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Huawei launches Ascend 960 SuperPoD with NPO technology for AI scaling: At the HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 event, Huawei Deputy Chairman Ken Hu announced the Ascend 960 SuperPoD. The new system utilizes Near-Pool Optoelectronics (NPO) technology to address the computing power demands of scaling artificial intelligence models.

Hardware • TechNode

DeepCybo open-sources PhysBrain 1.5 physical foundation model: DeepCybo has open-sourced PhysBrain 1.5, an embodied physical foundation model available in 2B and 8B parameter sizes. The model achieved an average score of 72.5 across 28 public embodied benchmarks and features unified understanding, action, and future-state tokens alongside an evaluation kit.

DeepCybo • Pandaily

Light Origins open-sources LightNav-0 generalist navigation model: Light Origins has open-sourced LightNav-0, a generalist navigation model based on Qwen3-VL-4B. Trained via Real2Sim2Real on over 2,000 scenes and 4,000 hours of VLA data, the model leads 10 monocular navigation benchmarks and supports zero-shot body transfer.

AI Models • Pandaily

Researchers build Pareto atlas to optimize LLM inference configurations: Researchers have developed a cost, quality, and latency Pareto atlas to identify optimal LLM inference configurations under various deployment constraints. The team measured 54 configurations of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on vLLM across L4, A100, and H100 GPUs to calibrate a simulator.

Research • arXiv

Techmeme • Brain-Computer Interface

Brain-computer interface startups raise over $1B in 2026: According to PitchBook data, companies developing brain-computer interfaces have raised more than $1 billion in venture capital funding so far in 2026. This surge compares to a total of $1.56 billion raised by the sector in the previous four years combined.

NotebookLM

Indexing source titles in NotebookLM improves research quality

Claude

Developer builds anti-sycophancy prompt based on over 40 research papers