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The story is a preview of Toronto’s first road game of the season, against the Pacific-leading Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday, after the Maple Leafs split their first four home games.
OpenAI’s Codex GitHub repository lists a release labeled 0.162.0-alpha.17.1; no release notes or changes are provided in the text.
The Nantes Administrative Court of Appeal made final a 2025 Rennes court ruling that allows Renouvelables et Stockage’s battery storage project in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine, to proceed. The ruling found the grid-connected installation compatible with agricultural activity because forage production can continue on the rest of the land, but it does not create a blanket right to build batteries on farmland.
Tata Power and Norway’s Ocean Sun will test a 300 kWp membrane-based floating solar system at Tata Power’s Mulshi reservoir in Maharashtra. The pilot will compare its performance, installation, maintenance needs and costs with conventional floating solar systems to assess its suitability for wider use in India.
China’s National Energy Administration reported 163 million kWh of electricity use across highway charging facilities from October 1 to 7, up 51.42% in daily average terms year over year. Charging volume hit a holiday-period record of 28.05 million kWh on October 1, up 60.4%, across 62,700 monitored facilities.
Huawei-JAC luxury brand Maextro said it will redesign the V800’s brake-pedal bracket and offer current owners a free upgrade after Dongchedi reported that the brackets fractured in emergency braking tests on all three vehicles it tested. Maextro said it had seen no such failures among customers and described the tests as extreme, but pledged to strengthen its design validation and quality controls.
Alex Hobson argues the Maple Leafs should give Nick Blankenburg a chance in the lineup, likely in place of Troy Stecher. Blankenburg had 24 points in 61 games last season and, Hobson says, could improve Toronto’s puck movement and rush offense; the Leafs are 2-2-0 and have kept their defense lineup largely unchanged.
Former NHL coach Gerard Gallant said on Leafs Morning Take that Toronto prospect Gavin McKenna has the potential to become a superstar, while noting the high standard set by Mitch Marner. Gallant also discussed patience and communication with young players, drawing on his experience coaching Alexis Lafreniere.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, with rates five times higher above that; blogger Simon Willison notes its tokenizer uses about 25% more tokens than Haiku 4.5. Anthropic also halved Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices and announced monthly API credits of up to $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, and $500 pooled for Team subscribers; credits expire monthly.
GitHub says Copilot CLI version 1.0.94-0 can discover supported models from a running Ollama instance through the `/model` command. Users can review a model’s provider and endpoint before adding it for the session; Ollama and the model must already be installed, and models must support tool calling and streaming.
Antora Energy announced a 5.8GWh multi-day thermal energy storage project at Pratt Energy’s biorefinery in Pratt, Kansas. The announcement identifies the project site and capacity but gives no further details.
OpenAI released 722 manuscripts from an unreleased internal math model, covering 372 groups of results drawn from an evaluation of about 4,000 problems. The company says the work used roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute per result; commentators highlight a claimed quasi-Riemann hypothesis result, but the manuscripts and proofs have not been independently verified.
The page appears to be a short post by Simon Willison titled “llm-mistral 0.16,” tagged with LLM, Mistral and reasoning. The provided text contains no details about what changed in version 0.16.
Jefferson County Public Schools has put six IC electric school buses and six bidirectional chargers into service, with $3.4 million in support from Xcel Energy and fleet services from Highland Electric Fleets. The project will test how buses can store power and send it back to the grid when they are not in use.
The Athletic interviews Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander about his new teammate, long-term goals and turning 30. Nylander says he does not want to waste his best years with the team.
Leafs at Vegas, 10 PM ET: standings and form, projected lines (Bobrovsky likely vs. a confirmed Hill), Cowan vs. McKenna on L2, special teams and open questions.
TagEnergy has inaugurated its 240 MW/480 MWh battery at Cernay-lès-Reims, making it France’s largest operational battery storage project. The facility, built with 140 Tesla Megapacks, has returned 70.5 GWh to the grid in its first four months; Banque des Territoires owns a 49% stake, with TagEnergy retaining the majority.
Louis, co-founder of Armature, has launched Agent.reviews, a free site where AI coding agents can read and submit reviews of software tools through an npm CLI and agent skills. The service says it has collected thousands of reviews and uses three checks to filter secrets and personal information; examples include reports of Stripe SDK health-check crashes and Prisma requiring a database URL even when no connection is made.
Cherokee County, Iowa, supervisors voted 5–0 on Aug. 26 to replace a moratorium with rules allowing battery storage projects, clearing a path for the Smith family and Nomad Infrastructure to pursue an $80 million solar-and-battery installation. Supervisor Mark Bellefy argued the project could bring $60,000–$80,000 in annual tax revenue; safety workshops and input from the fire chief helped ease colleagues’ concerns.
Simon Willison argues that embedding models should be available under open licenses because replacing a discontinued proprietary model can force users to recalculate millions of stored vectors. He welcomes EmbeddingGemma 2’s Apache 2.0 license, which lets users rely on a hosted provider while retaining the option to run its open weights if hosting ends.
Voltix, a Vinci Concessions subsidiary, has opened a public electric-truck charging station in Vierzon, France, with four charging points rated at up to 1.5 MW each and CCS and MCS connectors. The site is planned to expand to eight points; Voltix aims to build 50 sites by 2028 as part of a network backed by nearly €90 million in investment.
Maple Leafs coach Jim Hiller said Anthony Stolarz will start Tuesday against Nashville, his second start of the season, because it was his turn under a rotation plan the team has mapped out. Stolarz stopped 96.3% of shots in his previous start, a win over the Islanders; Sergei Bobrovsky has lost both of his starts since joining Toronto.
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an image-generation and editing model powered by Gemini 3.6 Flash, with claimed improvements to image quality, text rendering, consistency and editing. Its 1K image price is 3.36 cents—about half the previous model’s price—and it is rolling out across Google products, including Gemini, Search and AI Studio.
Developer Lowenbjer released Terse, an open-source Claude Code plugin that applies writing rules to trim replies and remove stylistic habits such as slogans, metaphors, and first-person narration. Its benchmarks report 46–54% fewer words and 32–51% lower costs on selected tests, though results vary by model and prompt set.
Chile’s Environmental Assessment Service approved Sidon Solar, a project by Sidon Solar SpA, established by Trina Solar Systems (Chile), with 158.17 MWdc of solar generation and 1,296 MWh of battery storage. The $100 million project in Biobío and Ñuble regions will deliver up to 150 MW for five hours through a 5.7 km transmission line and is expected to take 24 months to build.
Dutch battery storage developer Giga Storage says its 1.4GWh project in Germany has reached ready-to-build status. The update follows the start of construction on the company’s 2.8GWh battery energy storage system in Belgium.
OpenAI introduced the Decisions API in public beta, a tool that returns yes/no probabilities, category choices or ratings for text and images, and says it runs about 10 times faster than its Responses API. It currently supports gpt-6-luna at $0.10 per million input tokens, and OpenAI also reduced its paid API tiers to Build, Launch and Grow.
The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi introduced Falcon-ASR, a 1.6-billion-parameter speech recognition model focused on Arabic, especially Emirati, that also supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. TII reports a 20.92% average word error rate across six Arabic benchmarks—below the best published result it compared against—and 22.73% on its internal Emirati evaluation.
Xiaomi Auto said its Sky Nomad extended-range EV lineup received more than 70,000 locked-in orders from September 7 to October 7, its first month on sale; the company did not provide a breakdown by model. The lineup delivered more than 10,000 vehicles in September, contributing to Xiaomi Auto’s monthly deliveries exceeding 40,000.
