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Munich-based DeepDrive says it has been selected as a mass-production supplier for an unnamed global automaker, with production of its dual-rotor electric drive system due to start in 2028. The company did not disclose the vehicle, order volume or production site, and is establishing a Shanghai team as it expands into China.
Nick Ashbourne and Anthony Petrielli assess the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2-2-0 start in the first MLHS podcast of the 2026-27 season. They discuss early performances by Auston Matthews, Kirill Marchenko, John Tavares and Gavin McKenna, coach Jim Hiller’s lineup choices, the blue line and questions facing the team on an upcoming road trip.
Matthew Knies said his trade from Toronto to Columbus in a package for Kirill Marchenko came as a surprise, despite months of trade rumors and the Maple Leafs’ need for changes. The 23-year-old forward, who had 66 points last season, said he was sad to leave his teammates but has felt welcomed by the Blue Jackets; he opened his Columbus stint with four points in two games.
Toronto erased a 3–0 second-period deficit and beat Nashville 5–4 in OT on Matthews' goal, out-shooting the Predators 37–25 overall.
The Athletic’s James Mirtle says Toronto is unlikely to acquire Carolina’s Alexander Nikishin or Detroit’s Simon Edvinsson, citing high trade costs, contract demands above $9 million and salary-cap constraints. He says the Maple Leafs’ aging, injury-prone blue line remains a weakness, and general manager John Chayka may pursue a less prominent defenseman instead.
Google DeepMind researchers Sahil Dua and Henrique Schechter Vera announced EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter model that embeds text, code, images, video and audio in a shared space for on-device search and retrieval. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it supports an 8K-token context and can use as little as 191MB of active RAM for text-only inference; Google says its code benchmark score rose from 68.76 to 78.68 compared with the first EmbeddingGemma.
Mistral has released a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a Europe-trained model with about one trillion parameters; its weights are expected at the end of October. It scored 38 on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index, below Claude Opus 5.5’s 58, while Mistral highlights cybersecurity testing where the model reproduces and patches vulnerabilities—tasks it says rivals Claude and GPT-6 refuse.
The Leafs Nation argues that Toronto should rethink John Tavares’ role after the first three games of the season, saying he looks a step behind while centering William Nylander and rookie Gavin McKenna and playing on the top power-play unit. The piece notes Tavares won just 35% of his faceoffs Saturday and suggests moving him to wing and giving McKenna a chance on the top unit.
Anthropic’s Claude Code guide explains cloud sessions, which run coding tasks in separate fresh virtual machines and branches, allowing work to continue while a user’s computer is offline and multiple tasks to run in parallel. It demonstrates the feature with three concurrent fixes in a sample repository and covers setup, GitHub access, security, and workflows; Pro and Max subscribers could also claim one-time cloud-session credits of $100 and $250, respectively, by October 7.
SemiAnalysis, in a study by Andrew Megalaa, Max Kan and Dylan Patel, says Anthropic subscriptions provide roughly four to five times the API-equivalent value of OpenAI’s for comparable mid-tier models. The analysis also finds that OpenAI halved limits on its $200 plan and that its new $500 plan offers only 21% more Astra usage than the former $200 plan.
Reflection has launched Beam, a text-only, 501-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 23 billion active parameters, trained from scratch for coding, agentic and scientific tasks. The company says training used 23.8 trillion tokens and reports an 80.9 score on SWE-bench Verified; it plans to release the full weights under Apache 2.0 this month.
Transport & Environment (T&E) predicts sales in Europe of battery-electric cars priced at €25,000 or less will be seven times higher in 2026 than in 2024, as more affordable models reach the market. T&E reports 1.64 million battery EVs were sold in the first eight months of 2026, up 45% from the same period in 2025; nearly 40 new models launched in the first half, with about 60 expected by year-end.
GitHub says Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 is generally available in Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users, with a gradual rollout across supported IDEs, GitHub.com, mobile and Copilot tools. GitHub says early tests found it matched Claude Sonnet 5 on many coding tasks while using fewer tokens and steps; usage is billed at provider list prices.
Galileo has secured consent in Italy for two 125 MW battery storage projects: one with 1,000 MWh of capacity (eight hours) and one with 500 MWh (four hours), located in the North and Centre-South market zones. The Zurich-based developer expects consent for about 100 MW more in the coming weeks; its Italy managing director says longer-duration batteries offer flexibility across procurement auctions and private offtake deals.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with “Intelligent UI,” which can turn answers into interactive charts, forms, buttons and small in-chat tools rather than mostly text. The company says GPT-6 can also answer while it is still reasoning, cutting wait times by 44 percent; the rollout begins with paid plans, followed by free and Go users the next day.
The Maple Leafs rallied from a 3-0 deficit against Nashville, with Jack Roslovic tying the game and Auston Matthews scoring the overtime winner after Easton Cowan helped break up several dangerous chances. The recap says Toronto’s penalty kill and early play were poor, but late line changes and a strong push helped secure the win.
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight German-English model with 78 billion parameters, about three billion active per token, and a context window of up to one million tokens. The company says it is designed for public administration, aviation, and industry, was trained on GPUs in Germany and Finland, and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model for coding, enterprise work, and cybersecurity with state-of-the-art performance on 13 of 19 benchmarks and an industry-leading 1M-token output limit, though it is currently available only to government users and trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program. The model is priced at $4/$20 per million input/output tokens with a 50% introductory discount, and internal tests show it outperforms competitors like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on tasks like code migration and software engineering challenges.
Mitchell Hashimoto has proposed OSC 7501, a terminal-native protocol that lets programs report whether they are idle, working, finished, blocked, or failed, with optional progress and message details. He says the format could replace screen-reading heuristics and app-specific APIs used by tools such as agent inboxes, and reports prototype implementations in Ghostty, Rex, Terraform, Claude Code, Codex, and Homebrew.
Mazda has launched the China-built CX-6e electric SUV in Australia, with GT and Azami versions priced from A$56,990 and A$59,990 on the road in Victoria. The review says it shares its Changan EPA1 platform with the Deepal S07 but has Mazda-designed bodywork and interior and Mazda-tuned suspension; its 78kWh battery delivers a claimed 468km WLTP range. The author found it comfortable and capable, while criticizing the oversized infotainment screen and Azami’s digital mirrors, and recommends the cheaper GT.
The passage describes Toronto’s 3-2 loss to Ottawa: Auston Matthews and Kirill Marchenko scored in the second period, but the Leafs hit several posts and couldn’t hold the lead. Coach Hiller praised the team’s defensive work except in the third period.
GitHub says a Copilot SDK change caused some agent sessions in newer IDE versions to go unattributed, undercounting agent activity and lines of code in usage reports; some activity was instead counted as Copilot CLI use. A fix is available in Visual Studio Code 1.139.0 and later, with updates for Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode expected by November 2026; missing data cannot be recovered, and billing was unaffected.
GitHub says local sandboxing is generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and VS Code sessions using Agent Host, at no extra cost. Powered by Microsoft eXecution Container, it applies developer- or organization-defined limits to agent tools’ access to files, networks, and credentials across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Fraunhofer IEG and the Post-Mining Research Center at Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences have signed an agreement to research mine-water geothermal energy in Germany. They aim to develop practical guidelines, standards and training, while assessing technical, ecological, legal and economic issues around using flooded mines for heating or cooling.
Liquid AI released two open-weight decision models: d1-3B, which handles text and images, and experimental d1-omni-600M, which accepts text with images or audio. The company says d1-3B scores 82.9 on its seven-dataset benchmark and answers a question in 16–50 ms on tested NVIDIA Jetson edge devices; d1-omni-600M scores 78.4, with speed figures not yet reported.
An Electrive test drive of Leapmotor’s B03X found a spacious, well-equipped small electric SUV with a 130- or 145-kW motor, priced from €25,400 in Germany. The reviewer praised its passenger room, practical storage and strong performance for the price, but noted its limited 292–382 km WLTP range, light steering, basic materials and cumbersome charging-route planning.
The Athletic’s 2026 NHL Player Tiers report highlights players whose evaluations have risen, including Macklin Celebrini, Matthew Schaefer and Kirill Marchenko. It quotes one evaluator predicting this will be the last season Celebrini is anything below a top-tier “1A” player.
NVIDIA says its Nemotron models achieved gold-level results at IMO 2026 and IOI 2026 using fine-tuning and generate-verify-refine inference systems. The IMO system scored 30/42, above the 29-point gold threshold; the IOI system scored 535.4/600, above the gold threshold and the top human score, but its run was unofficial and excluded from the rankings.
Reports say German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to seek a further easing of EU car CO₂ limits, beyond the European Commission’s proposed 90% reduction by 2035; with compensation options, the reduction could be as low as 80%. In exchange, Germany would back stricter “Made in Europe” rules for the automotive industry, while the reported deal also seeks more flexibility on the 2030 target. The agreement is not final, and EU Parliament and member-state approval is still required.
Broadcaster Chris Cuthbert urged patience with the Toronto Maple Leafs after their first three games, saying Gavin McKenna’s approach to optional skates is not a concern and backing the McKenna–John Tavares–William Nylander line to improve. On Leafs Morning Take, David Pagnotta also said Toronto is unlikely to acquire defensemen Alex Nikishin or Simon Edvinsson because the team appears reluctant to trade Easton Cowan.
