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Meta is partnering with ESPN to offer select live, 180-degree immersive college football games all season via Quest's TV app, with the first game kicking off October 10th featuring the Texas Longhorns. Meta says 100+ live sporting events are planned around the Meta VR Glasses release next spring.

Romanian company PhotoVoltaic Windows SRL has found an intriguing application for photovoltaic glass in apartments: heating domestic water. The approach is presented as a case study from Bucharest, with limited further details provided.

Intilion has partnered with CATL for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe, following a similar move by Alfen in July. Merus Power is also in the process of integrating with the OEM’s new product.

EUPD Research analyst Ali Arfa told pv magazine that China's dominance of the global battery supply chain is unlikely to change significantly over the next two years. He expects rising inventories to put pressure on residential and C&I storage prices in Europe, while utility-scale battery prices should remain broadly stable.

Researchers have uncovered a new way bacteria detect viral attacks: a virus-produced enzyme cuts a bacterial sensor protein, triggering a self-destructing immune response. The discovery could lead to more effective phage therapies against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and offers insight into ancient immune mechanisms shared with humans.

PowerChina has completed grid connection of a 1 GW hybrid solar project in Qinghai province, China. The facility combines 900 MW of solar PV with a 100 MW concentrated solar power plant featuring eight hours of molten-salt thermal storage and a 20 MW electric heater to store surplus PV electricity.

Finland is currently the Nordic region's most-talked-about battery storage market, with project deals and other development activity from local and international players, according to the report. It rounds up acquisition, construction and optimisation news involving Usva Energia, Nala Renewables, Centrica and Olana Energy.

An MIT Technology Review commentary argues that people may be placing too much faith in AI's ability to say no. It notes that science fiction has long depicted robotic disobedience, with most such stories serving as cautionary tales.

Cevotec has appointed Korean composite specialist KCompositeLab (KCLab) as its sales partner for South Korea. KCLab will represent Cevotec's SAMBA robotic lamination equipment and support manufacturers of aerostructures and composite pressure vessels with local application engineering.

RobotPlusPlus, an engineering-led developer of working-at-height robots, is extending automation across industrial maintenance with its HighMate Series for industrial cleaning and corrosion control, led by the HighMate AP-F-CO Coating Robot+VOC Recovery System. The systems, presented at SMM 2026 in Hamburg, are intended to cut workers' exposure to hazardous work at height while improving cleaning and surface-treatment efficiency.

Monolithos has launched a public alpha of Robot Brain, a long-term memory and experience system designed to let robots and embodied AI systems retain information from previous tasks and use it in future operations. The system is designed to preserve task histories, including failures, human corrections and subsequent outcomes.

Apple's visionOS 27 release notes list this as a known issue: on Vision Pro, toggling between 2D and Spatial views of a large panorama image over 300MB might cause the Photos application to unexpectedly quit. Apple's workaround involves a conversion step for the asset.

FireDome, an autonomous wildfire resilience company, announced the launch of its US operations, anchored by a demonstration site at Yuba County Airport. Located in a wildfire risk-prone area, the site provides real-world conditions to validate its system as the company prepares for commercial deployment.

According to OpenAI, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests by using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, aiming to offer customers more capable models; the headline references GPT-6.1 Sol.

A recent IEA report said a 35% global electrification target by 2035 is in 'striking distance' thanks to commercial technologies like electric vehicles and battery storage, while electrification of heat-dependent industry sits outside that target. Thermal energy storage can deliver industrial heat and may also play a role in the broader grid system.

Google has opened SynthID Detector worldwide in English, letting anyone upload an image, video, or audio file to check whether it carries an AI watermark the tool can read. It detects Google's own mark plus those of OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, and Google says Apple support is coming.

Norway's government has proposed a temporary ban on using AI glasses in places such as parks, bathing beaches and museums while it works out a permanent law. The Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration published the proposal, but its press release lists two different sets of places the ban might cover.