Lufthansa said flight LH419 from Washington, D.C., was the final scheduled commercial flight of its last Airbus A340-600, ending 23 years of the type’s service with the airline. The aircraft landed in Frankfurt on 19 October.
Maersk announced completion of what it described as the world’s largest ethanol bunkering operation in Singapore. The operation marks a step in the carrier’s use of alternative marine fuels and was carried out at the port.
MiniMax announced the M3.1 Flash model for agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. The company says online inference is nearly three times faster and usage costs are 70% lower than its comparison baseline.
A preprint presents SIXPPAC, a mixed-signal machine-learning engine for real-time integrated sensing and communication in wireless baseband. Its design combines two successive-approximation ADCs with a six-layer digital binary-weight neural network.
The preprint studies local serving of smartphone graphical-interface agents using hybrid linear-attention models on mobile neural processing units. Such agents repeatedly inspect a screen and choose an action, so inference delay can accumulate across steps.
A preprint examines combinations of shared scales, weights and activations in MX-like low-precision formats for large language model inference. The researchers jointly explore model accuracy and estimated silicon trade-offs when integrating a tensor core with an edge neural processing unit.
The EU agency CINEA invited Neo Performance Materials to prepare a grant agreement for a planned rare-earth separation, metal and magnet-making expansion in Estonia.
The study describes a generic workflow for developing, deploying and orchestrating AI on Earth-observation satellites. Onboard processing can turn large image collections into smaller outputs such as masks or detections before data are downlinked.
The authors describe an optical transmitter built around thin-film lithium tantalate, aimed at moving data between computing chips with less reliance on power-hungry electrical links. The design combines multiple wavelengths to raise channel capacity while limiting the number of lasers and fibres.
PepsiCo announced Pepsi Vanilla & Cream and Pepsi Zero Sugar Vanilla & Cream, a limited-time US product launch combining vanilla and cream flavors. The products became available nationwide on 19 October.
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