John Ternus, Apple's former SVP of Hardware Engineering, officially
took over as CEO from Tim Cook, and used his first staff memo to
hype


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HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES

NEW CEO JOHN TERNUS TEASES "HUGE LAUNCH NEXT WEEK" IN FIRST STAFF
MEMO (2 MINUTE READ) [5]

John Ternus, Apple's former SVP of Hardware Engineering, officially
took over as CEO from Tim Cook, and used his first staff memo to hype
the company's September 9 iPhone event, rumored to unveil Apple's
first foldable iPhone alongside a broader Siri overhaul positioning it
against ChatGPT and Claude. Ternus, a hardware-first executive taking
the helm at a pivotal product moment, also teased a longer pipeline
beyond next week, with camera-equipped AirPods, smart glasses, and a touchscreen laptop all reportedly in development.

CXMT REPORTEDLY BEGINS RISK PRODUCTION OF HBM3E, TARGETING MASS
PRODUCTION IN 2027 (4 MINUTE READ) [6]

CXMT has reportedly started risk production of HBM3E, a generation
behind the HBM4 that Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix are already mass
producing, but a meaningful jump for a company that only recently
began mass-producing standard DRAM at competitive nodes. HBM is
substantially harder to manufacture than ordinary DRAM, requiring
high-yield die stacking, through-silicon vias, fine interconnects,
thermal management, and packaging on top of competitive dies
themselves, so reaching even a risk-production milestone signals
China's memory ecosystem advancing past commodity DRAM.

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ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS

SERAPHIM SPACE INVESTS $30M IN SATELLITE BLUETOOTH FIRM HUBBLE
NETWORK (3 MINUTE READ) [7]

Seraphim Space Investment Trust committed $30 million to Hubble
Network, a company operating a low Earth orbit satellite constellation
that connects directly to off-the-shelf Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
chips. This architecture enables global connectivity and asset
monitoring without requiring cellular towers, ground gateways, or
specialized satellite modems. For builders, direct-to-satellite
Bluetooth offers an ultra-low-power, cost-effective telemetry solution
for tracking and managing distributed field hardware across remote
regions.

QUALCOMM UNVEILS DRAGONWING Q-2390 AND IQ-2390 TO PUSH AI INTO
CHEAPER EDGE DEVICES (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

Qualcomm unveiled two new Dragonwing processors aimed at bringing
on-device AI, vision, and connectivity to product categories that have historically struggled with cost, power, and size constraints. The
Q-2390 targets consumer and commercial gear like retail kiosks, smart appliances, home robots, and fitness equipment, integrating
application compute, on-device AI, camera and display support, and LTE connectivity onto a single chip.

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RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES

ATLAS: A WORLD MODEL FOR SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE (5 MINUTE READ) [9]

Atlas is an omni world model and multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer designed to generate, reconstruct, and simulate
interactive 3D environments from text, images, and video. The model
natively handles spatial and camera context to synthesize novel views, reconstruct scenes into 3D Gaussian splats, and model dynamic scene interactions over time. Atlas unlocks scalable "Real-to-Sim" workflows
by creating realistic synthetic sensor streams (RGB-D) and interactive
physical environments from simple video captures, significantly
reducing the cost and complexity of training navigation and
manipulation policies.

HYDRA-0: ACTION FLOW FOR GENERALIST WORLD MODELING AND CONTROL (7
MINUTE READ) [10]

Hydra-0 is a generalist world model that translates physical robot
commands into pixel motion trajectories termed "action flow".
Operating as a hybrid simulator, it pairs physics engines for robot
kinematics with a learned generative video model to predict complex
scene reactions like deformable materials and fluid interactions. This
shared visual abstraction eliminates the need for custom coordinate
remapping across different embodiments, making cross-platform policy
training and sim-to-real evaluation significantly more efficient.

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MISCELLANEOUS

AUTONOMOUS-UAV: SIM-FIRST ROS 2 AUTONOMY STACK FOR INDOOR
PERSON-FOLLOWING DRONE (5 MINUTE READ) [11]

This open-source repository provides a simulation-first ROS 2
autonomy stack for an indoor person-following drone, utilizing Gazebo simulation and an ArduPilot Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) digital twin
before physical deployment. The architecture integrates vision-based
perception models for person detection with flight-control pipelines
to handle autonomous tracking and indoor navigation. This project
offers a clear reference implementation for designing, simulating, and validating vision-in-the-loop flight control workflows before testing
on physical airframe hardware.

NVIDIA LAYS OUT WHAT A RISC-V CPU NEEDS TO RUN CUDA AND JOIN NVLINK
FUSION (5 MINUTE READ) [12]

At Hot Chips 2026, Nvidia detailed the requirements a RISC-V CPU must
meet to become a full host processor for its CUDA and NVLink Fusion
platforms, alongside its existing x86 and Arm support. For CUDA,
Nvidia points to RVA23 profile compliance and the RISC-V Boot and
Runtime Services spec to guarantee software binary compatibility
across different RISC-V chips, plus hardware-level PCIe I/O coherence
and peer-to-peer GPU communication so data can move directly between
host and device memory without unnecessary cache flushes or extra
copies.

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QUICK LINKS

RESHAPING THE PHYSICAL WORLD: GRAVIS ROBOTICS RAISES $200M FOR
CONSTRUCTION AUTONOMY (3 MINUTE READ) [13]

Gravis Robotics secured $200 million in Series A funding from
SoftBank to scale its hardware and software autonomy kits for heavy construction equipment.

RESERVOIR ANNOUNCES $10 MILLION MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN
DEERE TO ACCELERATE RUGGED AI FOR AGRICULTURE (3 MINUTE READ) [14]

Reservoir, an early-stage agricultural robotics incubator, announced
a three-year, $10 million R&D partnership with John Deere to
fast-track the field development and commercialization of rugged AI
for specialty crop farming.

LEROBOT ROS 2 ZENOH INTEGRATION (5 MINUTE READ) [15]

This repository bridges the LeRobot framework with ROS 2 by
leveraging the ultra-fast Zenoh communication protocols.

NAV2 LYRICAL RELEASE (7 MINUTE READ) [16]

Nav2, the team behind one of the most widely used robot navigation
stacks, released a major update for ROS 2 Lyrical with new navigation
tools, performance upgrades, smoother path planning, and better
overall mobility for autonomous systems.

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