Front Page Archive November 2026
Battery Tech1,085 words5 min read
Battery prices plunge to $108/kWh as ERCOT mandates grid-forming inverters by April 2026
Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 8% year-on-year to a record $108 per kilowatt-hour in 2025, according to BloombergNEF's 2025 Lithium-Ion Battery Price Survey released December 9, 2025. The price decline was driven by continued cell…
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Battery Tech
November 2026
Cloud & Edge Computing1,003 words5 min read
Cloud Providers Pull Back From New Regions as AI Clusters Eat the Power Grid
Cloud region launches have dropped from more than 40 in 2019 to 16 in 2025, according to TeleGeography data cited by analysts Jon Hjembo and Patrick Christian. The same data puts 2024 at 13…
Cybersecurity1,037 words5 min read
CISA Adds Three New Exploited CVEs to KEV Catalog as Patch Pressure Builds
CISA added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in the seven days ending November 8, 2026, bringing the month's total to 35 new KEV entries in 30 days…
Robotics & Drones1,040 words5 min read
Neura Robotics Raises $1.4 Billion to Push Cognitive Humanoids Into Factories
Neura Robotics, a German company founded in 2019, has closed a Series C round worth up to $1.4 billion. The investors include Nvidia, Amazon, Bosch, Qualcomm, Tether and the European…
Semiconductors1,035 words5 min read
TSMC Arizona Moves Second Fab Toward 3nm Production as Q3 Earnings Surge
TSMC Arizona has completed construction of its second fabrication plant in North Phoenix and entered tool move-in, with volume production of 3-nanometer chips slated to begin in the third…
EV1,023 words5 min read
Tesla's Semi Enters High-Volume Production in Nevada After Nine Years
Tesla said Wednesday that the first Semi truck rolled off its new high-volume production line at Gigafactory Nevada, ending nearly a decade of delays for the electric heavy-duty truck…
Battery Tech1,001 words5 min read
EV Battery Deployment Hits 1.2 TWh in 2025 as LFP Crosses 55% of the Market
EV battery deployment reached 1.2 TWh in 2025, up almost 30% from the prior year and more than seven times the 2020 level, according to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook…
IoT1,036 words5 min read
Matter in 2026: The Smart Home Standard Is Growing Up, But the Big Platforms Still Lag
Matter has gone from a handful of devices to more than 750 listed products in three years, yet the people who actually buy smart home gear still hit walls that the standard was supposed to…
AI1,437 words7 min read
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 Cuts Costs 40% and Runs Agents 30% Faster
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 this week, a model the company says runs agentic workloads 30% faster than its predecessor while costing 40% less per token. The release also claims…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,036 words5 min read
AI Inference Is Reshaping Where Data Centers Get Built
The global data center sector is on track to double in size by 2030, and the reason isn't training more models. It's serving them. JLL's 2026 Global Data Center Market Outlook puts new…