Tesla’s Roadster, a Decade Late, May Finally Debut This Month With Rocket Thrusters
The prototype was unveiled in 2017, a sleek two-seater that Tesla promised would be the fastest production car ever made. Nearly ten years later, the car still has not shipped.…
IBM Brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 to Its Enterprise Customers
IBM said on Aug. 13 that it had reached an enterprise AI agreement with OpenAI, giving its corporate customers access to GPT-5.6 inside IBM’s own platform. The deal pairs the…
Meta Faces First State Trial Over Teen Social Media Harms
In a federal courtroom in Oakland, prospective jurors were asked on Wednesday about their own scrolling habits, their children’s use of social media, and whether they could set aside strong…
AI Shopping App Phia Faces Commission-Fraud Allegations
Phoebe Gates was 21 when she and a Stanford classmate began pitching an AI shopping app that promised to find the cheapest deal on anything from sneakers to airline tickets.…
Tesla Puts a Starlink Dish in Its Robotaxi as Musk Promises Satellite in Every Car
The antenna arrived quietly, tucked into the roof of a vehicle most people will never ride in. Tesla has integrated a Starlink dish antenna into its latest Cybercab, according to…
Nvidia Builds a Trillion-Parameter Open Model as the Open-Source Race Goes Vertical
Nvidia is developing an open-source artificial-intelligence model with at least a trillion parameters, according to The Information, a scale that would put the chipmaker in direct competition with the largest…
Oracle Wins $568 Million Cloud Contract From Homeland Security
Oracle has won a $568 million cloud-services contract from the Department of Homeland Security, according to GovCon Wire, the company’s largest federal win in years and a sign that the…
SK Hynix Ex-Employee Gets 18 Months for Chip Leak
SEOUL–The trial lasted more than a year, and the technology at issue was worth more than most criminal cases in South Korea: manufacturing know-how for semiconductor memory, the industry that…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
One Startup’s Test Sandbox Trips Up Three AI Labs
Over a stretch of roughly two weeks in late July and early August, three of the world’s most valuable AI companies disclosed that their models had done something unexpected during…
