AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Nvidia Seeks a Patent for a Chatbot That Tunes Games
Buried in the United States patent office is a document that describes a developer typing a plain question into a chat window and getting back working code. The question might…
New Mexico Jury Finds Meta Violated Consumer Law 43.9 Million Times
The number at the bottom of the jury form is the one lawyers on both sides will study for months. After reviewing 26 public statements by Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg…
New Jersey Fines a Data Center Over 62 Unpermitted Generators
When state inspectors visited the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, in December 2025, they saw no power generators. When they returned on July 29, the site was running…
Netflix Rebuilds Gene Wilder’s Voice, and Critics Wince
Rusty Goffe played an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and five decades later he found himself on a new set listening to his old…
IonQ to Install First Quantum Processor at NVIDIA Center
The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center in Boston was built to pair quantum processors with supercomputers. It now has its first tenant. IonQ said its Superion 256, a 256-qubit machine,…
Tesla Semi Finally Reaches High-Volume Production in Nevada
The trucks sat in a row on the Nevada desert, their doors already bearing the names of customers. On Sept. 24, Elon Musk stood before them at a factory east…
New York Sues Polymarket Over Prediction Contracts
For nearly two years, the question New York’s attorney general put to a court on Sept. 24 has been the same question Polymarket asks its users every day: what happens…
Comma’s Hands-Off Driving Draws a Federal Investigation
The device is a small box with a camera that sits behind the windshield and takes over the steering. Its maker promised to “make driving chill.” Federal regulators now want…
Microsoft Cuts About 500 Jobs in Latest Xbox Shake-Up
Matt Booty, the executive in charge of Xbox’s games and studios, opened a memo to staff on Tuesday with a subject line that summed up the moment: continuing the reset.…
