California Puts a Price on Robotaxis That Block First Responders
A driverless taxi that stops in the middle of an emergency scene now carries a specific cost in California: up to $10,000. Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1246 on October…
Samsung Raises Galaxy S26 Prices by $100, Citing Memory Costs
The price of Samsung’s newest flagship phone went up before most customers ever held one. On October 1, the company raised prices across the Galaxy S26 line by roughly $100…
Tesla Cuts AI5, AI6 Memory to Make Room for Optimus
Elon Musk announced the change the way he announces most things: in a short post on X. “We cut our RAM in half for the Tesla AI5 chip (now 72GB…
Palantir Names Armada Its First Modular Data Center Partner
Palantir Technologies has spent years selling governments and companies on the idea that they should control their own data and the models built on it. On October 1, the company…
Dell and Japan’s JERA Plan a $15 Billion AI Data Center
The power station sits in Chiba, near Tokyo, burning fuel to generate electricity for Japan’s biggest power company. Next to it, three companies now plan to build a data center…
Microsoft’s Office and Research Chiefs Head for the Exit
Ryan Roslansky spent nearly two decades climbing through LinkedIn and Microsoft, first as the professional network’s chief product officer, then as its chief executive, and most recently as the executive…
New Mexico Asks a Judge to Hit Meta With Up to $40 Billion
New Mexico asked a judge on October 1 to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion over the way Facebook handled its users’ data, sharpening the…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Carries a Spy Satellite for the First Time
Late on the night of October 1, the most powerful rocket in SpaceX’s operating fleet cleared the tower at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A and carried a classified national-security payload…
LG Adds a Virginia Chiller Plant to Ride the AI Data-Center Boom
LG Electronics built its name selling televisions and washing machines to households. On Wednesday it placed a bet on a very different customer — the companies racing to build the…
DoorDash Air’s Drone Starts on the Ground
Harrison Shih runs a drone program at DoorDash where the aircraft came last. The head of the company’s new air-delivery service spent the early work on packaging, loading systems and…
