Tesla Lines Up a $30 Billion Credit Facility for Cybercab and Optimus
For years Tesla presented itself as the automaker that did not need banks. It raised money by selling shares and cars, kept a cash pile large enough to fund its…
Apple’s New Chief Moves to Speed the Product Cycle
John Ternus has run Apple for less than a month, and he is already testing how much of the company’s machinery he can move. The changes, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark…
Tesla Delays the Roadster Reveal Again, This Time on Weather
The Tesla Roadster has been delayed by engineering, by supply chains, and by a company that keeps finding more pressing things to build. This week, the culprit was simpler: the…
Apple Patches a Zero-Day Flaw It Says Was Used in Targeted Attacks
The update landed quietly, the way Apple’s emergency security fixes usually do: a short advisory, a list of affected systems, and a terse warning that a flaw “may have been…
Starship Makes Its Orbital Debut, Deploying 26 Starlink Satellites
The rocket cleared the pad at Starbase on the Texas coast on the morning of September 28 and kept climbing until, for the first time in the program’s history, it…
TSMC Is Said to Study a Second U.S. Base, With Dallas on the List
Taiwan Economic Daily reported on September 29, citing supply chain sources, that TSMC is evaluating a second U.S. manufacturing base that could hold as many as six advanced fabs, with…
Microsoft Says Surface Won’t Chase Apple’s Cheap MacBook
Brett Ostrum fielded the question the way an executive does when the answer was decided long before the question was asked. Would Microsoft build a cheap Surface laptop to answer…
NASA Keeps Boeing’s Starliner in the Fleet, but Not for Astronauts
The announcement was tucked inside the kind of statement NASA issues when it wants a hard decision to read as routine. On September 28, the agency said it would keep…
European Unions and Activists Call for an End to Palantir’s Public Contracts
Palantir Technologies has spent two years turning European governments into some of its fastest-growing customers, selling the same data-analysis software it built for U.S. intelligence agencies to police forces, health…
ASML Chief Says Only One Company Can Build the Machines Chips Depend On
Every leading-edge chip factory in the world depends on a single company for its most important piece of equipment, and that company’s chief executive says the situation is not about…
