Waymo to Launch Robotaxi Service in Munich in 2027
The first Waymo vehicles will appear on Munich’s streets in the coming weeks, at first with trained drivers at the wheel, mapping the city’s roads and testing its traffic patterns.…
AWS Commits to Two Million More Nvidia GPUs
The announcement arrived in the middle of Nvidia Corp.’s earnings call, a few sentences from Amazon’s cloud division that rewrote the day’s narrative. Amazon Web Services will add another two…
HP Profit Rises on Tariff Refund as PC Shipments Slip
The line item sat near the bottom of the release, easy to miss: eleven cents of HP Inc.’s adjusted earnings per share came from tariff refunds. Strip that out, and…
Intel Details Xeon 7 “Diamond Rapids”: 256 Cores and 1.28GB of Cache
On Aug. 26, Intel published the full specifications of its next-generation Xeon 7 server processor, code-named Diamond Rapids, a chip with up to 256 performance cores, 16 compute tiles, and…
Tesla Raises Cybertruck Prices by $5,000
Tesla has increased the price of both versions of the Cybertruck by $5,000, Reuters reported on Aug. 25, a move that pushes the angular pickup deeper into luxury territory even…
IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories
On Aug. 26, IBM said it has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, the research institution jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, adding a storied name in quantum computing,…
AWS Acquires DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
On Aug. 26, Amazon’s cloud unit announced it has acquired DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the open-source analytics database that has become one of the most popular tools in…
SpaceX’s $100 Billion Bet on the Louisiana Coast
The gravel roads around Pecan Island, a low strip of marsh and fishing camps on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, usually lead to boats, not rockets. On Aug. 25, they led to…
Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement With 29 States
The papers landed at state attorneys general offices around the same time the afternoon news cycle turned to back-to-school. After more than a year of closed-door negotiations, Meta Platforms agreed…
Tesla to Open Nevada Semi Factory Next Month
The trucks will start rolling off the line in September. Tesla plans to begin operations at its new electric heavy-truck factory in Nevada next month, according to an Electrek report…