• October 13, 2026
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U.S. Regulators Weigh a Petition on Robotaxi Speeding in Austin School Zones

The complaint arrived in late September, with video attached. A petition filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alleged that Tesla’s robotaxis in Austin exceeded posted speed limits in…

  • October 13, 2026
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Palantir Executive Says the Pentagon Has Already Replaced Anthropic’s Models

Shyam Sankar did not hesitate. Asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” what happened at the Pentagon when Anthropic’s models were pulled, Palantir’s chief technology officer gave a one-line answer. “It’s…

  • October 13, 2026
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OpenAI Adds 200 Jobs in Dublin and a Second Applied AI Lab for Europe

OpenAI said Monday that it will add about 200 jobs in Dublin, deepening a bet on a European headquarters it opened three years ago and attaching a second applied AI…

  • October 13, 2026
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S&P Lifts Kioxia to Investment Grade as Memory Prices Climb

For most of its short life as a separate company, Kioxia Holdings was the debt-heavy remnant of Toshiba’s memory business, carrying debt from a buyout and the memory industry’s habit…

  • October 13, 2026
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xAI Puts Grok, Cursor and X Premium on One Bill

Three products, three subscriptions, one company that would rather sell a single monthly payment. xAI introduced The X Subscription on October 12, folding Grok, Grok Bot, the Cursor code editor…

  • October 13, 2026
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Netflix Buys the 2030 World Cup in Spain and Andorra

Netflix has spent three years buying live sport in pieces, and on October 13 it bought the largest piece of soccer it has ever held. The streaming company reached an…

  • October 13, 2026
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Bumble Agrees to a $1.3 Billion Buyout as Paying Users Keep Falling

Bumble, which went public in 2021 as the app that made women send the first message, will go private at a fraction of that valuation. The company said on October…

  • October 13, 2026
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Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 With Disney as Its Opening Bidder

Character.AI, the startup that persuaded millions of people to spend their evenings talking with invented characters, asked a Delaware court for bankruptcy protection on October 12, and the sale that…

  • October 13, 2026
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AMD Wins Europe’s First Commercial AI Supercomputer

Scaleway, the cloud arm of French telecom group Iliad, said Tuesday that it will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden running AMD Instinct MI355X chips, the first AMD-based machine of…

  • October 13, 2026
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Nvidia Puts $2 Billion Into Europe, Starting With a Doctor’s Appointment

Jensen Huang said this week that Nvidia will commit roughly $2 billion to European artificial intelligence companies within days, on top of $8 billion the chipmaker has deployed in the…