• July 2, 2026
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Regulator Closes Four-Year Probe Into Tesla Phantom Braking

The reports began arriving in 2021, and by early 2022 the U.S. government’s auto-safety regulator had collected roughly 300 complaints about a troubling pattern: Tesla vehicles slowing down suddenly, for…

  • July 2, 2026
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Scientists Assemble a Cell From Scratch, Bringing Synthetic Life a Step Closer

The announcement came not from a biology conference but from a university press release, and it described something no lab had demonstrated before: a cell built entirely from non-living chemical…

  • July 2, 2026
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Near-Eye Display Market Set to Recover in 2026 as AR Glasses Take Off

After a year that pushed the market to its lowest point in recent memory, the makers of the tiny displays that sit inside virtual and augmented reality headsets are expecting…

  • July 2, 2026
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Micron Chief Takes Aim at Bargain-Hunting Memory Buyers

The complaint, delivered in the careful language of a CEO who knows every word will be parsed, was aimed at an unnamed customer, and no one in the industry had…

  • July 2, 2026
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SoftBank Plans U.S. AI Cloud Push With 10 Gigawatts of Data Centers

The plan, according to people familiar with it, has been in preparation for months, and it is audacious even by SoftBank standards: build an American cloud business from scratch, rent…

  • July 2, 2026
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U.S. Nears Voluntary Safety Standards for Frontier AI Models

The officials and the executives had been meeting for weeks in Washington, and by Thursday an outline had finally taken shape: the government would not impose binding rules, and the…

  • July 2, 2026
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Amazon Builds Custom Chips for Echo and Fire TV as AI Moves Into the Device

The device that sits on millions of kitchen counters is about to get a new brain. Amazon’s top hardware executive said this week that the company is focused on building…

  • July 2, 2026
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ASML Lifts Revenue Outlook as AI Chipmakers Race for EUV Machines

The executives gathered in Veldhoven on Thursday to deliver news that the company’s own order book had already signaled for months: demand for the world’s most advanced chip-making machines is…

  • July 2, 2026
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Amazon’s Kuiper Constellation Nears Completion as Atlas V Makes Its Final Flight

The last Atlas V rocket in United Launch Alliance’s fleet lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday morning with 29 Amazon satellites tucked inside, and by the afternoon ULA confirmed…

  • July 2, 2026
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OpenAI Engineers Say Running Its Models Now Costs Half as Much

The internal message went out on a Monday morning, unsigned and free of fanfare: OpenAI’s engineers had found a way to run the company’s models for half the price. By…