Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
Salesforce Wins a Tax Authority Contract Worth Up to 2 Billion Pounds
Netflix Replaces Its Content Chief and Cuts Nearly a Thousand Jobs
Apple’s First Foldable Sold Out Its First Run in About 30 Minutes
Waymo Picks Toronto as Its Fourth Market Outside the United States
Google and Brussels Discuss Remedies for a 890 Million Euro Antitrust Bill
Google Adds CNN to Its News Licensing Deals and Passes 400 Partners
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…
Lyft to Pay $272.5 Million to Settle California Driver Case
For four years, Lyft treated the people who drove for its ride-hailing service as independent contractors rather than employees. On Wednesday, the company finally attached a number to that decision:…
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…
SoftBank Makes Its Final $10 Billion Payment to OpenAI
SoftBank Group said on October 1 that it had delivered the third and final $10 billion installment of its investment in OpenAI, completing a $30 billion commitment it made in…
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…
Google Puts Its AI Chips in Orbit, Testing a Solar-Powered Data Center
A Planet Labs satellite rode into low Earth orbit on October 1 aboard a SpaceX rideshare, carrying an unusual payload: a set of Google’s custom-built AI chips. The tensor processing…
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…
