Applied Materials Plans a $5 Billion Lab to Halve Chip Development Time
The most expensive equipment inside a semiconductor factory is the machinery that makes the chips. Applied Materials wants to build a facility whose product is neither. The company, the largest…
Figma Pushes Its Design Rules Into the Hands of AI Agents
Figma used its first conference in India on October 14 to introduce a set of tools aimed less at designers than at the software agents now writing code alongside them,…
YouTube Labels AI Music as Deezer Lets Listeners Filter It
YouTube began attaching labels to AI-generated music on October 14, and Deezer said the same day that it will give listeners a switch to remove that music from their results,…
SK Hynix Offers a U.S. Plant in Return for China Equipment Approval
SK Hynix has proposed building a new factory in the United States in exchange for Washington’s approval to ship American chipmaking equipment to its plant in China, according to a…
Nvidia Would Halt Chip Supply to Unsafe AI Developers, Huang Says
Nvidia would consider cutting off a customer that used its chips to build artificial intelligence with safety risks, the company’s chief executive said, a threat aimed at a customer base…
SpaceX Seeks Approval for 456 Starship Launches a Year
SpaceX has asked regulators to let it launch Starship up to 456 times a year from its site in south Texas, an increase of more than eighteenfold over the 25…
SpaceX Throttled Ukrainian Military Terminals, Kyiv Says
Ukraine’s armed forces learned about a limit on their satellite links the way an ordinary subscriber would: after something that had been working stopped working. Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology…
Apple Puts a $299 Smart Display at the Center of Its Home Push
Apple introduced a suite of home hardware in New York on October 13, led by a seven-inch smart display called HomeView that goes on sale November 13 starting at $299.…
Google Widens Access to Gemini 4 Argon and Pulls the Pro Tier Up Behind It
Google began pushing Gemini 4 Argon to subscribers of its AI Pro and AI Ultra plans on October 13, putting the company’s newest model in front of paying users at…
Meta Opens Its First Frontier Model Family With a Two-Tier Subscription
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, describing them as the company’s strongest models to date and its first family of frontier systems. The pair is…

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