Waymo Opens Las Vegas Robotaxi Service as Minneapolis Weighs Limits
A driverless car pulled away from the curb on the Las Vegas Strip this week with no one in the driver’s seat, part of the fleet Waymo is now running…
Tesla Faces Trial Over Racial Harassment at Its Fremont Plant
As the state of California opened its case against Tesla on Tuesday, its lawyers described a factory where, they said, racial slurs were part of the working day. Black employees…
Five English Police Forces End Palantir Data-Sharing Pilot
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit, the body that coordinates serious and organised crime work across five English counties, confirmed this month that it had ended “Project Nectar,” a Palantir-built…
TSMC Pulls A14 Pilot Production Into 2027
TSMC’s most advanced process node is moving faster than the company’s own schedule. The chipmaker has pulled pilot production of its A14 process, its 1.4-nanometer-class node, forward to the first…
Samsung Expands Memory Output and Backs a Nuclear Reactor
Samsung is pushing on two fronts at once. In its fabs, the company is adding 4-nanometer capacity to make memory chips and compete head-on with SK Hynix for orders. Across…
SK Hynix Halts 2GB GDDR7 Chips as Memory Shortage Spreads
The memory shortage that has driven chip prices higher all year has now reached the graphics card inside a gamer’s PC. SK Hynix has stopped making the 2-gigabyte GDDR7 memory…
Cognex Buys Intel’s RealSense for $500 Million
The 3D cameras that give factory robots a sense of depth began life inside Intel in 2014, part of the chipmaker’s attempt to move beyond processors and into the devices…
British Columbia Sues OpenAI Over a School Shooting’s Cost
Months before an 18-year-old walked into a school in the northeast British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge and killed eight people, OpenAI’s safety team had already flagged the gun-violence content…
Anthropic Juggles a UN Briefing, IPO Plans and a Bay Area Wet Lab
Dario Amodei will appear before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, not in person but over a video link, to tell its members about the risks of artificial intelligence.…
OpenAI Asks Washington to Lead on Global AI Safety Standards
OpenAI published an essay on September 21 that amounted to a request for help from the world’s governments: do not let each country write its own rules for artificial intelligence.…

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Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
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