• September 22, 2026
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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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 75 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 113 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 95 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 72 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 82 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 94 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 74 views
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…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 97 views
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.…

  • September 22, 2026
  • 93 views
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.…