• September 18, 2026
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Altman and Huang Land on the White House Dinner List

The guest list for a state dinner is a map of what a government considers important, and the list for the dinner in Washington next week has a new kind…

  • September 18, 2026
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Microsoft Copilot Goes Down for Thousands of Users

Microsoft’s Copilot failed across the middle of the day on September 17, leaving users staring at error messages in a product the company has placed at the center of its…

  • September 18, 2026
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Apple Workers Strike in Italy on the iPhone 18 Launch Day

The new iPhones went on sale around the world on September 18, and in Italy the launch day arrived with a complication. Roughly 1,600 employees at 17 Apple stores in…

  • September 18, 2026
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Tesla and SpaceX Sue Over the ‘Terafab’ Name

The name “Terafab” sounds like exactly what it is: a factory for building chips at the scale of a trillion operations. Elon Musk gave the name to his chipmaking plans,…

  • September 18, 2026
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A Security Team Used Claude to Reach OpenAI’s Code Repos in 72 Hours

The intrusion began with a flaw in a place no one was watching. On July 25, a team from the security firm Hacktron chained two vulnerabilities together, using Anthropic’s Claude…

  • September 18, 2026
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UN Hands Global Statistics to a Google-Built Data Commons

The United Nations has been publishing its statistics for decades through a portal built for a different era, one where a researcher clicked through categories to find a number. On…

  • September 18, 2026
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Apple Relaxes ATT Prompts in Five EU Countries

Apple has spent years defending the design of the pop-up that asks users whether they want to be tracked, and regulators in Europe have spent years arguing that the design…

  • September 18, 2026
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Oracle Cuts Another 441 Jobs in the Bay Area

Oracle is laying off more workers in the region where it keeps its headquarters, and the numbers tell a story that has become familiar at the company: cloud orders and…

  • September 18, 2026
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House Passes a Data Center Power Bill; the Senate Stalls

The bill that would make big data centers pay for their own electricity cleared the House of Representatives on the evening of September 16 by a margin that leaves little…

  • September 18, 2026
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Zoox’s Nevada Fleet Cap Expires as Las Vegas Crowds

For the past year, a single number has defined Zoox’s presence in Nevada: one hundred. The permit the Amazon-owned company held limited its fleet to 100 vehicles, a ceiling that…