The Order Restricting Starshield in Ukraine Came From the White House, Reuters Reports
A restriction on Ukraine’s use of Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite system, for battlefield communications and drone missions was issued from inside the White House, according to a Reuters report on…
Tesla’s New Roadster Jumps, and Waits Until 2028
The car left the ground. At a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, on the evening of October 15, Tesla showed a second-generation Roadster using cold-gas thrusters supplied by SpaceX…
SK Hynix Ties a US NAND Plant to China Equipment Permits, Then Denies It
The offer, as described by two people familiar with the matter, was a trade: Washington lets SK Hynix ship American chipmaking equipment into its plant in Dalian, China, and the…
Six Outside Evaluators Get Desks Inside Anthropic, With a Narrow List of Exceptions
Anthropic said on October 15 that it has placed six researchers from an outside evaluation group inside the company with employee-level access, and that they may publish what they find…
A Model Name Appears in Microsoft’s Cloud Catalog Before Anyone Announces It
A model identifier showed up in a Microsoft Azure catalog and in a public record left by a routing tool, and the appearance was enough to generate a release announcement…
Musk Says SpaceX May Follow Anthropic and Open Itself to Outside Review
Elon Musk said on October 16 that SpaceX may adopt the same kind of independent evaluation that Anthropic has begun to accept, a remark that extends a practice built for…
Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation
Ramp announced on October 15 that it had raised $1.85 billion, four months after a smaller round that valued the business at a fraction of what it is worth today.…
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…
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…
