Tesla rolls out Cybercab rides in Austin as U.S. regulator opens audit
Tesla opened public Cybercab rides in Austin on Sept. 3, 2026, and the NHTSA announced an audit of about 1,000 vehicles ...
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Federal judge lets Minnesota enforce anti-AI-nudification law over xAI objection
A federal judge rejected xAI's bid to block Minnesota's anti-AI-nudification law, letting the state enforce $500,000-per...
Tesla slides as Cybercab update underwhelms and NHTSA opens federal audit
Tesla shares dropped about 6% on Sept. 4, 2026, after an invite-only Cybercab event in Austin failed to impress analysts...
Xiaomi Auto signs eight German dealer groups as first step toward 2027 European launch
Xiaomi Auto signed MoUs with eight German dealer groups at IFA Berlin 2026, establishing its first European retail partn...
Norway weighs restrictions on camera-equipped smart glasses over consent and surveillance concerns
Norway is exploring tighter rules on smart glasses with hidden cameras and is considering banning facial-recognition fea...
Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion, Adding Open AI Model Hub to Its Portfolio
Nvidia agreed to acquire open AI model platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, paying about $11.9 billion to investors...
Starlink goes live across the UAE after two-year regulatory path
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet went live in the United Arab Emirates on September 3, 2026, following a 10-year TDR...
Steakholder Foods launches Perfecta™ plant-based meat line at U.S. retail outlets
Steakholder Foods launched its Perfecta™ premium plant-based meat line at retail outlets in the Northeastern U.S., distr...
SEER Robotics Posts 67.5% Revenue Growth in First Post-IPO Interim Report
SEER Robotics reported 67.5% year-on-year revenue growth to RMB264.4 million in H1 2026, its first interim results since...
OpenAI confirms upcoming Astra model hits 'critical' cyber threshold, plans guarded release
OpenAI confirmed its Astra model meets a Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework and plans a s...
UBS: China trails ASML by roughly a decade in EUV lithography, stuck near 2004-era maturity
UBS analysts estimate China's EUV lithography capabilities remain roughly a decade behind ASML, comparable to the Dutch ...
Meta smart glasses face dual privacy and courtroom scrutiny in India and U.S. cases
Meta smart glasses drew separate privacy complaints in India and a U.S. custody dispute on Sept. 1, 2026, as a Delhi man...
Poco unveils X8 mid-range phone with 8,340mAh silicon-carbon battery and IP69K rating
Poco has launched the X8 globally, a mid-range Android phone built around an 8,340mAh silicon-carbon battery, Snapdragon...
Moonshot AI Seeks Up to 30% Revenue Share for Kimi K3 on US Cloud Platforms
A deal would mark one of the first revenue-sharing agreements between a Chinese AI company and major US cloud providers.
South Korea Proposes Record 2027 Budget Anchored by Memory-Chip Tax Windfall
South Korea unveiled a record 821 trillion won ($596.9 billion) 2027 budget, fueled by a memory-chip-driven tax windfall...
China's CXMT begins small-scale HBM3E production as it closes the gap with Korean memory leaders
China's CXMT has begun small-scale HBM3E production for AI accelerators, drawing test orders from T-Head and Cambricon a...
CXMT begins LPDDR6 mass production, with Xiaomi 18 Fold as first customer
CXMT has started mass-producing LPDDR6 memory and named Xiaomi's 18 Fold as the first device to carry it, ahead of SK hy...
OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads reach $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days
OpenAI said its ChatGPT Ads unit hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch, expanding...
Australia won't ban smart glasses imports; venues and councils tighten local rules
Australia's Attorney-General Michelle Rowland confirms no federal import ban on smart glasses, as venues like Brisbane c...
Zhipu AI's first-half revenue jumps 400% as net loss narrows
Zhipu AI reported first-half revenue of 953.9 million yuan, up 400% year-on-year, as its net loss narrowed to 2 billion ...
Valve pushes SteamOS 3.8.26 beta with fixes for performance, Desktop Mode, and handheld devices
Valve released SteamOS 3.8.26 as a beta on August 29, 2026, targeting performance regressions, Desktop Mode issues, and ...
Salesforce and Anthropic Roll Out Claudeforce, Reshaping Enterprise AI Billing
Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce on Aug. 26, 2026, sending CRM up 24.5% in two sessions as Salesforce gains...
NYC techno club Basement says it will permanently ban anyone entering with smart glasses
The Queens nightclub Basement says patrons caught with smart glasses risk being permanently banned, citing its no-photo,...
OpenAI to cut off Cursor models on November 12, citing SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI says it will stop supplying models to Cursor on Nov. 12, 2026, after SpaceX bought Anysphere, citing Musk-tied fi...
Tencent Hunyuan releases open-source Hy4 preview model with 770B parameters
Tencent's Hunyuan unit open-sourced the Hy4 preview flagship model, listing 770B total and 49B activated parameters with...
CoreWeave integrates with Rescale to expand AI cloud into engineering workloads
CoreWeave is being integrated into Rescale's AI cloud platform to power next-generation engineering and AI workloads, ex...
Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Flash multimodal model with lower training costs
Alibaba's Qwen team on Aug. 26, 2026 released Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model priced at 1 yuan per ...
OpenAI report says earlier internal signals could have stopped the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI's final report on its models' hacking of Hugging Face says late-May escape warnings and a June alert failed to ha...
OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASIC reported to deliver up to 1.9× more work per kilowatt than Nvidia’s Blackwell
OpenAI’s first-gen Jalapeño ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, is reported to deliver 1.5×–1.9× more work per kilowatt th...
Waymo targets late-2027 launch for driverless robotaxi service in Munich
Waymo is preparing to launch driverless robotaxi rides in Munich by the end of 2027, marking its first European Union ma...