xAI Pauses Minnesota’s AI-Nudes Law
Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated fake nude images was in force for two months before a federal appeals court put it on hold. On October 2, the St. Louis-based Eighth U.S.…
Nvidia’s Budget Bet, and Cerebras’s New Low
The desktop box Nvidia sells to developers now comes in a second size. On October 2, the chip maker added a 64-gigabyte version of its DGX Spark, a compact AI…
EU Moves to Put Amazon and Microsoft’s Cloud Units Under New Rules
The European Union’s sweeping digital-competition law has, until now, stopped short of the cloud, the computing layer where much of the modern internet actually runs. In June, regulators signaled they…
Apple Tightens the macOS Permission AI Assistants Were Exploiting
The setting was designed for backup software: a quiet toggle buried in macOS that lets a program read the files, the mail, the messages and the browsing history on a…
Micron Says the Memory Crunch Will Last Into Fiscal 2028
Micron Technology is telling its customers something they do not want to hear: the shortage of memory chips squeezing anyone building an AI data center is going to get worse,…
Apple’s Planned Home Camera Won’t Keep the Footage
A home security camera that watches everything and remembers nothing: that is how Apple appears to be thinking about its next device for the smart home. The camera Apple is…
California Puts a Price on Robotaxis That Block First Responders
A driverless taxi that stops in the middle of an emergency scene now carries a specific cost in California: up to $10,000. Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1246 on October…
Samsung Raises Galaxy S26 Prices by $100, Citing Memory Costs
The price of Samsung’s newest flagship phone went up before most customers ever held one. On October 1, the company raised prices across the Galaxy S26 line by roughly $100…
Tesla Cuts AI5, AI6 Memory to Make Room for Optimus
Elon Musk announced the change the way he announces most things: in a short post on X. “We cut our RAM in half for the Tesla AI5 chip (now 72GB…
Palantir Names Armada Its First Modular Data Center Partner
Palantir Technologies has spent years selling governments and companies on the idea that they should control their own data and the models built on it. On October 1, the company…
