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…
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,…
Waymo Sets a 2028 Launch for Singapore
Waymo has spent the past several years turning a research project into a commercial ride-hailing service, one city at a time. On September 18, the company named its next city,…
Google DeepMind Launches an Institute, and Hassabis Proposes a U.S. AI Standards Body
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched a new research institute on September 16, and its opening publications carry a proposal that reaches beyond research. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind chief executive,…
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Biology Lab to Make Its Own Drugs
Anthropic is doing more than selling tools to drugmakers; it is setting up to do the drug discovery itself. The AI developer is advancing a biology laboratory of its own,…
SpaceX Sets September 28 as Earliest Date for Starship’s Fourteenth Flight
SpaceX has put a new date on the calendar for Starship’s next attempt. The company said on September 17 that it is planning the fourteenth flight of the giant rocket…
OpenAI Hires SpaceX’s Brian McCarthy to Lead Global Sales
OpenAI has turned to SpaceX for the executive who will run its sales force. The company has hired Brian McCarthy as vice president of global sales, according to reports, bringing…
SpaceX AI Unit Weighs Buying Data From Struggling Startups to Train Grok
SpaceX’s artificial-intelligence division is considering an unusual source of training material: other people’s failed companies. SpaceXAI has held informal internal discussions about buying customer and operating data from startups that…
Google Opens Its Smart-Home System to Outside AI Assistants
Google took a step on September 16 that reorders a small but telling corner of the AI race. The company launched early access to Home MCP, a protocol layer that…
A Musk Backer Hands SpaceX Shares Directly to Its Fund Investors
The transaction was quiet by design. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Valor Equity Partners, the investment firm founded by Antonio Gracias, had transferred 8.5 percent…
