Google Widens Access to Gemini 4 Argon and Pulls the Pro Tier Up Behind It
Google began pushing Gemini 4 Argon to subscribers of its AI Pro and AI Ultra plans on October 13, putting the company’s newest model in front of paying users at…
Musk Backs Micron’s Memory Prices and Faults Its Rivals
The post arrived at 5:52 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 13, a reply from Elon Musk to an investor summarizing a JPMorgan note about the memory chip market. In two sentences,…
Fermi Gets an AMD Backstop for Its Texas Power Campus
Shares of Fermi Inc. rose 13.2% before the opening bell Tuesday and closed up about 18% at $3.84, on volume of 59.4 million shares, more than triple the stock’s 100-day…
Tesla’s Nine-Year Roadster Bet Takes a Stage in Texas
The field outside Waco, Texas, will be dark and the aircraft restricted when Tesla unveils the next-generation Roadster at 8:55 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 15, a date the company…
A Speed Limit Reaches Ukraine’s Drones in Mid-Flight
Overnight into Tuesday, units deployed along the Hulyaypole axis in southeastern Ukraine noticed a pattern in their failures. Starlink terminals mounted on long-range drones were dropping off the network during…
SpaceX Agrees to Testify in New York, Weeks After Skipping a Hearing
The seat reserved for SpaceXAI at New York’s City Council stayed empty on Oct. 5, while executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta answered questions under oath for nearly ten…
Meta Gives Facebook Users a Text Box for Their Algorithm
Facebook has spent two decades inferring what people want to see from what they click, watch and linger on. This week it began asking them, in writing. Meta said it…
Musk Sets a Ten-Design-a-Year Pace for the Terafab Chip Fab in Texas
Elon Musk used a company event in Austin to describe a rhythm for the chipmaking project he has been assembling in Texas. Tesla and SpaceX will aim to make and…
U.S. Regulators Weigh a Petition on Robotaxi Speeding in Austin School Zones
The complaint arrived in late September, with video attached. A petition filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alleged that Tesla’s robotaxis in Austin exceeded posted speed limits in…
TikTok’s Ad Engine Starts Counting What Sellers Pay Creators
At Advertising Week in New York this month, TikTok told a room of advertisers something its own sales team had spent two years talking around: growth at any price was…
