SpaceX announced Tuesday that it plans to invest $100 billion in Starbase Louisiana, a massive new Starship launch complex in Vermilion Parish. The 125,000-acre coastal site, near Pecan Island, would become the company’s largest launch facility and is designed to support thousands of flights annually. SpaceX said construction is expected...
Meta Platforms agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion to resolve lawsuits brought by multiple U.S. states alleging its platforms foster addiction and harm youth mental health. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta explicitly denies all legal liability and wrongdoing. The agreement requires Meta to implement major platform safeguards,...
The United States technology sector has exceeded its total 2025 job losses, with 127,180 layoffs recorded across 281 companies by mid-August 2026. Major technology corporations including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle are executing aggressive operational restructuring to fund massive artificial intelligence infrastructure investments. Combined capital expenditures for leading tech firms...
Pittsburgh based artificial intelligence firm Skild AI officially announced the launch of its flagship S1 robotics foundation model on August twenty sixth, two thousand twenty six. Designed for contextual learning, the architecture enables physical robots to execute complex tasks lasting up to ten minutes from a single human video prompt...
Huawei Technologies and HP Inc. have signed a multiyear cross-licensing agreement covering Wi-Fi patents, including Wi-Fi 7, the companies said Wednesday. The agreement gives HP access to certain Huawei patents while granting Huawei reciprocal access to HP patents. Financial terms and the scope of patents were not disclosed. HP described...
A Chinese humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra has broken its previous sprinting record by completing the one hundred meter dash in exactly eight point eight six seconds during the World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing. Developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, this advanced bipedal machine surpassed its...
Financial commentator Jim Cramer declared that Nvidia has become the central anchor for the modern artificial intelligence market trade, driving broader technology sector momentum. Speaking on television, Cramer highlighted that despite continuous market chatter regarding rival chip developers, Nvidia maintains unmatched dominance across global data centers and enterprise infrastructure deployments....
Apple is testing memory chips from Chinese supplier ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) for potential use in iPhones and MacBooks sold in China, as an artificial-intelligence-driven shortage tightens global supplies, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Apple has also held discussions involving Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), a...
OpenAI on Tuesday published benchmark results for its first in-house artificial intelligence processor, codenamed Jalapeño, developed in partnership with Broadcom. The custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is engineered specifically for AI model inference rather than general-purpose training. Evaluated on SemiAnalysis’s InferenceX platform across public models including GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek...
Microelectronics engineering corporation Melexis has signed a master purchase agreement to become a direct supplier for global electric vehicle manufacturer BYD. The strategic transition bypasses traditional supply chain intermediaries, granting BYD direct access to Melexis automotive semiconductor solutions, including powertrain sensors, thermal management controllers, braking systems, and robotics modules. Corporate...
