Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Month: October 2026
Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User’s Messages Without Consent
Communications chief Andy Stone said reading Messages requires two permissions the user controls, disputing a journalist who reported Muse synced his texts despite his settings.
Steam Deck 2: Is AMD Gainsborough the chip Valve’s been waiting for?
The Steam Deck LCD’s “Aerith” APU. | Photo by Fritzchens Fritz The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 – but Valve has consistently said it needs a new chip with a “generational leap” in performance and efficiency before building the sequel. There’s … Read more
The ‘Largest Pure-Play’ XRP Treasury Is About to Go Public
Shareholders approved Evernorth’s merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, clearing the way for the Ripple-backed firm to begin trading Oct. 8 with a stash of roughly 473 million XRP.
Another Trump memecoin dinner advertised for token’s top investors
The company managing the memecoin calls the November event the “most exclusive dinner in the world.”
50,000 Europeans call on EU to ease stablecoin rewards restrictions in MiCA review
A 50,000-letter campaign is pressing Brussels to rethink stablecoin rewards as EU central banks seek broader changes to MiCA’s stablecoin rules.
World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker.
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group
OpenAI says the three broke its rules on handling sensitive information. The exits land after months of rogue-agent incidents, a trail of safety-team departures, and a new lawsuit.
Illinois will postpone implementation of crypto tax following lawsuit
State officials agreed to delay the 0.2% crypto tax for six months after lawsuits and industry pushback claimed the bill was rushed through the legislature.
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors
In my previous post: Building persistent memory for multi-agent AI systems with Amazon S3 Vectors, we explored why memory engineering is the foundational discipline for production multi-agent systems. We showed how Amazon S3 Vectors, a capability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), meets the architectural requirements for agent memory: semantic retrieval, rich metadata, strong … Read more
Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google’s side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC … Read more
It’s the Start of Uptober. Will Bitcoin Live Up to It?
Bitcoin enters its historically strongest month after a record-pace September, but a Fed hike and 5.3% Treasury yields are testing the bulls.
This startup wants to turn idle user car inventory into rental revenue
When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn’t see rows of cars — he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating, while people who only need a car for a few months are stuck paying too much for too little choice, so he built MyMonthlyCar, a platform that lets dealers rent … Read more
Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5
Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” that’s a result of Sony’s Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post. Sony says that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which is … Read more
Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS
Generative AI has made it possible to produce large amounts of personalized content quickly and at low cost. In our previous post, we showed how generative AI on Amazon Bedrock can produce personalized content at scale while staying within brand guidelines and guardrails. The new challenge is now one of selection. Among all of those … Read more
Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web
Amazon Web Services’ Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows
Teams that process documents at scale know the routine: files land in storage, someone notices, opens each one, decides what it needs, and routes it for review. Monitoring alerts queue up the same way, waiting for a person to act on them. The hours lost to manual triage are the operational problem ambient agents solve. … Read more
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
Implementing Multi-Environment Access for Claude Platform on AWS
You need Claude Platform on AWS (CPonAWS) inference from three environments: production workloads on AWS, developer laptops for local iteration, and external services on other cloud providers or on-premises continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Each environment has different authentication requirements, but all should share a single subscription with workspace-level isolation between production and … Read more
Simplify dashboard drill-down with the Amazon Quick Sight hierarchy filter
Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards. You can access these dashboards from any device and embed them into your applications, portals, and websites. When building a dashboard, authors add filters so readers can narrow the data to what they want to analyze. But … Read more
Illinois Delays Controversial Crypto Tax Amid Industry Lawsuit
Illinois officials and crypto groups jointly asked a state court to delay the 0.2% Digital Asset Tax from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2027, while a legal challenge continues.
New York, Wyoming regulators sign pact to coordinate crypto oversight
The agreement will allow the two state regulators to share supervisory information, streamline licensing reviews and coordinate examinations and enforcement actions involving digital asset firms.
Can VR glasses save VR?
Sean wears the Meta VR Glasses. | Photo: Meta I’m pretty sure I won’t be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses. That’s too rich for my blood in today’s economy, and my feelings about Meta are… conflicted. But I want you to understand that Meta just changed the game. We’ve had glasses, but we’ve never … Read more
Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving
After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year. Roslansky’s departure has triggered another leadership shuffle inside Microsoft. “Ryan leaves the organization … Read more