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- D.C. appeals court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic designation
The ruling keeps a separate legal challenge alive as CEO Dario Amodei defends limits on military uses of Claude and Anthropic contests the designation.
- BlackRock and IFM enter exclusive talks for STACK's Asia portfolio valued at $20B-$25B
Bloomberg reports a preliminary $20B-$25B portfolio value and says the buyer group, which includes BlackRock-backed AIP, is preparing due diligence. No signed agreement has been reported.
- New Jersey fines DataOne $1.07M over 62 unpermitted AI data-center generators
The September 22nd penalty targets infrastructure built for a Nebius-Microsoft deal; DataOne co-founder Charles-Antoine Beyney previously sold data-center operator Etix Everywhere.
- Comma.ai's reported NHTSA probe still has no accessible agency record
TechCrunch reported a 2026 inquiry into Comma.ai, but its linked NHTSA page is generic. The available PE16-007 document concerns Tesla and Mobileye; an NHTSA FOIA log separately lists a 2016 order to Comma.ai.
- Tesla says Semi deliveries start as Nevada factory targets 50,000 trucks a year
The company says deliveries begin after a first truck left the line in April; 50,000 units is the factory's planned annual capacity, not current output.
- Outpost Technologies pitches orbital manufacturing, starting with its own StarFiber
Outpost Technologies says its reusable CarryAll system can support orbital production and Earth return. It reports six MOUs for space-made fiber, while the agreements' details remain undisclosed.
- Comma AI's retrofit driver-assist faces a federal probe after five crashes
NHTSA is examining three deaths, 11 injuries and whether Comma devices detected stopped vehicles, including when modified versions of its open-source software were running.
- Nathan Fielder's Theranos documentary releases its first full trailer
You Can See Everything follows Elizabeth Holmes in the weeks before prison and across three years; A24 plans a theatrical release on October 16th.
- Heart Aerospace unveils 36-seat ES-36 as JSX commits to 50 aircraft
The deposit-backed deal includes purchase rights for 50 more; Heart targets first flight in 2028 and airline service in 2031.
- Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report illness
The August incidents involved modified gasoline-powered Toyota Highlanders, not Zoox's electric robotaxis. An OSHA letter cited as many as 40 potentially exposed workers.
- GNU Radio joins OCUDU, giving open-source RAN a physical-layer workbench
Eric Blossom's 25-year-old SDR project enters OCUDU as the Linux Foundation initiative builds a shared stack for 5G and 6G research.
- Putin votes under an 'Activate Windows' watermark on a Dell monitor
The Kremlin clip undercuts Russia's technology-sovereignty campaign, though it does not prove the software was pirated or the computer violated Russian law.
- Nippon Life plans $12.75B in infrastructure finance, including US data centers
President Satoshi Asahi is steering policyholder capital toward project finance, though the 2 trillion yen plan covers more than US data centers.
- Jev 101: The AI model that doesn't talk
TypeSafe's new model gives up text generation entirely. That sounds like making an LLM dumber. It may be exactly why Jev is useful.
- AI assistant showdown: Grok Bot, Instinct, Claude, ChatGPT Work, Muse
This is a competition, and we intend to keep running it. Round one put five shipped “coworkers” through the same Friday: an inbox, a patio dinner in Austin, a $25 cable tray, a live HN tab, a paused weekly digest, and two traps. One took the table at 4/5. Nobody got the keys to the house overnight.
- I gave Hikari, Meta's Muse assistant, a week of real work. It remembered my life
Karel Baloun used the AI agent for family logistics, research, travel and document analysis. Persistent memory changed his workflow, while one 37,000-word report consumed 2.04 million input tokens and Meta's logging complicated the private-VM pitch.
- MiniMax joins Nebius builder program without disclosing a cloud deal
MiniMax says the program will give developers access to models, infrastructure, tooling, credits and office hours, but neither side disclosed a commercial contract or production deployment.
- Wolfram Cloud returns 503 errors as user reports two-day outage
The failure blocks the service's main entry point, while Wolfram's other public websites remain reachable.
- Pentagon CTO declares the defense-tech science fair over
Emil Michael's office is concentrating innovation programs around deployment, commercial adoption and measurable military use.
- XChat tests X Numbers after pitching an end to phone-number swaps
The optional code would let strangers message or call only when they know a user's X Number, while mutual follows and existing chats remain exempt.
- SEC investigates Situational Awareness after its leveraged AI bets unraveled
The regulator subpoenaed major lenders for records after Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund sold most of its stock portfolio to Citadel.
- AliExpress anti-bot scripts blocked one user's Bluetooth handoff by playing nothing
Two obfuscated anti-bot scripts opened live audio graphs, exposing a gap in browser mute controls and producing an unusual hardware side effect.
- GitHub blames capacity failure and retry storm for nearly eight-hour outage
A Central US autoscaling failure hit authentication, Actions and Copilot as GitHub races to move production traffic onto Azure.
- Attackers poisoned three Rust crates to steal developer credentials during builds
The malicious releases remained online for 86 to 107 minutes across packages with roughly 264M lifetime downloads.