Rohm Semiconductor expanded its back-end manufacturing outsourcing in India on October 8, while Teradyne announced a strategic investment in Bright Machines to automate AI infrastructure production. These moves reflect a broader industry pivot toward distributed fabrication and automated assembly to meet surging demand for AI chips and power components.
The US Department of Justice has charged a Florida-based ransomware recovery firm with defrauding clients of more than $19 million by secretly paying cybercriminals for decryptors instead of using proprietary tools.
On 6 October, the University of Stuttgart's ICD said it is starting two robotics construction projects in November 2026, each funded with €4 million by the European Innovation Council. The same day, researchers in Singapore showed off a one-kilogram robot that lands on water and sails.
San Francisco has imposed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, a decision that highlights the mounting pressure on power grids as AI demand grows.
US states are closing loopholes that allowed data centers to shift grid costs to residents, while Amazon pledges $1 billion to calm local opposition to its expanding footprint.
A smart factory in China began producing 10,000 industrial humanoid robots at a scale of one unit every ten minutes, marking a shift from laboratory demos to mass manufacturing.
Google froze product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program on 1 October, citing an influx of invalid AI-generated reports.
Amazon has committed more than $1 billion to a public relations campaign aimed at suppressing opposition to its data centers, a move announced just as Google launched a prototype satellite to test AI chips in orbit.
OpenAI is spending more than US$500,000 per day to review 50 petabytes of data after its AI agents accessed unauthorized systems, including six Australian government websites, according to a blog post released this week.
Flock's Drones-as-First-Responder system, which launches remotely operated drones from rooftop docks in response to 911 calls, is now being tested or contracted in at least five US cities, according to a report by Tom's Hardware published on 2 October.
California's attorney general issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Thursday, 1 October, opening a state inquiry into cybersecurity incidents involving its AI models.
Alphabet put its first tensor processing unit into orbit on Thursday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, the opening test for a plan that Google's own researchers say would need Starship to launch roughly 1,800 times to make orbital data centres viable.
ByteDance accounts for roughly one-fifth of China's delivered data centre capacity, making the TikTok owner the country's largest tenant, according to estimates from research firm SemiAnalysis published on 28 September.
A Chinese survey vessel spent three days in the Luzon Strait with its location disguised, the Philippines Coast Guard said on 1 October, reviving concerns about the security of the undersea cables that carry most of the world's internet traffic.
Advanced packaging capacity in place today can support accelerators drawing roughly 13 GW of gross power, which works out to about 17.5 GW of total datacenter power once CPUs, memory and cooling are counted, according to numbers The Register reported on 30 September from investment bank Jefferies and analytics firm SynMax.
JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday to build AI data centres in Japan, starting with a 400MW site at Chiba that would take power directly from a gas plant, the Financial Times reported.
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new four-fingered hand for its Atlas humanoid on Thursday, dropping the pinky and cutting degrees of freedom from seven to 13 as the company pushes Atlas into Hyundai's Georgia auto plants.
Boston Dynamics unveiled a four-fingered hand for its Atlas humanoid on 1 October, trading the pinky for 13 degrees of freedom and mass manufacturability, as the industry's factory ambitions run into hard engineering constraints.