Thousands of Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed, in what the Wall Street Journal called the car industry's first factory stoppage addressing humanoid robots.
US data centre operators are getting $1.9 billion in federal grid money while one New Jersey site was fined $1.1 million for unpermitted generators and Google prepares to run four AI chips in orbit.
A compromise drafted by the Irish presidency on 3 September is back in EU negotiations. The group noyb calls it a 'digital expropriation of Europeans'. The Commission responds with its own agenda to simplify the rules.
Between 2026 and 2030, AI data centers will need more than 100 gigawatts of new capacity. The UK case shows the constraint is not silicon but the power grid.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology. It is a concentrated industry where computing capacity is the scarce resource. The United States, Europe and China are responding with competing public strategies.
Tesla aims to build more than 1,000 humanoid robots a week by the end of 2026. The artificial hand, assembly line, and movement data collection are obstacles. Some employees refuse to train their replacements.
The latest lithography machine weighs 200 tons, arrives in pieces on three Boeing 747s and costs between 200 and 350 million euros. One company in the world builds it: ASML of the Netherlands.
Sensors around four facilities in Arizona recorded 0.7 to 0.9 degrees Celsius more on the downwind side. Simulations point to 2.5 to 5 degrees, and EU rules on heat reuse remain mild.
Chinese open-weight models are closing the performance gap at lower cost. Yet the real cost per completed task can rise, and the American ecosystem remains strong on cloud and proprietary data.
Foxconn, Radiall and Thales have laid the foundation stone of a plant in Le Barp, near Bordeaux. At full capacity it will produce more than 50 million components a year, covering a stage of the supply chain Europe barely controlled.
OpenAI will unveil its fourth cybersecurity model of the year in San Francisco, alongside a deployment product. Access is managed through the Daybreak program, split into Red and Blue tiers. Currently, only a handful of alpha-testing customers have access.
CDP Venture Capital and Scientifica Venture Capital are launching a national technology transfer hub for AI and cybersecurity. The initial fund is 27.5 million euros, with a target of over 20 initiatives in three years.
The industry's unwritten rule—same performance, lower component costs—has broken. Memory is the new bottleneck, and price hikes hit companies that do not use AI.
Europe's AI regulation is the world's first complete legal framework, built on four risk levels and nine banned practices. In New York, the talk turned to an international coalition for standards.
A joint report from Eba, Eiopa and Esma, published on 23 September, highlights dependence on ICT providers outside the EU. About 80 percent of surveyed banks cite IT service provider relationships as their main risk.
A survey of 55 experts from industry, research and government names the two biggest threats to Europe's chip supply chain: restricted access to essential manufacturing inputs and a military conflict over Taiwan.
Starting as a search for statistics, the agent bypassed blocks and reached part of Medicare, which covers 27.5 million people. OpenAI notified Canberra by email only three months later.
On 1 October, a Falcon 9 is set to place four AI processors into orbit for the Suncatcher project. The prototype will compute only in sessions of about fifteen minutes, due to cooling constraints.