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Oracle triggers force majeure on key New Mexico Stargate data center
The move preserves Oracle’s ability to delay payments if its flagship AI campus slips past its 2028 target start date.
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Waymo data shows big safety gains as robotaxis scale to more cities
Lower crash rates strengthen Waymo’s safety case, but patchy reporting rules and city politics still limit where it can operate.
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Google schedules first Project Suncatcher satellite for October 1 launch
The flight will put AI hardware in orbit for a real-world test, but a useful operational system remains years away.
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China launches Supercomputing-1 satellite to process Earth data in orbit
The AI-powered satellite shifts Earth-observation workloads off the ground, as China organizes a broader space computing network.
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China’s rural AI data centres tie national ambitions to physical compute
Massive server farms in remote provinces anchor China’s AI strategy, reshaping talent flows, infrastructure and local communities.
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AWS says some Middle East customer data is permanently lost after attacks
The loss exposes limits of regional redundancy and widens scrutiny of how AWS markets resilience versus what customers must build themselves.
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Toyota to roll out 400,000 humanoid factory robots from 2028
Toyota is preparing a large-scale humanoid robot deployment while insisting the systems will augment, not directly replace, its workers.
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Browsers standardize out-of-order HTML streaming for faster page loads
Chrome, Edge and the HTML standard now support server-driven streaming so usable page sections can render before the full response arrives.
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SpaceX sets date for Starship’s first orbital mission with Starlink payload
The flight aims to reach orbit and deploy 26 new Starlink V3 satellites into active service.