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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a router installed during an L3Harris upgrade flooded the air traffic control network with connection attempts. The FAA is still working out whether the cause was a bad router or human error, and Duffy is using the outage to press Congress for $50 billion.
Nvidia joined 105 startup funding rounds this year, often as the largest investor, and VCs say many of those calls were Huang's own. With a more cautious interim CEO in charge, founders fear a funding gap, while Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo move to check that Nvidia's commitments still stand.
Quantum Systems says it contained an October attack by 'hostile actors.' Reports say a malicious update to its QBase mission-planning software reached customers, including the Bundeswehr, which was the only one to ground its fleet.
Eighty-seven percent of the market contacts the Federal Reserve polled named artificial intelligence as a salient threat to the financial system, up from 50% in the spring. The same report puts new numbers on the borrowing, leases and guarantees behind the data center boom.
A review of more than 150 Chinese procurement notices, plans and filings shows local governments, state contractors and universities still designing data centers around H100, H200 and H800 processors. The records show demand, not delivery, and they arrive as Nvidia loses the chief executive who argued loudest for selling to China.
Amazon's robotaxi unit has started driving its purpose-built vehicle in northwest Atlanta, its newest testing market. A public waitlist is promised in the coming months, less than two months after Zoox grounded its separate Atlanta test fleet over workers' gas-exposure complaints.
A Google Research post credits Gemini 4 multi-agent workflows with a full Lean proof of a 2013 information-theory conjecture, a 1.8-million-line formalization of the Weil conjectures and an 800,000-line Rust kernel port. Google is opening the tools to outside researchers, with free access for 10,000 academics.
State breach filings show attackers used credentials stolen from Fireworks AI to reach a cloud storage area Uber set up for the vendor, taking license photos, names, addresses and birth dates. Filings from five states alone cover nearly 12,000 people, and the count is still rising.
A three-second window per task on a 60-cars-an-hour line, hands that wear out, and vision systems blinded by welding sparks have pushed Geely, XPeng, Li Auto and others to shrink their humanoid plans toward sorting, showrooms and human-robot teamwork.
The FAA halted departures nationwide on Friday after switches and routers carrying air traffic control voice and radar data were flooded with data. Officials say there is no sign of a cyberattack, investigators are reportedly looking at a software update, and thousands of flights were canceled.
Demand for what could be the biggest IPO on record is running ahead of SpaceX's pace, Reuters reports, but Bloomberg says underwriters are refusing orders from mainland Chinese and Hong Kong institutions, partly over U.S. arms-export rules. Investors are also questioning how long Claude's lead can last.
The Michigan self-driving company, which is heading for Nasdaq through a SPAC merger, says the electric van will carry its autonomous driving kit, with U.S. road tests in early 2027 and first production vehicles in 2028. It is promising to cut vehicle costs by more than half.
The two-seat car with no steering wheel or pedals is due for its first Austin deliveries in December. Buyers must keep paying Tesla every month, and the car will drive only inside Tesla's Robotaxi zones in Texas and Florida.
The Personal Agent Protocol tells a visiting AI agent who it is dealing with and what it may do. Shopify has switched it on for all of its merchants, Meta's Muse now looks for it first, and more than 100 companies have signed up, though the specification is still labeled a draft.
Xintec, which is about 41% owned by TSMC, will build and run a line for the final on-substrate step of CoWoS packaging inside TSMC's Taichung complex. It plans to raise NT$15 billion in convertible bonds, but volume output is not due until 2029.
Will DePue's forensic report reads hardware traces left in the published weights of models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group. It says nothing about where the chips were or whether any law was broken, but it puts fresh technical evidence behind a fight over U.S. export controls.
An internal Amazon memo describes 'World Product Graph,' a project to gather data on goods the company doesn't even sell, partly by crawling other retailers' sites. Amazon calls the document an outdated brainstorm, but it lays bare how the company sees the threat from AI agents.
The angel round values the months-old company at 4 billion yuan. Xilect wants a single on-robot processor that handles perception, decisions and motion control, with partner test platforms in 2027 and a first chip in 2028.
Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and Defender were disrupted for close to a day across dozens of countries. Microsoft apologized, said the cause was 'not related to cyber or AI / agents' and promised a full post-incident report.
OpenAI confirmed to Fortune that robotics researchers now report to chief research officer Mark Chen and the applied robotics and hardware teams to president Greg Brockman. The company says the move speeds up robotics rather than retreating from it.