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Google will fly a TPU satellite to orbit on October 1

Google confirmed October 1 as the launch date for its first Project Suncatcher satellite, a four-TPU test flight riding SpaceX's Transporter-18 out of Vandenberg.

Oracle triggers force majeure on its $165B Stargate site

Oracle sent Blue Owl Capital a force majeure notice on its $165B, 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center after permit denials pushed the site's gas pipeline into 2027.

Gemini 4 enters post-training, Google still 24 points back

Google DeepMind's Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 has moved into post-training and could ship well before year-end, with the current flagship still trailing Claude Opus 5.5 by 23.6 points.

China confirms AI talks with US, still no hotline deal

China's Commerce Ministry confirms the first US-China AI talks took place, but Thursday's Trump-Xi summit ends without an incident hotline agreement.

Claude Code's AGENTS.md only works if telemetry is on

A researcher's canary-word test shows Claude Code 2.1.277 silently skips a project's AGENTS.md file whenever telemetry or nonessential traffic is disabled.

Signals: cheap models, and the local-to-live gap

Nvidia's SWE-Serve benchmark catches coding-agent patches that pass tests but fail live serving, plus a penny-per-hour diarization model and a $17 classifier.

Meta ships $1,299 VR Glasses, drops the metaverse pitch

At Meta Connect 2026, Zuckerberg unveiled 100-gram VR Glasses at a third of Vision Pro's price, plus a keychain AI device for Muse.

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