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Waymo Sets 2028 Robotaxi Launch in Singapore, Its First Southeast Asia Market — Sep 18, 2026 — Alphabet's Waymo will bring its all-electric robotaxi service to Singapore in 2028, using Jaguar I-PACE vehicles and a 2027 manual-driving training ph...Waymo Turns On Public Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, Its 15th U.S. City — Sep 17, 2026 — Waymo has begun public driverless robotaxi service on the Las Vegas Strip, opening its 15th U.S. commercial market and capping a four-city September e...Waymo Launches Robotaxi In Denver, San Diego And Tampa, Adding Zeekr Ojai — Sep 12, 2026 — Waymo's public robotaxi service now covers 14 U.S. cities as Denver, San Diego and Tampa go live, with the Zeekr-built Ojai minivan serving two of the...Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa — Sep 10, 2026 — Waymo brings driverless commercial service to 14 U.S. cities as its Zeekr-built Ojai minivan debuts in Denver and San Diego.Google to Invest €13B in Finland, Backing Fortum’s Loviisa Nuclear Plant Through 2050 — Sep 10, 2026 — Alphabet unveils a €13B Finnish data-center program anchored by a 22-year Loviisa nuclear PPA, 629 MW of new wind and a 94 MW battery near Kajaani.DOE Closes $1.9B Loan To Restart Iowa's Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant For Google — Sep 9, 2026 — The Energy Department's second AI-era nuclear restart loan hands NextEra $1.9B to bring the 615 MW Duane Arnold reactor back online by 2029 to serve G...Wing Claims Largest US Drone Delivery Network As Amazon Targets 500 Cities — Sep 7, 2026 — Wing says it is now the largest residential drone delivery network in the US after opening Greater Orlando with Walmart, while Amazon plots a sixfold...Waymo Adds Denver, San Diego And Tampa To Robotaxi Map, Now Live In 14 US Cities — Sep 7, 2026 — Waymo has begun offering public robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, extending its commercial network to 14 US cities and rolling out the ne...Google DeepMind Debuts WeatherNext 3 With Hourly, 5-km Global Forecasts — Sep 6, 2026 — WeatherNext 3 is Google's first hourly global AI weather model, drawing on live geostationary satellite data to sharpen rain predictions by up to 60%.Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Orchestration — Sep 4, 2026 — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, its embodied-reasoning brain that coordinates multiple robots, tracks task success and beats Opus 5, GP...Semicon Taiwan 2026 Opens With Silicon Photonics And Co-Packaged Optics In The Spotlight — Sep 3, 2026 — SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off international forums August 31 in Taipei and opened its main exhibition September 2 at TaiNEX, drawing more than 100,00...Waymo Turns On Driverless Rides In San Diego, Tampa And Denver As Zoox Tests Houston — Sep 2, 2026 — Alphabet-owned Waymo opened paid robotaxi service in three new US cities on the same day Amazon's Zoox said it will start supervised testing in Housto...Pentagon Adds ChatGPT Mil And Grok For Government To GenAI.mil Portal — Sep 1, 2026 — The DoD folded OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government into its GenAI.mil portal, giving 3M personnel access to three frontier models.NVIDIA Invests $3.5B In MediaTek Convertible Bonds, Wires It Into NVLink Fusion — Sep 1, 2026 — NVIDIA subscribed to 90% of MediaTek's record $3.9B convertible bond, giving the Taiwanese chip designer a route into NVLink Fusion data-center silico...MediaTek Locks In Google TPU v8 Inference Role With Zebrafish Design — Aug 31, 2026 — Google's TPU v8 splits training and inference across Broadcom and MediaTek, with MediaTek's Zebrafish variant giving the Taiwanese fabless a durable f...Marvell's $120B Google Custom Chip Deal Faces Revenue Timing Test — Aug 28, 2026 — Marvell Technology shares fell about 8% after CEO Matt Murphy told investors the semiconductor company's up to $120 billion custom AI chip agreement w...NVIDIA Debuts Jetson Orin Nano 2 With 2× Inference, Wing And Matic Adopt It First — Aug 27, 2026 — NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles the inference performance of the previous Orin Nano at 40% lower power, with Wing, Matic Robotics, Cognex and Doos...Marvell Gives Google Option To Buy $12.2 Billion Stake In Custom AI Chip Deal — Aug 21, 2026 — Marvell Technology will help design Google's next-generation custom AI chips and has issued the Alphabet unit a warrant to buy up to $12.2 billion in...Waymo Cleared to Run Robotaxis Across 18 California Counties — Aug 19, 2026 — The CPUC has cleared Alphabet's Waymo to charge for fully driverless rides across 18 California counties, opening Sacramento and San Diego and coverin...Google Wins $10M Bid for Spirit Airlines' Data to Train AI — Aug 18, 2026 — Alphabet's Google agreed to pay $10 million for a scrubbed corporate dataset from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, adding roughly 100 million emails and 500...