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Amazon Commits $100M To Build Fulfillment And Robotics Gear In Greenwood, Indiana — Sep 27, 2026 — Amazon will spend more than $100 million on a 585,000-square-foot factory in Greenwood, Indiana that starts producing fulfillment and robotics equipme...Space42 And Viasat Formalize $1B Equatys JV For 2,800-Satellite D2D LEO — Sep 23, 2026 — The signed venture pools more than 100 MHz of MSS spectrum and up to $1B in equity to build a shared LEO fleet for direct-to-device connectivity acros...Amazon Drones Drop Packages Where 10 State Laws Say They Cannot — Sep 21, 2026 — Amazon’s Prime Air MK30 is the only U.S. delivery drone that releases packages in flight — a method banned or permit-restricted in at least 10 states...Zipline In Talks For $1B Round At $20B As Part 108 Rule Sits Idle — Sep 20, 2026 — Instant-logistics operator Zipline is reportedly negotiating a $1 billion raise that would nearly triple its valuation to $20 billion, even as the FAA...Amazon Files Portland Drone Hub In A State That Fought FAA Review — Sep 20, 2026 — Amazon has filed a pre-application for its first Prime Air drone-delivery center in Oregon, staking out a Portland site for MK30 launches even after t...Amazon Locks In Up To $8B Generac Backup Power Deal, Takes Warrant Stake — Sep 19, 2026 — Amazon has signed a multi-year deal worth up to $8 billion for Generac backup power generators to firm up its AI data center fleet, taking warrants on...GlobalFoundries And Marvell Expand SiGe Deal For AI Data Center Optics — Sep 19, 2026 — GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their multi-year silicon germanium agreement, adding fresh SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Verm...Australia's Metacognition AI Bags A$10M Pre-Seed To Give Models Long-Term Memory — Sep 10, 2026 — Adelaide's Metacognition AI raised A$10 million from Main Sequence to build a memory-and-control layer that sits under frontier models — roughly 10× t...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.Qualcomm And Amazon Ink Multi-Generation Custom AI Chip Deal, $4B AWS Warrant — Sep 9, 2026 — Qualcomm and Amazon on September 8 unveiled a multi-generation custom AI inference silicon and 1.6T optical partnership for AWS, with a warrant lettin...DroneXL Launches Public Tracker Of Every US Amazon, Wing And Zipline Delivery Drone Hub — Sep 9, 2026 — DroneXL launched a public Drone Delivery Tracker mapping 40 Amazon Prime Air hubs, 368 Wing nests, five Zipline authorizations and eight incidents, wi...Anthropic Locks In 14.8 GW And $517B Of Compute As IPO Race With OpenAI Heats Up — Sep 9, 2026 — Anthropic has signed $517B of compute contracts for 14.8 GW of AI capacity in 11 months, with an 11 GW deal from Amazon and Google alone worth more th...NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — Sep 5, 2026 — NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger used his September 5 IFA 2026 keynote to pitch a European physical-AI ecosystem built around the 4NE1 humanoid and the...OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-6 Astra With 1M Context, Frontier Coding And Computer Use — Sep 5, 2026 — GPT-6 Astra begins rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex customers with a 1M token context, near-perfect FrontierMath, ARC-AGI-3 and ExploitBench scores, a...IFM Ships K2 Horizon, A Six-Model Fully Open-Source Frontier AI Fleet From MBZUAI — Sep 5, 2026 — Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon: six frontier-grade LLMs from 0.9B to 375B parameters with fully open weights, code and...Zoox Robotaxi Service Expands To Las Vegas Airport, First Driverless AV At LAS — Sep 4, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox extended its commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas to Harry Reid International Airport on September 3, becoming the first driverl...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...Amazon Prime Air Plans 500 US Drone Delivery Cities By End Of 2026 — Sep 1, 2026 — Amazon says its MK30 drones will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns this year, a sixfold expansion of Prime Air's current 11-metro footprint.Zoox Turns On The Meter In Las Vegas With 2,500-Vehicle NHTSA Exemption — Sep 1, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox began charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10 after NHTSA granted a two-year commercial exemption covering up to 2,5...Electra, Helsinki, Haaga-Helia Sign MOU On EL9 Air Service To Tallinn — Aug 31, 2026 — Electra, the City of Helsinki and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences signed an August 27, 2026 memorandum to study EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-elec...