IonQ said on 22 September its real-time quantum error decoder ran on a single standard CPU, validated on circuits simulating 408 logical qubits and 31.5 million operations with 0.02% overhead. Shares closed up 4.4% the next day.
CXMT said on September 20 that its fifth-generation G5 DRAM platform entered mass production, reaching an 11.95nm half-pitch and shipping two 24Gb LPDDR5X chips.
Joby Aviation says a converted Cessna Caravan flew 3,199 miles from California to North Carolina with zero control inputs from its onboard safety pilot, rerouting around thunderstorms on the way.
Apple released iOS 27 on September 14, 2026 with the first public Siri AI. Apple says EU Mac and Vision Pro users get it, but iOS, iPadOS and watchOS do not at the outset.
John Ternus presented Apple's "Surprise and Shine" keynote on Sept. 9, 2026, eight days into the job, unveiling the foldable iPhone Duo. Bloomberg reported Cook would skip the video; CNN and Fox Business put him at the opening.
Waymo launched paid robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa while Amazon's Zoox began testing in Houston and San Diego, intensifying the robotaxi race.
India is preparing rules that would let AI agents make payments on UPI without asking the user to approve every transaction, under preset spending caps, audit trails and identity checks, according to reports.
Meta has updated its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to stop recording if the capture LED is covered mid-session, closing a loophole used for covert filming.
Nvidia’s unreleased DLSS 5 neural rendering library was found inside NBA 2K27 early access files. Modders ran it in Control, where an RTX 5070 Ti fell from 71 to 35 FPS at 4K in an unofficial, incomplete test.
AWS and Nvidia announced 2 million additional GPUs for 2027-2028, expanding a prior 1 million GPU deal that demand outpaced within months, plus 100,000 GPUs for the US government.
Kioxia and SanDisk said they plan to invest more than $31 billion in Japan through 2032, centered on a new flash memory plant, as AI drives NAND storage demand.
Amazon will shut Mechanical Turk on September 30 after 21 years. The microtask marketplace Bezos called 'artificial artificial intelligence' helped train the ML era.
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Meta settles US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children. Under-18 accounts get a two-hour daily cap and a midnight-to-6 a.m. blackout.
Apple has set its "Surprise and shine" keynote for Wednesday, September 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific. It will be John Ternus's first product launch as chief executive.
Tiangong Ultra ran 100 metres in 8.64 seconds to win the World Humanoid Robot Games final — beating its own 8.86-second time from the semifinal that ended in flames.
The M6 Mac mini starts at $899 and the new Mac Studio scales to 512GB of memory, shipping September 22 — days before Tim Cook hands Apple's CEO role to John Ternus.
Nvidia customers have reportedly been warned that AI server prices could rise more than 15% as memory costs hit Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems.
Nvidia customers have reportedly been warned that some AI server prices could rise by more than 15% as soaring memory costs hit next-generation systems.
YouTube is making it significantly harder for new creators to qualify for advertising and Premium revenue, with major changes to the YouTube Partner Program taking effect in February 2027.