Tesla reveals European Semi specs: 550 km range, 800 kW charging
Tesla reveals European Semi specs: 550 km range, 800 kW charging

Tesla revealed the European specs for its Semi electric truck, and they don’t match the version already in production in the US. The truck will offer up to 550 km (342 miles) of range at 40 tonnes fully loaded.

Tesla Europe posted the numbers today,…

The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres
The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest €40bn ($46.4bn) in Germany, including in new data centres with a combined capacity of about one gigawatt. The two countries announced the package in a joint declaration on 10 September. UAE President Sheikh Moha…

Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown

US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 Septembe…

Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals

The first International Space Summit closed at the Grand Palais in Paris on Thursday with about €20bn in announced investment and 51 deals signed, after two days in which European governments tried to convert a long-running argument about dependence on…

Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini
Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini

Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a con…

Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars
Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars

WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework fo…

Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast mission to the ISS
Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast mission to the ISS

Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greece’s first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station partners. The European Space Agency has signed an agreement on behalf of Greece with the US company Vast. Vast plans the mission to the International S…

Microsoft patches a record 974 flaws, and two are already under attack
Microsoft patches a record 974 flaws, and two are already under attack

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the company’s release notes. Attackers were already exploiting two of them before the patches landed on Tuesday. Both zero-days let an attacker who already h…

Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports
Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports

Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK instit…