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Tesla Starts Building Optimus Robots in Fremont as Quarterly Profit Falls 43%
Tesla says “production-quality” Optimus humanoids are rolling off a Fremont line and promises 20,000 a week by end of 2027. Meanwhile, Q3…
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Arrive With 128GB of Memory and a $2,599 Floor
Nvidia’s first Windows laptop superchip pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace Arm CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory.…
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Tesla’s Roadster Finally Shows Up With SpaceX Thrusters and a 2028 Promise
Nine years after the first tease, Tesla finally showed its second-gen Roadster, complete with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters and a $250,000 reservation tier.…
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151 Apps, Including WeChat and Taobao, Tell ByteDance’s Phone Agent to Keep Out
ByteDance’s Doubao Phone Assistant can tap through apps for you. As its opt-out window closed, 151 apps, from WeChat and Alipay to…

