Tesla to open Optimus robot reservations in December
Tesla has started manufacturing its humanoid robot, Optimus, on a high-capacity production line at its factory in Fremont, California, amid expectations that public reservations will open for the first time in early December. Elon Musk warned that full-scale production and delivery of the robots to external customers will not take place before the end of 2027.
Google warns of the cost of space-based data centers
Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy at Google, has warned that building data centers in space could cost up to 100 times more than on Earth. This realistic caution coincided with the company celebrating the successful first run of an AI model on one of its chips in orbit as part of Project Suncatcher.
Eight Sleep launches smart mode for women’s sleep
Abu Dhabi-based Eight Sleep has announced the launch of a menopause mode feature within its Pod smart sleep system to help women sleep uninterrupted during pre-menopausal and post-menopausal stages. The system provides proactive, immediate cooling and custom analytics that research has shown can reduce nighttime hot flashes by an average of 56 percent.
Omninet launches new website with advanced digital identity
German IT service management and enterprise software specialist Omninet has announced the launch of its completely redesigned website featuring a reorganized content architecture and a corporate design supporting both dark and light modes. The new site focuses on delivering tailored entry points based on operational challenges and job roles to highlight the value of the AI-powered Omnitracker platform.
Google tests a default chat mode in Gemini
A code inspection of a new beta version of the Google app on Android has revealed an upcoming setting that allows Gemini app users to select either chat mode or task mode as the default when opening the application. This move comes just a few weeks after the integration of the Gemini Spark agent into the main interface.
Investors lower Anthropic IPO valuation
Major institutional investors are lowering their price expectations for Anthropic ahead of its anticipated initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange this month, settling on a fair valuation between $1.5 trillion and $1.6 trillion compared to previous estimates of nearly $2 trillion. This decline follows the sharp tech stock sell-off last week.
Mustafa Suleyman warns against conscious artificial intelligence
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman asserted that current AI systems are not conscious, warning that developing conscious artificial intelligence would be a reckless act that must be avoided. Suleyman sharply criticized Anthropic’s approach of treating machine consciousness as an open question in the Claude model constitution.
Pope Leo rejects granting rights to artificial intelligence
During a scientific conference at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV warned against granting AI agents any rights or legal personhood, stressing that machines are merely tools rather than persons and that full responsibility lies with the humans who develop them. He also called for disarming AI and banning lethal autonomous weapons.
Google’s satellite writes a poem from space
Google’s experimental AI satellite answered its first text prompt from outer space, with the Gemma 4 model running on a tensor processing unit writing a haiku while passing over Norway. This test represents an early proof point for the ambitious Project Suncatcher before radiation and thermal stress testing.
Tech giants back unified signal to opt out of training
Four major AI development companies—Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft—have committed to respecting a unified signal within robots files that allows websites to opt out of having their content used to train generative AI models. This step spares publishers from having to block each company’s crawler individually, with Microsoft adding special attribution controls.