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Google made Gemini 4 Argon, its most capable model, available on Tuesday, Oct. 13 in the Gemini app and AI Mode for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and in the paid Gemini API, two weeks after a launch limited to vetted cyber defenders. Free users don't get it.
Federal prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted audio recorder, wrapped in toilet paper, in a TV's USB port in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no sign that model weights, source code or customer data were taken.
Attorneys general in eight states filed coordinated consumer-protection lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday, Oct. 14, saying ChatGPT harms children and that the company misled parents about its safety. OpenAI says it has built industry-leading age protections.
ASML, the only maker of EUV chipmaking scanners, reported record third-quarter sales of €11.7 billion and net income of €5.0 billion on Oct. 14. It says AI demand means its planned 2027 and 2028 supply won't fully meet customer orders, and it is raising prices on its most critical tools from 2027.
SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI) has folded Grok, Grok Bot, the Cursor coding app and X Premium into one plan, The X Subscription, with five tiers: Free, Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers can keep their plans or switch.
BYD put its flagship Great Han (Da Han) electric sedan on sale in China on Oct. 13 in three versions from 235,900 yuan ($35,050) to 275,900 yuan, below pre-sale prices. Every car gets a 102.3 kWh Blade battery, roof LiDAR and flash charging rated at 10% to 97% in 9 minutes.
Ford opened a preorder-invite list for its Fathom electric pickup on Oct. 14. It starts at $28,350 before a $1,595 destination fee, uses an LFP battery and a 400-volt system, and official preorders open in early 2027. Range and towing haven't been published.
Rivian and Redwood Materials said Wednesday they are expanding their partnership so Redwood recycles Rivian manufacturing scrap and end-of-life packs, on top of a 10 MWh second-life storage project already planned for Rivian's Normal, Illinois plant.
As of Wednesday, Oct. 14, anyone can hail a Waymo in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa with no waitlist, including trips to San Antonio International Airport. Tampa is a city where Tesla's Robotaxi already runs unsupervised rides.
Terafab, the Texas chip project Tesla shares with SpaceX and xAI, will reportedly take delivery of its first ASML EUV lithography tool in mid-2027, before its Giga Texas research fab is ready for it. SemiAnalysis projects the main Grimes County fab won't start operating until late 2029, well behind earlier targets.
The first owners to install FSD (Supervised) v14.3 Lite on legacy Intel Model S and X report a clear upgrade over v12, but not the full Lite package HW3 Model 3 and Y owners got: Arrival Options, starting from Park, reversing and Actually Smart Summon are missing for now.
Tesla Japan said Wednesday that the Model Y was again Japan's best-selling foreign-brand vehicle by model in September 2026. The company still does not publish Japan unit counts, but importer data for the "Others" bucket that includes Tesla more than doubled from a year earlier.
Tesla has opened its Say shareholder Q&A for the Q3 2026 earnings call. Verified shareholders can submit and upvote questions until 4 p.m. EDT on Oct. 20, the day before results. Early leaders ask how Cybercab scales beyond Austin, when unsupervised FSD reaches customer cars, and when HW3 owners get a firm upgrade timeline.
Barclays analyst Dan Levy says Tesla and SpaceX could announce a merger before Tesla's annual meeting, which he expects by Dec. 6 at the latest, and warns a later announcement would make a shareholder vote harder to schedule. Neither company has confirmed any talks.
Tesla shares fell about 2.1% on Wednesday, Oct. 14, closing near $367 after touching $363.82, as a hotter-than-expected September CPI report pushed up Fed rate-hike odds and sent the Nasdaq down more than 2%. The stock is now about 4% below its Oct. 9 close with Q3 earnings due Oct. 21.
xAI announced Grok Voice 3.0 on Oct. 14, saying the speech-to-speech model already handles millions of conversations a day in Tesla vehicles. Drivers get multi-stop trip planning, Connectors, climate and Controls by voice, and hands-free Grok Bot.
Tesla's Middle East market lead says the company will officially enter Oman in 2027 and is building a Muscat team from the ground up. EVwire reports three sales jobs already listed on Tesla Careers, including a Store Manager role that points to a physical store.
German broadcaster rbb reports Tesla plans a roughly 536,000-square-meter second production hall at Grünheide, more than double the current one, as part of a 10-year build-out toward up to 1 million vehicles a year. Tesla says the filing builds on its October 2024 permit.
Sunrun says home batteries run by it and Tesla delivered 669 MW on Oct. 5 and a record 745 MW on Oct. 6 during California's heat wave, up from 580 MW in September. Tesla's own dashboard showed 601 MW from 85,774 Powerwall homes on Oct. 6.
Nightpeak Energy says its 150 MW, two-hour Bocanova 2 project in Brazoria County, Texas, built with Tesla Megapack 2 XL units, has been running since Sept. 17. It doubles the site near Alvin to 300 MW on the ERCOT grid.
A Tesla UI engineer says on-demand rear and repeater camera views are 'in development' for the mirrorless Cybercab, and chief engineer Eric Earley says new seats are coming. Neither has a date, and both land as NHTSA presses Tesla on the car's missing mirrors.
A $3.5 million development application for 37 V4 stalls under solar canopies in Thurgoona, just off the Hume Highway, is on public display until Oct. 21. If Albury City Council approves it, the site would more than double Tesla's local stall count and top Goulburn's 20-stall southern-hemisphere record.
Tesla's AI account and Teslascope say pre-2021 Model S and X cars with the Intel infotainment computer are receiving FSD (Supervised) v14.3 Lite for the first time, in software 2026.38.5.1. Official release notes still list Lite only for HW3 Model 3 and Y.
Tesla will livestream the next-gen Roadster demo Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:55 p.m. Central. On the eve of the stream, Elon Musk called it a candidate for the greatest product demo of all time and teased a 'BANGER' demo. Pricing and a production date are still not promised.
Tesla Charging says grid capacity, not construction, is the bottleneck—especially for Semi Megachargers waiting 3+ years in Southern California. PG&E's Flex Connect and new IEEE 2030.5 links on V4 cabinets let sites open on spare power and throttle when the grid is tight.
Tesla is waiving Supercharging fees from Oct. 13 to Oct. 18 at its Gulf Breeze, Destin and Pensacola sites as the region recovers from Hurricane Isaias. No other sites are included, and Tesla hasn't said whether non-Teslas get it free too.
Tesla's transfer pages are back in 17 countries, including the UK, Ireland and Germany, after the Europe-wide rename. The rules: a new car ordered on or after July 18, 2025, an old car you own outright, and telling Tesla before delivery. U.S. transfers ended March 31.
Apollo Power told the Taiwan Stock Exchange it signed with Tesla's Taiwan arm on Oct. 8 for 260 Megapack 2XL units. The filing withheld the contract price; Apollo has separately put total project investment, equipment plus engineering, near NT$13 billion.
Paren says Tesla's average non-member rate climbed 15% year over year to 56.9 cents per kWh, while member pricing rose 9% to 39.6 cents. Tesla still opened 1,287 ports in the quarter, but its share of the national network slipped below half.
Beijing is trimming the VAT refund on exported EVs from 13% to 9%. Nearly half of what Giga Shanghai built this year left China, so the change could cost Tesla hundreds of millions a year unless it raises prices abroad.
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