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Volvo Cars expands its NVIDIA tie-up for door-to-door automated driving with Hyperion, Halos OS and Alpamayo. No launch date or model in the release.

RJ Scaringe says Rivian's cars will run AI agents from companies like Anthropic, but agents won't control brakes or steering. No date yet.

Vietnam's Green SM has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles using VinFast VF 8 cars, its first market in the US, the company says.

Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25 million led by Hitachi Ventures to use AI to make specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China.

AZIO AI says Power Champion contracted 10 MW at its Atlas One campus in Texas, with rights to 50 MW. Nothing is energized and no start date is set.

Dubai's RTA began a four-week Glydways pod pilot at Bluewaters. Capacity and cost figures are RTA claims; dates, fares and public access are unclear.

Arafura says it broke ground at its Nolans rare earths project in Australia's Northern Territory on 8 October. It is the start of construction, not production.

BenchLife reports, citing China's Board Channels, that AMD raised GDDR6 prices for card makers from 1 October and Intel adjusted too. Nobody has confirmed it.

IDC's preliminary data show worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year on year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units, and 9.1% from Q2. IDC blames supply constraints and stockpiling "ahead of memory-driven price hikes", links higher prices to the AI data-centre build-out, and says "Prices will remain elevated." What the figures show, and what they don't.

Volkswagen has unveiled the ID. Tiguan, the electric successor to the ID.4 and ID.5. It is not on sale yet: pre-sales open in Germany and other European countries on 13 October from 42,695 euros, with launch "as early as the beginning of 2027". The figures VW gives, and what its traffic-light feature is and isn't.