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Four chip-supply items from 8–9 October 2026: GlobalFoundries tops out a €1.1 billion Dresden expansion and plans an "FDX Fusion" platform that still needs German approval; Lumentum's CEO tells Bloomberg its optical parts are "completely sold out" through early 2029, even after a 12-fold capacity increase in Japan; Unisem proposes a RM396 million packaging expansion in Malaysia; and AI chip-design start-up Phinity raises a $5.2 million seed. What is confirmed and what is a claim.

Four defence-tech items from 8–9 October 2026: EOS signs a conditional £370m counter-drone contract with an unnamed Gulf state, Shield AI says the US Navy added $150 million for X-BAT, a Senate bill proposes Pentagon reporting rules for large AI contractors, and the Indian Army orders 225 FPV drones. What each says, and what it doesn't.

An NVIDIA tutorial shows OpenAI's Codex coding agent turning a Jetson Orin Nano into a self-starting kiosk that captions a live webcam feed with Google's small Gemma 4 E2B model, running on the device. What the demo shows, what "No Mac required" means, and why local inference matters.

Manus raises more than $500m after Beijing blocked Meta's takeover. Tab emerges at a $300m valuation. Nvidia reportedly discusses another $1bn for Figure. ElevenLabs says it has passed a $600m run rate, and Synthesia launches Syren in beta. A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds most Americans think government is not taking AI risks seriously enough.

A Tesla Cybercab lost a door panel in a Philadelphia crash, with fault unknown and no Tesla AV certificate in Pennsylvania. Updated 10 Oct with the Texas registry count, NHTSA's 30 October deadline and Tesla's own claim of 300+ Cybercabs serving Austin. What is reported, what is confirmed, and what we don't know. Waymo, XPENG and Pony.ai/Uber stories now have their own posts.

Mecka AI raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia to pay people to record everyday tasks as robot training data. Parallel Systems closed a $100M Series C for battery-electric autonomous freight rail. What each company confirmed, what is company claim, and what is still missing.

Boston Dynamics has appointed former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective 7 October 2026. What the company confirmed, what Hyundai's 2028 Atlas factory target means, and what is still unknown.

Waymo’s own blog says it is adding a silver Ojai variant with interior trim updates, a wireless phone charger, new seats and rear armrests, ramping production in Mesa, Arizona, with rider service due first in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

A GlobeNewswire release says CEVA Logistics has put Sereact’s Cortex dual-arm robots into live Zalando fashion-returns handling at Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, under a Robotics-as-a-Service model after Zalando’s July 2026 Series B investment.

Multiply Labs’ company release says it raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks to scale robotic GMP manufacturing clusters for biologics, bringing total capital raised to over $100 million.