Pins matching posted:2026-09-28

Tesla filed its largest-ever China recall, 2,975,910 Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X cars whose interior emergency door release blends into the trim, fixing it with warning labels and an over-the-air window update.

Oliver County's planning and zoning board held its first hearings on Base Electron's 1,200 MW gas-fired Missouri Bend Energy Center, the plant Babcock & Wilcox is to build for Applied Digital near Center, North Dakota, and tabled all four applications for more information and landowner outreach.

A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed with prejudice the Center for Biological Diversity's suit over BOEM's decision to let Sable Offshore restart Platform Harmony without revising its 1980s development plan, finding the groups lacked standing.

Tesla asked a Ninth Circuit panel in San Francisco to decertify the California classes of Full Self-Driving buyers, arguing there is no proof every class member saw the self-driving claims on its website.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth Muse Spark model in five months, trained for long agentic and coding work and still priced at $1.25 per million input tokens; Artificial Analysis ranks its top variant behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, which it calls the world's most intelligent and aligned model, first to a limited set of organizations and then to paid ChatGPT plans, the API and AWS; it is the first OpenAI model rated Critical for cybersecurity.

Google puts Lyria 3.5, its best-sounding music generation model, into the Gemini app for all users worldwide and into the Gemini API, generating full songs with vocals and lyrics at 44.1 kHz from text or images for $0.08 a song.

Six months after restarting, Sable Offshore began excavating 12 anomalies flagged by in-line inspection on the onshore pipeline that ruptured in 2015, seven of them in the coastal zone; any spot with wall loss of 40% or more must be repaired.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 to every ChatGPT tier, generating images up to 50% faster, and two API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare for fast everyday images and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst for precise editing.

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, an open-weight 552-billion-parameter multimodal model that it says beats its own flagship V4-Pro, and routes all V4-Pro API traffic to it at Flash prices.

Tesla showed its Europe-spec Semi, with camera mirrors, separate headlights and 550 km of range at 40 tonnes, at Europe's biggest commercial vehicle show, where Semi lead Dan Priestley gave a keynote on the truck's European launch.

Google releases two real-time voice models: Gemini 3.8 Live, built for low-cost fluid dialogue that sees through the camera and switches among 97 languages, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which reasons while it speaks and tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech quality index at 82.6.

California's Civil Rights Department began its bench trial accusing Tesla of tolerating widespread harassment, segregation and lower pay for Black workers at its Fremont factory, the first government discrimination case against Tesla to reach trial.

SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, releases Grok 4.7, its most capable model for coding and knowledge work, built on a larger base model and priced like Grok 4.6 at $2 per million input tokens; independent tests still put it well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6.

Seven groups led by the Environmental Defense Center and the Center for Biological Diversity asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn PHMSA's 25 June special permit, which waives corrosion-repair rules for the onshore lines that caused the 2015 Refugio spill.

The ZET SCALE shipper alliance, backed by Microsoft and PepsiCo, picked Tesla as primary supplier for 2,500 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, the largest US electric truck order, nearly doubling the country's electric heavy-truck fleet.

Xiaomi releases and open-sources MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, natively omnimodal models with 1M-token context; Pro scores 46.32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest of any open-source model.

Santa Barbara County's Board of Supervisors voted to send the Senate a letter opposing the House's Hunt Amendment, which would let the Defense Secretary take easements, including by condemnation, along Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline System.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol for coding and agent work and GPT-6 Luna for high-volume tasks, at half the API price of their GPT-5.6 predecessors: $2 and $10 per million tokens for Sol, $0.10 and $0.50 for Luna.

Google releases two text-to-speech models that design new voices from a written description, clone a voice from a 30-second sample with the owner's recorded consent, and take line-by-line acting direction in more than 100 languages.

Oliver County's planning and zoning board voted 2-3 against all four approvals for Base Electron's 1,200 MW Missouri Bend gas plant, the $2.4 billion Babcock & Wilcox project to power Applied Digital's data centres near Center, North Dakota, sending a recommendation to deny to the county commission.

Taylor Swift expanded The Life of a Showgirl with four songs written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback to celebrate its record first week, led by the single 'Patient Zero' and 'Cleveland!', a nod to husband Travis Kelce's hometown.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, which it says runs more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task at the same $2 and $10 per million token prices.

President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET on 28 September 2026 that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa, which the White House calls the largest of its kind in US history and the first mega steel plant built in the country since the 1960s. The plant is due to start producing steel in 2030. Its first phase is put at about 7.5 million tons a year with up to 6,000 construction jobs, rising to 10 million tons a year and at least 1,750 permanent jobs. It will run on iron ore from Mesabi's new mine at Nashwauk on Minnesota's Iron Range, and Iowa lawmakers have discussed tax incentives for a plant in Lee County in the state's southeast. The announcement came weeks before the November midterm elections, as Trump pointed to his 50% steel tariffs as the driver of new US steel investment.

NHTSA's Chief Counsel ordered Tesla to answer 21 questions under oath by 30 September 2026 on how it self-certified the Cybercab, which has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors, as meeting federal safety standards.

The Ninth Circuit has set a hearing in San Francisco on three consolidated petitions by California and conservation groups against PHMSA's takeover of Sable Offshore's onshore pipelines from state regulators and its approval of their restart.

Bruno Mars plays the first of two nights at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, the tour's Bay Area stop between SoFi Stadium and a record five nights in Vancouver.

Google's next flagship model, Gemini 4, is in post-training and being tested inside Google's Antigravity coding tool, and DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants an early version out "much earlier" than the end of 2026; this pin predicts mid-October.

Paul Hyon Kim, who shot out cameras and firebombed Teslas at a Las Vegas Tesla Collision center in March 2025, is due to be sentenced by Judge Jennifer Dorsey after pleading guilty to arson and a destructive-device charge that carry at least five years in prison.

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5, the small, low-cost model of the Claude 5.5 family, is expected in mid-October 2026 after Anthropic said it would follow Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 "in the coming weeks".

Bruno Mars starts five shows at BC Place, the most any artist has played there on a single tour, surpassing the three nights that closed Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Taylor Swift, 36, the youngest songwriter ever elected, joins the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at its 56th anniversary gala at the Music City Center, with Lyle Lovett, Bruce Channel, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller and the late J.I. Allison.

Sable Offshore is expected to report its third-quarter 2026 results, the first quarter with all 77 Harmony and Heritage wells due online and Platform Hondo's planned September restart, against 2H 2026 guidance of 40,000 to 45,000 net barrels of oil equivalent a day.

Terafab's full-scale chip plant is due to start construction on 1 December 2026 at the former Gibbons Creek power station site in Grimes County, Texas, with completion planned by the end of 2028 and an initial $16.8 billion investment.

Bruno Mars begins a five-night run at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros, his only Latin American stop on The Romantic Tour and its last dates of 2026.

A Los Angeles judge is set to hear Tesla's petition to overturn the California DMV's finding that its 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving' marketing was false advertising, a label Tesla wants removed even though it already complied with the order.

Tesla is expected to publish its fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 vehicle production, deliveries and energy-storage deployments on Saturday 2 January 2027, a year after 2025 deliveries fell 8.6% to 1,636,129.

Tesla is expected to report fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results after the market close, most likely on Wednesday 27 January 2027, with its Q&A webcast at 4:30 p.m. Central; the date is announced in the Q4 deliveries release.

Bruno Mars ends a six-city, 12-show Japan dome tour, billed as one of the largest ever, with the second of two sold-out nights at Tokyo Dome.

Bruno Mars begins his 2027 Australia and New Zealand stadium run in Perth, with Tyla and Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee supporting; demand added a second Perth night.

Bruno Mars brings The Romantic Tour to Auckland's Eden Park with Tyla, DJ Pee .Wee and a Silk Sonic set; the first two of three nights have sold out.

Bruno Mars returns to Singapore's National Stadium for four nights, opening The Romantic Tour's 2027 Southeast Asia run with Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee.

Bruno Mars plays the first of four Kai Tak Stadium concerts, his first Hong Kong shows in nearly nine years, with Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee; tickets start at HKD 799.

Tesla plans first European customer deliveries of its electric Semi in 2027: a 550 km, 40-tonne version with camera mirrors and 800 kW charging, first built at its Nevada Semi factory.