25 Jun 2026
Sen. Blumenthal demands Tesla be held accountable for alleged self-driving crash
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is calling for Tesla to be held accountable for its role in a fatal crash last week in Texas in which police say a driver was using his Model 3’s assisted driving system before it slammed into a brick house, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila.
25 Jun 2026
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman—which reportedly did not paint him in a favorable light. Alongside Google DeepMind’s $75 million brand-new partnership with indie film studio A24, how much of a dent is AI actually having in the films we see? They also dive into the recent upheaval of…
25 Jun 2026
Is A24 Still Cool?
Cool is a slippery thing. One minute you have it, the next minute it’s out your hands like a water balloon. For an older generation, Marty Scorsese epitomized cool. That hasn’t been the case for a while — I’d say sometime after The Wolf of Wall Street and before his third consecutive manicured period drama. When he made a deal a few weeks ago with an AI startup and enthused how he’d use it to…
25 Jun 2026
On Semiconductor strikes $7 billion deal for Synaptics in physical AI push
On Semiconductor has agreed to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7 billion all-stock deal to bolster its push into physical artificial intelligence technology.
25 Jun 2026
A Fatal Tesla Crash in Texas Sets Up a Legal Showdown
On a Texas evening last week, a 76-year-old grandmother named Martha Avila was standing in the front room of her suburban home when a Tesla Model 3 hurtled into her brick home at a reported speed of over 70 miles per hour, killing her.
25 Jun 2026
Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access
For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their payload to space. Through its Falcon 9 Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions, SpaceX offered frequent, reliable and inexpensive transportation to sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits. But now worry is setting in.
25 Jun 2026
Amazon-Backed Agility Robotics Goes Public in Quest to Scale Humanoids
Although the adoption of humanoid robots within supply chains remains few and far between, one developer is hoping to jumpstart the technology’s expansion by going public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, merger. Agility Robotics will merge with publicly traded special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI, valuing the combined firm at $2.5 billion. With the…
25 Jun 2026
IBM’s Announces 0.7nm Process Node, Introduces NanoStack
This is one of our classic deep dives here at More Than Moore that we’ve made free for all our readers. If you find this work useful, please consider subscribing to the substack at any level you feel comfortable and sharing the content. Or if you prefer video, you can find our podcast and other videos over at our YouTube channel . Thank you to all who are already subscribed, it really means a…
25 Jun 2026
How This New Fintech Billionaire Is Cashing In On Cross-Border Payments
It took Jack Zhang 10 startups to figure out what he truly wanted to do. His most recent one, Airwallex, turned him into a billionaire. Zhang launched the fintech payments company in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, and found a niche helping global companies pay offshore vendors and employees.
