Top Stories — Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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- Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference — TechCrunch
- Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports — TechCrunch
- The Forces Behind Nepal's Explosive Gen Z Protests: What to Know — nyt News
Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference
Source: TechCrunch • Published: 9/9/2025, 10:05:47 PM
At the AI Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new GPU called the Rubin CPX, designed for context windows larger than 1 million tokens.
Part of the chip giant's forthcoming Rubin series, the CPX is optimized for processing large sequences of context and is meant to be used as part of a broader "disaggregated inference" infrastructure approach. For users, the result will be better performance on long-context tasks like video generation or software development.
Nvidia's relentless development cycle has resulted in enormous profits for the company, which brought in $41.1 billion in data center sales in its most recent quarter.
The Rubin CPX is slated to be available at the end of 2026.
Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports
Source: TechCrunch • Published: 9/9/2025, 9:56:38 PM
Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports
Tesla has asked the San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland airports about acquiring permits to operate a ride-hailing service at each location, according to Politico.
Tesla appears to have contacted each airport right around the time it started up a nascent charter service in California in late July. In the case of the San Francisco and Oakland airports, representatives told the outlet that they had been contacted, but had yet to meet with Tesla. The San Jose airport spokesperson confirmed no application for a permit had been filed and that Tesla had asked about the permit process.
Tesla currently lacks the proper permits to run a true ride-hail service, let alone a robotaxi network, in California. Instead, it's operating a more-limited charter service. Those are not supposed to involve any autonomous vehicle operations, though videos of the rides have shown that the company's drivers are using its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on the rides being offered. Tesla's FSD (Supervised) is an advanced driver assistance system with some automated driving features that requires the driver to pay attention.
In order to spin up a larger ride-hail service in California, Tesla will need a permit from the California Public Utilities Commission. And if the fleet is comprised of autonomous vehicles, it will also need permits from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
The California DMV is currently trying to stop Tesla from selling vehicles in the state because it believes the company has made far-too-aggressive promises about its cars' self-driving abilities.
Airports are often picky when it comes to allowing new transportation services. A decade ago, they were a battleground for Uber and Lyft, companies that were trying to edge in on the business of traditional taxis and limousine services.
In recent years, airports have become a target of budding autonomous vehicle services.
Tesla began testing the first version of its invite-only robotaxi network in Austin, Texas with around a dozen cars. It has expanded that network's boundaries to cover much of the greater Austin area, though the company still appears to have just around 20 to 30 cars in operation, and has moved the "safety monitor" to the drivers' seat.
Texas does not require as much transparency as California does when it comes to testing autonomous vehicles, so it's difficult to say how well it's gone for the company. There have been a number of documented problems, though no major crashes or other incidents.
Sean O'Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News where he helped break stories about some of the most notorious EV SPAC flops. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
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The Forces Behind Nepal's Explosive Gen Z Protests: What to Know
Source: nyt News • Published: 9/9/2025, 9:52:29 PM
The protests in Nepal's capital escalated as they went into a second day on Tuesday, as anger and disappointment that had built up for years among the protesters were ignited. The government's ban on major social media platforms a few days earlier had only lit the fuse.
Declaring themselves to be the voice of Nepal's Gen Z, the protesters were expressing not only outrage at the official violence that met them on the streets on Monday, but also at longstanding social problems that have afflicted Nepal during the 10 years since it replaced its monarchy with a democratic republic.
The country relies heavily on the remittances that an estimated two million workers abroad send home. The social media ban had the effect of isolating families from their faraway breadwinners.
The government repealed the ban on Tuesday after protests, and Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and other ministers later resigned. But the unrest continued, as protesters set fire to government offices and to politicians' homes.
The country's biggest slow-burning crisis centers on jobs. Getting one is a herculean task in Nepal, a mountainous nation of 30 million sandwiched between India and China. According to the Nepal Living Standard Survey published by the National Statistics Office in 2024, the unemployment rate was 12.6 percent.
Those figures tend to understate the severity of the problem. They represent only participants in the formal economy, leaving out a majority of Nepalis, who work without officially reported jobs, mostly in farming. And the unemployment is heavily concentrated among younger adults.
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