EPA shuts down xAI's off-grid turbine loophole at Musk's Colossus data center in Memphis

The Southern Environmental Law Center had argued last year that xAI's turbines were operating without proper air quality permits. The organization claimed the company was incorrectly ...
Data Center Frontier

xAI’s AI Factories: From Colossus to MACROHARDRR in the Gigawatt Era

From a converted factory in Memphis to a planned $20B, 2-gigawatt campus in Mississippi, Elon Musk’s xAI is building “AI ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...
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World’s first free-flying light sail deployed by US students for sun-powered propulsion

A Cornell student's light sail, which weighs only 0.2 pounds, was released from the International Space Station by astronauts ...