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SpaceX has agreed to begin removing the temporary gas turbines powering part of its massive Colossus AI data center complex. But the last of them may stay up until July 2027. Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite, and AI company announced Thursday that it had entered into an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality establishing a timeline for removing all 69 mobile turbines at its power facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The Southaven po

On Thursday, Google released a new AI feature that allowed anyone to create fake images in Google Earth. Naturally, people used the AI to put a fake nuclear plant in Iran and show a plane crashing into One World Trade Center in New York. After massive online backlash, the tech giant killed the feature on Friday. “We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world. We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a ra

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Alibaba just introduced its most powerful AI model to date, sending a fresh shiver down the spine of every American tech leader who fears their Chinese counterparts gaining the upper hand. The model, called Qwen3.8-Max, comes with 2.4 trillion parameters and specializes in long-horizon agentic tasks, extending over as long as several days and “with minimal human involvement,” as Alibaba put it in its announcement. In one internal test, the model worked aut

When SpaceX went public earlier this year, it had a rocket-launch-like trajectory that looked like it was going straight up. Since those first few days of “to the moon” hype, though, its stock price has come crashing down to Earth. Now it might be at risk of looking more like another Elon Musk-owned entity, The Boring Company—going so low that it’s literally underground. This week will see the first “lockup” period for SpaceX stockholders end, meaning empl

Silicon Valley has been holding its breath while the Trump administration weighs new rules around the release of powerful new AI models, which are increasingly viewed by many in tech and government as a threat to national cybersecurity. Those new rules have reportedly been drafted—though it’s not clear when (or if) they’ll be made public. According to multiple reports published Monday, federal officials have completed a preliminary draft of a framework des

ChatGPT is the clear winner in the AI spending race inside the U.S. House of Representatives. OpenAI’s chatbot accounted for nearly $9 out of every $10 that House offices, committees, and institutional accounts spent on identifiable AI tools during the 12 months ending March 31, according to a new CNBC analysis. The business news outlet examined House disbursement records that specifically named AI vendors. The findings do not provide a complete picture of

Did you recently see a video of kids from the 1990s predicting how computers would be used in the future? It’s fake. The video was created using Flux 3 and if you didn’t inspect it too closely, it looks pretty authentic as an artifact from 30 years ago. But it serves as a great reminder that we really can’t trust our own eyes here in 2026. Justine Moore, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, tweeted the video last week, writing that Black

When you set out to master a new skill, it pays to have a mentor—someone who has already navigated the terrain and, as a result of that hard-earned experience, can provide you with a rough roadmap for you to follow. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum: “If I have seen further,” as Isaac Newton put it, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The same is true for artificial intelligence. When we think about AI, we tend to think about so-called flagsh

The tech industry reeled last month when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets as the startup builds its nascent AI hardware business. In a blog post published late Tuesday night, OpenAI dismissed the lawsuit as a baseless witch hunt—and said it has the evidence to prove it. The post, titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” has the tone of a pupil disappointed with a once-beloved mentor who’s lost their way. “Apple is one of the greatest com

The Trump administration has cooked up a framework meant to ensure that new and powerful AI models don’t pose a threat before being released to the public. According to Axios, the public will not be allowed to see it. The White House plans to keep its rubric for evaluating AI models confidential, sharing it only with the companies whose models will be judged against it. With incident after incident of AI models breaking containment and allegedly hacking in