
The Guardian - 1 hour 56 min ago
NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in Mississippi Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from its enormous datacenters, which house its supercomputers and run the chatbot Grok. The new pending suit alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act and was filed Friday by the storied civil rights group the NAACP. The group's 40-page notice of...

The Hill - 3 hours 12 min ago
The NAACP on Friday threatened to sue Elon Musk's AI company xAI, claiming that gas turbines powering a company data center are polluting communities in Mississippi and Tennessee. "Our communities are not playgrounds for corporations who are chasing profit over people. xAI's first data center is already creating pollution for Mississippi's neighbors in Memphis ...

CNBC - 4 hours 5 min ago
Law firms representing the NAACP sent xAI a notice of intent to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations in Mississippi.

CNBC - 4 hours 29 min ago
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 model that created the viral Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fight videos got the attention of Elon Musk.

CNBC - 5 hours 4 min ago
The essay exploded across platforms like Elon Musk's X, prompting a range of praise and criticism from readers.

Mother Jones - 5 hours 38 min ago
Elon Musk, who formally distanced himself from the White House last year, hasn't stopped trying to influence American politics. Musk took a step away from the Department of Government Efficiency the agency he crafted and wielded against long held federal spending practices. But, contrary to what some expected, that didn't signal indefinite distance from Republican politics […]...

UPI - 7 hours 16 min ago
Brazilian authorities ordered that Elon Musk's Grok must stop generating sexualized content involving minors and adults without consent.

The Guardian - 8 hours 44 min ago
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows. Thermal footage captured by Floodlight via drone shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Mississippi , despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state...

The Hill - 8 hours 47 min ago
Tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed Anthropic on Thursday as "misanthropic and evil," after the AI firm announced its latest round of funding. Musk, who owns a competing AI company xAI, alleged that Anthropic's AI "hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men." He did not point to any specific examples. "This is misanthropic and...

Slate - 8 hours 57 min ago
It's not Greenland, and it's not good.

Forbes - 9 hours 7 min ago
The files include email exchanges with Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick and other billionaire associates.

Newser - 9 hours 48 min ago
Washington's quiet bet on Elon Musk's satellites in Iran turns out to have been much bigger than previously disclosed. US officials say the Trump administration secretly moved about 6,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals into Iran after security forces there crushed mass protests in January, killing thousands and sharply limiting...

Fortune - 10 hours 55 min ago
New documents released by the Justice Department reveal Epstein pairing at least one of his "girls" with Kimbal Musk, as a path to get to Elon Musk.

Newser - 13 hours 27 min ago
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it's now valued at $380 billion, cementing its position alongside rival OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX in a trio of the world's most valuable startups that investors will watch closely this year to see if they'll become publicly traded. "These are the three biggest names...

Vox - 14 hours 29 min ago
After allowing AI bots to train using their content, there are questions about the future of Wikipedia's human-powered identity. | franckreporter/Getty Images If you grew up with computers in your classroom, there's a good chance you heard this instruction before starting a research paper: Don't trust Wikipedia. The reasoning? Anyone can go in and make changes to a Wikipedia page. This is mostly true , though pages that are subject to a high amount of abuse or vandalism can be locked...