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SpaceX Plans to Remove xAI's Illegal Turbines, But Not Until Mid-2027

The company running Elon Musk's AI data centers near Memphis says it will tear out 69 unpermitted gas turbines, replacing them with a permanent power plant. Nearby residents, already living in one of the most polluted regions in the US, will wait at least two more years for that to happen.

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Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine

The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.

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BP Puts North Sea Business Up for Sale as Middle East Crisis Squeezes Oil Markets

The British energy giant is seeking a buyer for its North Sea operations after a spike in oil prices, caused by Iran closing a key shipping route, forces a rethink of where it invests.

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Reddit had a great quarter. So why did its stock drop 10%?

Strong revenue, strong profit, strong guidance. None of it mattered once investors heard two words: 'choppy traffic.'

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Kimi K3 is now fully open, but bigger companies face a licensing catch

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released the full downloadable model files for Kimi K3 this week. Researchers and small companies get broad rights. Enterprises should read the fine print before deploying.

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Amazon's cloud business is booming. But whose money is paying for it?

Amazon beat earnings forecasts and raised its spending plans to $220 billion. Investors cheered. The catch: a lot of that cloud revenue flows straight from AI companies that are still burning cash.

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A 24-Year-Old's AI Hedge Fund Just Lost $35 Billion. Here's How It Happened.

Situational Awareness LP bet everything on artificial intelligence stocks, called it obvious, and watched its value collapse from $45 billion to $10 billion in a matter of weeks.

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LinkedIn adds a 'seems like AI slop' button so users can flag fake-sounding posts

The Microsoft-owned professional network is blocking hundreds of thousands of automated comments a day and scrapping its own AI writing tool, because its members want to hear from real people, not bots.

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Rolls-Royce and the AI gold rush: how smart software is powering an unlikely comeback story

The British engine-maker's stunning recovery has many causes, and artificial intelligence tools are quietly becoming one of them. Here is what that means for the company's future.

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Meta says AI is cutting the time it takes to build new apps, with more launches on the way

Mark Zuckerberg told investors AI now speeds up product development across Facebook, Instagram and gaming, and that a fresh wave of consumer apps is already in the pipeline.

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Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft: Why AI's Next Problem Is Waste, Not Power

The AI industry spent years racing to build smarter models and buy more chips. A quieter problem is now taking shape: the expensive hardware sitting in data centres is often doing very little, and nobody has been asked to fix that.

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Nscale pays $1.65 billion to buy AI software startup Anyscale

A British AI cloud company is snapping up the team behind a popular tool for running big AI workloads, in a bet that owning the whole stack, from servers to software, is where the money is.

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There Are Only 2,000 Engineers in America Who Can Actually Make AI Pay Off

A new study says demand for the specialists who plug AI into real business workflows is about to surge by 2,100 percent. The problem: there aren't nearly enough of them.

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MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale

A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Lineup: Amazon, Replit, Tether and More Will Take the Stage in October

The three-day San Francisco conference runs October 13 to 15 and brings together some of the biggest names in AI, crypto and hardware. Tickets are up to $300 cheaper if you move before the pricing window closes.

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