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Two years after Elon Musk made Greater Memphis the center of his artificial intelligence ambitions and built out data centers and energy infrastructure at breakneck speed, residents are grappling with undesirable impacts such as noise and emissions from natural gas-burning turbines. Now, public opposition to the SpaceXAI sites, known as Colossus and Colossus II, is providing a blueprint for other communities across the country opposed to AI development.This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul introduced legislation that would halt construction of AI data centers in the state for a year, drawing the ire of US President Donald Trump, an ally…
OpenAI’s Sora may have been shut down, but Google apparently believes there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced updates to Google Vids. This allows you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you, based on the selfies and audio recordings you upload. Additionally, Google announced that it is bringing its multimodal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, allowing users to create videos by combining written prompts with uploaded reference images. Omni mixes these inputs to create the AI video you want. You…
Middle Eastern oil producers are planning to build new pipelines to reduce their dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran attacks oil tankers almost daily and disrupts Gulf oil exports by sea. But analysts said the new pipeline would not eliminate the threat to the region’s energy exports. They said this infrastructure is similarly vulnerable to low-cost asymmetric attacks targeting ships in Hormuz. The United States is supporting Iraq’s efforts to rebuild an oil pipeline that runs from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk through Syria to the Mediterranean Sea, a State Department official told CNBC on Thursday. U.S.…
Netflix The company on Thursday reported second-quarter sales and profits in line with analyst expectations, as Wall Street closely monitors the company’s advertising and engagement metrics. Netflix stock fell more than 8% in after-hours trading Thursday. The streaming giant said engagement with its content was “healthy” and said live events were the biggest draw for its members, who watched more than 97 billion hours of content in the first half of this year. Engagement metrics have come into focus following reports that viewership for Netflix series declined after the first season.But the company announced Thursday that it will reduce the…
alphabet Shares fell 4% on Thursday after reports that the company had postponed the launch of its flagship artificial intelligence model.The search giant’s Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is several months behind schedule due to the company’s efforts to improve performance, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. In particular, the model’s coding capabilities fell short of internal expectations, and it arrived at a time when rivals were performing well. OpenAI and Meta The company recently announced a new AI model that outperforms Google’s current offering at generating software code, according to the report.The company previously announced the Gemini…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit held at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump will focus on alleged threats against the integrity of the U.S. election in a prime-time address to the nation scheduled for Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.It wouldn’t be the first time he’d done that. Since losing to former President Joe Biden nearly six years ago, Trump has maintained that he was the victim of a “fraudulent” and “stolen” election, and has made similar claims about recent…
US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused some members of the Israeli government of trying to influence American public opinion against an agreement to end the war with Iran.In his remarks in an interview with US podcaster Joe Rogan broadcast on Wednesday, Mr Vance delivered a rare and sharp criticism of one of Washington’s closest allies.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listVance defended the deal the US reached last month to end the war with Iran, adding: “We know without a doubt that there are people in the Israeli government who are actually trying to move us away from…
US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused some members of the Israeli government of trying to influence American public opinion against an agreement to end the war with Iran.In his remarks in an interview with US podcaster Joe Rogan broadcast on Wednesday, Mr Vance delivered a rare and sharp criticism of one of Washington’s closest allies.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listVance defended the deal the US reached last month to end the war with Iran, adding: “We know without a doubt that there are people in the Israeli government who are actually trying to move us away from…
Building an AI startup is one thing. It’s quite another to raise the largest seed round of the year before launching a product. On this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield leader Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Andrew Dai, founder and CEO of Elorian and former Google DeepMind researcher, to reveal how his company raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation before generating any revenue or releasing a product. Andrew talks about how investors saw Elorian’s vision for visual AI, how he went about raising capital after leaving Google DeepMind, and why choosing the right…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has served as the lead regulator of event contract exchanges for more than 30 years, beginning with a 1992 ruling against the Iowa Electronic Market, widely known as the first prediction market. With prediction markets now booming, there is growing speculation among legal experts that the CFTC’s sister agency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will soon play a role in this new asset class. “While the CFTC has stated that it has jurisdiction over event contracts, there are some areas where it appears to be more in the realm of the SEC,” said Joe…