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Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to dodge to air pollution regulations for one year. The NAACP, which has filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in the area, says the unchecked emissions from the turbines is worsening air quality in an already polluted region. This week, it asked the court for an injunction against xAI. At…

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“It was severely downgraded,” Gilbert confirms. “I never would have found it if I was just looking through Google results.” (I tried the same prompt in Gemini earlier this month, and after an initial denial, the tool also gave me Eiger’s number.) After this experience, Eiger, Gilbert, and another UW PhD student, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva, decided to test ChatGPT to see what it would surface about a professor.  At first, OpenAI’s guardrails kicked in, and ChatGPT responded that the information was unavailable. But in the same response, the chatbot suggested, “if you want to go deeper, I can still try a…

“RAMageddon” – a term used to describe the global shortage of Random Access Memory (RAM) spurred on by the demands of AI data centres – is causing tech companies of all shapes and sizes to sweat.And, while the focus at present has been on the consumer impact, any small business providing laptops, phones and other expensive hardware to their staff may see sharp price increases in the coming months if they need to replenish their stock.Some sectors, like hospitality, may also find that POS systems and card machine prices tick up sharply, as these machines also rely heavily on RAM…

Fidelity International, a global asset manager with about $1 trillion in client assets, has launched a tokenized liquidity fund assessed by Moody’s Ratings.The new Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ) is issued on blockchain infrastructure linked to Chainlink and was launched through Sygnum Bank’s tokenization platform.According to Sygnum, the fund received a AAA-mf assessment from Moody’s Ratings, a designation used for money market funds that signals strong credit quality and liquidity.“This marks an important milestone in the evolution of capital markets, demonstrating how tokenized liquidity products can bring high-quality, yield-bearing liquidity on-chain in a regulated and scalable way,” said Fatmire…

Location : The M25 clockwise between junctions J24 and J25 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 18:45 and 19:00 on 13 May 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 30 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Wednesday 13 May 2026 5:28 pm Wes Streeting is reportedly set to trigger a leadership contest. Sir Keir Starmer is set to face an imminent leadership challenge from health secretary Wes Streeting, according to reports, as Labour’s infighting explodes into open war.The Prime Minister attempted to use the King’s Speech – setting out his legislative agenda for the year ahead – to regain the initiative, promising “radical change.”But minutes before King Charles entered parliament on Wednesday morning, it was reported in The Times that Streeting would resign from the Cabinet as soon as today and announce that 81 Labour MPs…

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Counsel for Conradh na Gaeilge contend the ongoing failure to implement a strategy cannot be justified, and that Mr Lyons is in breach of an obligation to put a strategy in placePádraig Ó Tiarnaigh, Cuisle Nic Liam, Conchúr Ó Muadaigh from Conradh na Gaeilge pictured with Gary Duffy ((KRW LAW) pictured at the High Court this morning (Image: Presseye/Stephen Hamilton)An Irish language strategy will not be implemented during the current Stormont Executive’s lifetime, the High Court heard today.The Department for Communities has confirmed there are no current plans to deliver the long-awaited blueprint before the power-sharing mandate ends next year,…

In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was sworn in and testifying before Congress about the regulation of artificial intelligence. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana heard his ideas about licensing advanced models and asked if Altman might be qualified to run a hypothetical AI regulatory agency. “I love my current job,” Altman said, to titters. “You make a lot of money, do you?” Kennedy asked him. “No, I’m paid enough for health insurance, I have no equity in OpenAI,” Altman assured him. “You need a lawyer,” Kennedy replied. Now Altman has many lawyers, who watched as their client suffered a…