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‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise

Several homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – to sell their houses to his company and make way.Real estate

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Tesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan

Musk says ‘there’s a lot of merit’ to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but he declined to elaborate Investors were paying close attention to Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday afternoon, after chief executive Elon Musk floated the idea of merging the car company with his rocket and

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The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world

As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our livesThis was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it hereHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at

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AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’

The $48bn giveaway by company, which is preparing to list on stock market, comes amid concerns about the techAnthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its stock market listing.The company announced

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Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event

The Tesla Roadster 2 drove up a curved ramp before using SpaceX rocket thrusters to fly, flip and landElon Musk has revealed Tesla’s latest model, which he claims will be the world’s first flying car, using technology from his aerospace company SpaceX to “basically fly like a rocket”.The billionaire, who hosted a demonstration of the

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SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’

Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, is making her second trip to the space stationFour astronauts rocketed into orbit on Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he is away.SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and

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Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

US president also issued executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’ Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed onto a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal, called the “Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities,” following a White

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‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Billionaire in interview with the Economist admits he was too consumed by politics and shares predictions about AIElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).The world’s richest person, and

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SpaceX and AI startup wealth fuels demand for private jets

Newly minted rich and those anticipating huge IPOs are fueling buying and charter spree in the private jet sectorSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Aviation lawyer Amanda Applegate skipped her annual vacation last month as a surge of wealth from AI startups and SpaceX sent a wave of tech investors shopping for

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Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops

Falling shares push tech mogul back down to billionaire ranks after SpaceX IPO made him world’s first trillionaireElon Musk was no longer a trillionaire by the time markets closed on Wednesday. Plunging shares in Tesla and SpaceX dragged the tech magnate down to billionaire status. As of 4pm ET, Forbes listed Musk’s net worth as

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