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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use
By Jowi Morales last updated
Microsoft Copilot's terms of service explicitly say that it's "for entertainment purposes only," but its marketing says otherwise.

Analyzing Elon Musk's TeraFab — A step towards Tesla and SpaceX's partial vertical integration, or an unattainable dream?
By Anton Shilov published
Premium Raising trillions of dollars and building 150+ fabs in a few years?

Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims
By Anton Shilov published
But for TeraFab, money is not the only limitation.

SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality
By Jowi Morales published
Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to help achieve his dreams of putting AI data centers in orbit, with a goal of hitting 100 gigawatts of compute in space.

Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 2 is nowhere near 1 gigawatt capacity, satellite imagery suggests — despite claims, site only has 350 megawatts of cooling capacity
By Anton Shilov published
Not enough cooling, apparently.

U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits
By Jowi Morales published
The EPA just closed a loophole that allowed hyperscalers to quickly deploy power generators without requiring a permit.

Musk to expand xAI's training capacity to a monstrous 2 gigawatts with third building at Memphis site
By Jowi Morales published
Elon Musk has announced that xAI has purchased a third building at its Memphis, Tennessee site to bolster the company's overall compute power to a gargantuan two gigawatts.

Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years
By Jowi Morales published
Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says AI compute in space will be the lowest-cost option in 5 years — but Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a 'dream'
By Anton Shilov published
AI is flying high?

Musk challenges legendary AI researcher Karpathy to an AI coding showdown against Grok 5 — gets a polite 'no' to an IBM Deep Blue-like showdown
By Luke James published
Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue.
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