A Wells Fargo customer in Texas says the bank has refused to reimburse her after scammers drained $3,300 from her account through the payments platform Zelle. Ashlie Rinehart says she received a call on April 1st from a number that appeared on caller ID as Wells Fargo, reports Fox 26 Houston. She says the caller […]
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Elon Musk's plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC report, SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion into its "Terafab" chip plant in Austin, Texas. That's according to the details of a public hearing notice filed in Grimes County, Texas, for a meeting to request tax breaks for the project.
The company says that if additional phases are constructed, its investment could someday balloon to $119 billion total. When Musk initially announced the project in March, he shared ambitious plans for it to produce enough chips to support up to 200 gigawatts per year of computi …
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SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, according to a filing with Grimes County.
Comprised of prominent people throughout the city, Midland of Tomorrow arrives in the wake of an AI data center approval. Its members hope to ensure AI is properly used.
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman’s home had written at length about the threat of A.I.
Daniel Moreno-Gama is now facing federal charges after allegedly traveling from Texas to California with the intent to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. On April 10th, he was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and attempting to break into OpenAI's headquarters. According to prosecutors, at the HQ, "Moreno-Gama attempted to break the glass doors of the building with a chair and stated that he had come to burn down the location and kill anyone inside."
His charges include "attempted damage and destruction of property by means of explosives and possession of an unregistered firearm," according to the Departmen …
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In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growing
When blue-collar Trump voters and Maga-friendly midwest states join the same cause as Bernie Sanders and liberal California teachers, something novel is afoot. Last month it was the turn of the Republican party in Texas to express forthright opposition to the construction of datacentres for artificial intelligence, pending adequate environmental safeguards for local communities. Across the United States, similar campaigns are being waged, as voters from across the political spectrum rail against the outsize influence and power of big tech.
For the White House, which has made the rapid rollout of datacentres a priority in its AI action plan, the scale of the protests is an unwelcome surprise. One of Donald Trump’s first acts on returning to office was to authorise the deregulated “build, baby, build” approach demanded by the Silicon Valley backers who helped to fund his
