Bank Holiday round-up
Reuters reports that Mississippi has asked an appeals court to reassign a judge over an 'error-plagued' AI-assisted ruling, highlighting concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in judicial d…
Reuters reports that Mississippi has asked an appeals court to reassign a judge over an 'error-plagued' AI-assisted ruling, highlighting concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in judicial d…
Satellite observations from NASA's TEMPO instrument detected nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from the SpaceXAI Colossus 2 power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, averaging 730±185 kg per hour after Febr…
Representative Frank Pallone, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has formally demanded Elon Musk provide documents on the environmental and public health impacts of xAI's …
A Mississippi college professor caught 32 of 35 students using AI on a midterm assignment by hiding the word 'Madagascar' in white text within the instructions, which only appeared when copied. The pr…
SpaceX is offering Memphis residents a 50% discount on Starlink internet service amid backlash over its Colossus AI data center's energy use and emissions. The promotion, which includes waived hardwar…
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting a challenge backed by President Donald Trump. The decision upholds laws in over half the s…
Elon Musk's xAI installed 27 unpermitted gas turbines in a Black Mississippi neighborhood to power its Colossus data center, and the Trump DOJ moved to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the project, citin…
At least 57 off-grid natural gas plants with 73 gigawatts of combined capacity are being built to power AI data centers across the US, often bypassing environmental review. xAI's Colossus facilities i…
The US Justice Department filed to intervene in a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI on June 16, arguing that unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center are essential f…
The U.S. Department of Justice on June 16 asked a federal court to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit against xAI's Mississippi data center, arguing that shutting down unpermitted natural gas turbines would thr…
The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit by the NAACP against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that enforcing pollution regulations at its Mississippi data center could threaten n…
The Department of Justice and Mississippi moved to intervene in an NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over alleged unlawful operation of methane gas turbines near Memphis, arguing that xAI's AI mod…
The Department of Justice intervened Monday in an NAACP lawsuit challenging xAI's operation of 46 unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Mississippi, arguing that halting th…
U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock disqualified all four attorneys from a breach-of-contract case and barred two out-of-state counsel from appearing in the Northern District of Mississippi for two yea…
A federal judge in Mississippi sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a dispute over solar project fees—for submitting court filings that contained fake, AI-hallucinated legal citations. U.S. D…
A federal judge in Mississippi canceled a trial and disqualified all four lawyers involved after discovering that attorneys on both sides of a contractual dispute used artificial intelligence to gener…