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AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East - @…
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/
Altijd heerlijk hoe een blad als de telegraaf dan reageert op het constateren vsn nep nieuws:
'After contacting De Telegraaf, an explanation for the photo’s removal was added at the bottom of the article, stating that the photo did “likely not meet our journalistic guidelines.” '
De hele afloop: 📸

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/elon-musk-xai-permit-for-mississippi-plant-de…

Elon Musk's xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns
Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.

#Spam in my inbox is bad enough, but *wrong* spam boils my blood.
The Auteurs launched in the UK in 2007, then rebranded as #MUBI in 2010.
Of course, #TheMonthly may’ve meant MUBI became available in Australia i…

"Just buy printed books"
Just build an annex to my house to hold the 4,000 books my wife has on her Kindle
(By the by we have plenty of printed books, probably 500–1,000 or so, and yes we regularly donate books too.)

Luma: KI-Agenten für kreative Projekte von Audio über Video bis Print
Die Web-App Luma erstellt Audio-, Bild- und Videoprojekte mithilfe von KI-Agenten – vom Brainstorming über die Planung bis hin zur Auslieferung.

Anthropic hired Google’s
book-scanning chief to
cut up and digitize hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-pr…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

This is clearly timed to take the heat off Mahmood after he introduced legislation to slash $100 million a year in funding for affordable housing.
There’s a new streamlining bill or measure every year, and we’re clearly hitting diminishing returns. Meanwhile all over the city thousands of affordable homes are stalled for lack of funding. Want to speed up housing? Fund it.

S.F. supervisor to ‘explore’ ballot measure to speed up housing
Bilal Mahmood wants to address the bottlenecks created by having five separate departments involved in issuing building permits

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/mississippi-regulators-to-…

Elon Musk's xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
The NAACP has accused Mississippi regulators of rushing a meeting to approve xAI plans for a massive, methane-burning power plant in Southaven.

California voters are receiving mailers promoting a 'poison-pill' ballot measure aimed at nullifying a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets. The countermeasure, backed by Silicon Valley billionaires including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, would override the tax even if both pass in November. The clash reflects a broader surge in billionaire political spending, which reached $3 billion nationally in 2024 and is reshaping policy battles at state and federal levels
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