Judge lets NAACP's lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines proceed, rejecting the 'mobile source' defence
The case concerns turbines at a Southaven, Mississippi plant powering xAI's Colossus 2. The court has not ruled on whether xAI broke the law.
The case concerns turbines at a Southaven, Mississippi plant powering xAI's Colossus 2. The court has not ruled on whether xAI broke the law.
A federal judge on 30 October 2026 denied xAI's motion to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit alleging that xAI ran gas turbines without air permits at a Southaven, Mississippi plant powering its Colossus 2 data centre.
Policy & RegulationNvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt for the 460 MW West Virginia data centre building that Nscale is constructing for Anthropic, The Information reported on 29 October 2026.
Chips & ComputeState Bank of India told stock exchanges on 21 October 2026 that it had an incident involving loss of certain data, after CERT-In and the Defence Cyber Agency alerted it on 16 October.
AI in India · Based on an unconfirmed reportAlphabet shares fell 12.6% on 29 October 2026, its biggest one-day fall since its 2004 listing, after third-quarter capital spending of $51.4 billion left free cash flow at minus $9.1 billion.
Business & FundingApple chief executive John Ternus told Wired in an interview published on 30 October 2026 that Apple doesn't want to "ship AI for AI's sake".
Business & Funding · Based on an unconfirmed report
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| Model | Lab | Context | Input · 1M tokens | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voxtral 3 | Mistral | Yesterday |