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6 articles First covered May 7, 2026, latest Aug 3, 2026
The Minneapolis federal courthouse, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, photographed from below against a pale sky.
Policy·

The first US ban on nudify apps took effect after a judge denied xAI's freeze

Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.

Lead image from the Axios story about Anthropic's $15B SpaceX compute deal
AI·

SpaceX's S-1 revealed who's paying for Colossus. Anthropic just locked in $45B through 2029.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for Colossus 1 and 2 capacity. The contract runs through May 2029 and books about 83% of SpaceX's revenue.

Elon Musk speaking at the World Economic Forum.
Policy·

A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.

Aerial view of a large data center facility with cooling systems
Policy·

Residents can't sleep. 29 million gallons vanished. Oregon sent the bill. Data centers are losing the neighborhood.

Three data center stories trended in one week: infrasound, 29M gallons of missing water, and Oregon forcing grid cost pass-through.

Cartoon Claude Code terminal flexing two muscular arms against a terracotta background
AI·

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's limits by renting 220,000 GPUs from xAI

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour limits, killed peak-hours throttling, and raised Opus API tiers. The capacity comes from xAI's Colossus 1, via a SpaceX deal.

Elon Musk speaking at an event, with Tesla and SpaceX branding behind him
Hardware·

SpaceX filed for a $55B Texas chip fab. Total Terafab spend could hit $119 billion.

SpaceX filed plans for a $55B Terafab semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas. Total spend could reach $119 billion across phases.