Day: March 9, 2026

Elon Musk’s xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
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Elon Musk’s xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day

Elon Musk waves to the crowd during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters With Elon Musk’s xAI planning to build a massive, natural-gas burning power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, the state’s environmental authority has scheduled a board meeting for Tuesday — Election Day […]

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Top permitting-reform Republican, Democratic senators meeting as talks thaw: API chief
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Top permitting-reform Republican, Democratic senators meeting as talks thaw: API chief

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) speaks to the media following the weekly policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol on June 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito and ranking Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse are meeting to discuss reforming the federal energy permitting […]

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Warsh to meet Tillis as Senate confirmation remains blocked
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Warsh to meet Tillis as Senate confirmation remains blocked

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) attends a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s annual report to Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 5, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh will meet this week with the Republican senator who has […]

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OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents
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OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI said Monday that it is acquiring the cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, which provides tools to help safeguard and test complex artificial intelligence systems. The Sam Altman-led firm did not disclose the […]

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Watch live: Trump holds press conference as Iran war fallout roils oil market
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Watch live: Trump holds press conference as Iran war fallout roils oil market

[The stream is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump is set to hold a press conference at his Miami-area golf club. The president’s comments at Trump National Doral are coming within hours of him telling CBS News […]

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss

CEO, Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 5, 2025 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky | Getty Images Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Monday that she will be stepping down and transitioning to the company’s chief innovation officer. […]

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Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
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Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is no longer planning to expand its partnership with Oracle in Abilene, Texas, home to the Stargate data center, because it wants clusters with […]

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FBI obtains records of Arizona Senate audit of 2020 Maricopa County election results, Republican says
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FBI obtains records of Arizona Senate audit of 2020 Maricopa County election results, Republican says

People deposit their mail-in ballots for the US presidential election at a ballot collection box in Phoenix, Arizona on October 18, 2020. Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty Images A federal grand jury issued a subpoena for records of the Arizona state Senate’s audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County, the Senate president said […]

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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried
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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried

Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last August, Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, a former Uber executive and attorney, took on the added role of overseeing the Defense Department’s artificial intelligence portfolio. A […]

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Trump tells CBS that Iran ‘war is very complete’
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Trump tells CBS that Iran ‘war is very complete’

US President Donald Trump speaks during a “Saving College Sports” roundtable in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 6, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday told a CBS News reporter that the war against Iran could be over soon. “I […]

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