An NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit says xAI, now SpaceX's AI unit, built and is running a gas-turbine power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, that powers its Colossus 2 data center without a Clean Air Act permit. The suit cited 27 turbines when filed in April; SpaceX says 69 temporary turbines now power the site. A judge refused this week to let the Justice Department dismiss the case. SpaceX has said the turbines are temporary, mobile units it will remove by July 2027 as a permitted plant comes online.
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Epic Games has announced the AI MegaJam, a November 12-15 event where creators will build games in four days using AI tools with Unreal Engine and UEFN. The jam offers cash prizes plus development continuation grants of up to $50,000 for standout projects.
Anthropic says Claude, working with Theorem, formally proved that 239 fuzz-test entry points across 123 OSS-Fuzz libraries never crash on inputs under 64 MB. The proofs run to about 180 million lines of Rocq and hold only under stated assumptions. The effort also surfaced bugs that years of fuzzing had missed.
Capcom says about 11.77 million CAPCOM ID records were exposed, each with an email address and login metadata. 43 also exposed birth date, gender, country and nickname, and 196 accounts had passwords changed without authorization and reset. Capcom says it has not confirmed any compromise of customer-set passwords, and credit card information was not included.
Tesla is building its own maps to fix recurring FSD problems with speed limits, parking, and routes. The change reverses the company's prior stance that map-dependent systems are brittle.
Microsoft researchers report in Science that MAI-DxO, running on GPT-5, beat generalist physicians on simulated, text-only cases from past emergency-department records, 80% to 47%. No real patients were involved, in the open-book arm physicians could use search and reference tools such as UpToDate and NICE guidelines, but not generative AI such as ChatGPT or OpenEvidence, and GPT-5 alone scored 76.6%.
