Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot, Grok, is notorious for polluting the “cloud” with sexual deepfakes and racist content. But in the Memphis metropolitan area, it’s under fire for literally polluting the air. Grok’s “supercomputer” is located in massive data centers on the Tennessee-Mississippi border, powered by dozens of gas-burning turbines emitting harmful particulate matter linked to asthma, lung cancer and heart attacks. In April, the NAACP sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, claiming the fleet of turbines violates the Clean Air Act, by taking advantage of a loophole of sorts: Because their turbines are technically on wheels, Mississippi law considers them “portable” and not subject to permitting constraints,…
While there is seemingly no end in sight for the war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Iowa to campaign for a Republican candidate. Retired Lt. General Mark Hertling, Executive Editor of The Nation John Nichols and New York Times Opinion Contributing Writer Molly Jong-Fast join Katy Tur to discuss.
A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn’t broken the law as they pressed them into deals.
Meet the Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters. This remarkably preserved 16th-century merchant vessel sat undisturbed off the coast of St. Tropez for 500 years before the French Navy stumbled onto it by accident during a routine sonar mission. On this episode of “Hot Take with Jesse Weber,” we take a deeper dive into one of the most extraordinary underwater discoveries in years and bring in Dr. Tracy Fanara to help unravel the mysteries still surrounding it.
