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In a recent filing, Elon Musk's aerospace company requested to build an "orbital data center" that relies on solar power.
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-In December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to plot a course for  the car-sized robot.

-You now select each spec of your new Mac device when purchasing through the website. As first spotted by MacWorld, Apple updated its online configuration tool for purchasing a Mac.

-Grok is once again available in Indonesia, after the country lifted its ban on the AI chatbot that was seen generating millions of sexualized deepfakes, thousands of which included children.
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The project covered 3,000 miles of road in Ohio.
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-The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) last year.

-A few major publications have begun blocking the nonprofit Internet Archives access to their content based on concerns that AI companies' bots are using the Internet Archive's collections to indirectly scrape their articles.

-The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips.
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