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The annual Solar Car Challenge, now in its 30th year, brings together high school students to design and build solar-powered cars for a 630-mile road race across Texas, emphasizing STEM education and hands-on engineering skills.
Tesla announces that employee rides for the Cybercab will begin soon at Giga Texas.
A regulatory loophole in Texas allows AI data centers to bypass major air permits, enabling rapid fossil-fuel power plant construction with minimal public oversight, raising pollution concerns for nearby communities.
The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce its App Store Accountability Act, which requires app stores to verify users' ages and impose restrictions on minors. Tech companies like Apple and Google argue the law is a censorship regime that harms privacy.
The article discusses Texas' App Store Accountability Act, which likely imposes content moderation or accountability requirements on app stores, analogized to a bouncer at a bookstore.
Coherent breaks ground on an expanded facility in Texas, backed by a $50 million CHIPS Act grant, to scale production of optical components and compound semiconductors essential for AI infrastructure. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the critical role of optics in enabling large-scale AI systems.
Texas grid operator flags risks to grid stability as data centers and crypto mining sites repeatedly fail voltage tests, threatening power reliability.
Baylor University has approved funding for a new Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Plus (MSAI+) program, focusing on cybersecurity and ethics with a faith-informed leadership component.
Elon Musk announces that the T-zero (launch time) for an upcoming event is currently set to 5:30 Texas time, implying a SpaceX launch from Texas.
Texas Attorney General sues Meta, alleging that WhatsApp misrepresents its end-to-end encryption and that Meta can read user messages. The lawsuit relies on a Bloomberg report about a closed US investigation, but critics note a lack of direct factual support.
A Texas drainage district discovered Tesla's lithium refinery was discharging 231,000 gallons of treated wastewater daily into a ditch without the district's knowledge, prompting complaints and an investigation that found no permit violations but did not test for heavy metals or lithium.
The article reports on the weakening of state AI laws in the US, with Colorado's SB 189 gutting consumer protections from the original AI Act, leaving only disclosure requirements, and similar rollbacks in Texas, California, and New York, while federal AI regulation remains absent.
A University of Texas at Austin report warns that data centers could consume up to 9% of Texas's water by 2040, up from under 1% today, driven by AI and cloud computing growth.
A ranch steakhouse in Buffalo Gap, Texas, has seen about a 20% increase in customer traffic, thanks to business travelers brought by the nearby Stargate data center from OpenAI. Local residents embrace the change, believing the data center brings money and opportunities while preserving the farming and ranching culture.
The city of Abilene, Texas, due to its forward-thinking and need for industrial diversification, became the site for OpenAI's 'Stargate' hyperscale data center. The project brings a new tax base to the barren land, driving community, infrastructure, and education development.