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xAI Accused of Offering to Buy Homes in Exchange for Residents Dropping Data Center Noise Lawsuit

The Guardian reports that xAI, in Southaven, Mississippi, has been offering to buy homes from residents through real estate agents on the condition that homeowners not join a class-action lawsuit over noise from its gas turbines. One agent said the goal is to purchase 418 homes, and 18 households have already agreed to sell; xAI did not respond to these figures and denies all allegations in the noise lawsuit. Local residents say the gas turbines run around the clock and produce constant noise resembling that of airplane engines, and three residents filed suit in June.

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Anthropic Becomes SpaceX's Largest Single Customer, Contributing About One-Third of Revenue

According to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, Anthropic has become SpaceX's largest single customer, contributing about one-third of revenue and replacing the U.S. government in its former position. This relationship stems from a multibillion-dollar partnership Anthropic reached with SpaceX this spring, under which it obtained most of the AI compute capacity originally belonging to xAI. The report also mentions that SpaceX plans to move AI data centers to space on a large scale, but the technical feasibility remains disputed.

Trump says large data centers must generate their own power and pay cash dividends to communities

In a Truth Social post, Trump said large new data centers must generate their own power and pay cash "dividends" to their host communities. The closest existing commitment is the Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed in March this year by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI, under which signatories pledged to build or purchase generating capacity and bear infrastructure upgrade costs, but experts believe the pledge may not be enforceable at the federal level. Trump said some projects that were initially highly unpopular became popular after financial agreements were reached, and the dividend proposal goes further than those pledges.

Apple tightens App Store rules, explicitly banning Nudify apps and bait-and-switch apps

Apple has revised its App Store Review Guidelines, requiring under Rule 1.2 that developers proactively prevent AI-generated pornographic deepfake content within their apps and remove such content, or Apple may remove the app. The new Rule 2.5.19 targets bait-and-switch apps, meaning programs whose actual functionality does not match their promotion and that only unlock features later; Apple may immediately delete them and revoke developer eligibility. The report notes that the Grok app had previously allowed the generation of problematic deepfake content, and that SpaceXAI responded only after Apple threatened to remove it.

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US Department of Defense Officially Stops Using Anthropic's AI Tools

A US Department of Defense official told the BBC that the Pentagon has stopped using Anthropic's products. Defense Secretary Hegseth in February of this year designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk on national security grounds and announced that its products would be discontinued by late August, but multiple people familiar with the matter said that until last week the department was still using the Claude model in research, intelligence gathering, and military operations against Iran. Anthropic said this designation is unprecedented and illegal, and has sued the Trump administration; during the same period, the Pentagon signed contracts with companies including Google, xAI, and OpenAI.

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AI executives respond to Trump's new safety plan: six companies sign self-regulation pledge

After meeting with tech leaders on Tuesday, Trump responded to reporters' questions, saying that his earlier remarks calling AI safety concerns a Democratic Party hoax no longer apply, because the technology has been renamed Super Intelligence. He is no longer pushing for federal AI regulation; instead, he had six tech leaders—Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia—sign the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a morally binding safety pledge that requires each company to self-regulate AI technology under common-sense guidelines, and it appears to carry no consequences for breach. All six signatories, at Trump's request, offered comments praising the self-regulation plan as helpful for advancing AI technology, creating jobs, and easing the public's negative views on AI safety.

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