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xAI's Grok API experienced a service disruption affecting endpoints in the eu-west-1, us-east-1, and us-west-2 regions. The company's status page displayed live monitoring data showing degraded or unavailable service across these regions, though detailed incident information was limited at the time of reporting.
Lego revealed a near 1:1 scale replica of the original 1995 PlayStation console during Sony's State of Play livestream, made up of 1,911 pieces and measuring 10.5 inches wide. The set includes a matching controller with working mechanical buttons and hidden mini dioramas based on Ape Escape and Gran Turismo. It launches October 1 for $180.
House Democrats are preparing oversight plans for 2026, including using appropriations power to pressure Trump aides and family members to comply with subpoenas if they retake the majority. Targets reportedly include funding for Trump's West Wing renovations and a proposed triumphal arch in Washington. Rep. Jamie Raskin said Congress controls the purse strings for federal buildings and can block further alterations to the White House.
A clean-energy development is being built on 500 acres of a West Virginia strip mine that was abandoned two decades ago, combining solar power generation with both lithium-ion and zinc battery storage systems. Google is supporting the project, which aims to extend the availability of renewable electricity further into nighttime hours than conventional battery setups typically allow.
TechCrunch is recruiting more than 100 volunteers for Disrupt 2026, its flagship startup conference running October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Volunteers must commit at least 12 hours during the event, attend an in-person orientation on October 12, and be at least 18 years old, in exchange for free three-day admission. Applications close September 25.
A team of astronomers, led by Sarah Burke-Spolaor at West Virginia University and Michelle Ntampaka at the Space Telescope Science Institute, posted an unreviewed white paper on arXiv outlining four archetypes for research groups to help them decide how to use AI tools like large language models. Rather than proposing a single universal policy, the framework maps each lab type against its research priorities using a radar-style diagram to suggest which AI applications, from code generation to writing assistance, best fit its values.
Court documents and industry estimates show major games like The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West cost over $200 million each, while Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War topped $700 million across its life cycle. GTA VI, in development for nearly a decade, is expected to surpass all of these figures even before factoring in its eventual online mode.
Alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was taken into custody by ICE on Thursday and has now been deported to the United Kingdom, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed. Yiannopoulos, a British citizen, entered the US legally in 2019 but overstayed his visa and skipped an immigration court hearing, prompting a final removal order issued on July 22.
SK Hynix held a groundbreaking ceremony at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, for its first U.S. facility, a $4 billion plant dedicated to packaging high-bandwidth memory chips. CEO Kwak Noh-Jung said the site will become a key American production base for HBM by 2030, with its first cleanroom expected to open in October 2028, though actual chip manufacturing will still occur in South Korea and China.
Aker's stock surged after the company disclosed that its affiliate Nscale secured a $45 billion contract to supply AI compute capacity from its Monarch data center site in West Virginia. The deal marks a major win for Nscale's push into large-scale AI infrastructure.
A new study attributes roughly half of the water depletion driving the American West's crisis to emissions from just 122 fossil fuel and cement producers, including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell. The research is described as the first of its kind to quantify how specific corporate emitters contribute to regional water loss tied to climate change, rather than treating drought as an isolated natural phenomenon.
Anthropic has agreed to a roughly $45 billion cloud computing arrangement with Nscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure firm, to lease about 460 megawatts of capacity at a planned West Virginia data center. The facility, expected to go live by late 2027, will run on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips and adds to a string of recent infrastructure agreements Anthropic has struck with AMD, SpaceX, Google and Broadcom.