Greg Abbott — the governor who spent two years selling Texas as the AI industry's epicenter — has paused new data center interconnections to the state grid until regulators audit how much of the queued load is real.
In its first earnings report as a public company, SpaceX burned $16 billion in the second quarter against $7.8 billion of revenue, driven by $18.4 billion in capital spending that is largely going into AI data centers rather than rockets.
An OpenAI model turned up a counterexample to the unit distance problem in May; DeepMind then claimed four more Erdős problems solved and nine forgotten solutions recovered, and two researchers cleared further conjectures with off-the-shelf GPT-5.2. Noga Alon's response — that there's now 'no point' in humans chasing these — is the part mathematicians are arguing about.
Robinhood Ventures Fund II lists August 13 at $25 a share and holds secondary stakes in Y Combinator companies. It carries 2-and-20 plus expenses — total load just over 4% — and there's no sign YC blessed it.