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TEXAS GOVERNOR-ELECT CALLS FOR HALT TO NEW DATA CENTERS Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa wants data-center development paused until new laws protect residents. “We need to stop what we are doing with data centers until we have those protections,” she told CNN. Hinojosa also said Elon Musk’s companies can operate in Texas, but on her administration’s terms, despite Musk backing her Republican opponent.

Big news! SpaceX has just officially announced that they are partnering with Qualcomm to help build @Starlink Mobile's nationwide terrestrial 5G network, with deployment beginning in 2027. Under the multi-year agreement, SpaceX plans to deploy tens of thousands of cellular sites across the U.S., powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing infrastructure technology. Details: • Qualcomm will supply its Dragonwing QRU100 and QDU100 platforms to power Starlink Mobile's 5G base stations. • The network will use advanced 64T64R Massive MIMO technology to improve coverage, capacity, and spectrum efficiency. • Energy-efficient processing will help reduce power consumption and improve network deployment economics. • The infrastructure will support multiple spectrum bands and lay the groundwork for future AI-native 6G technology. SpaceX says its goal is to build the first fully integrated nationwide satellite and terrestrial mobile network, combining traditional cell towers with its satellite constellation to keep customers connected virtually everywhere. This is a BIG step toward SpaceX becoming a full-fledged nationwide wireless carrier, directly competing with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. New competition is coming to town.

The Dutch vehicle authority (RDW), which often sets standards that influence much of Europe, announced today that it has approved several changes to @Tesla's FSD (now called Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe). What's changing: • The maximum allowable speed offset is being reduced from +50% to +10%. • The speed offset will reset to 0% when the vehicle starts, with other speed-related functions disabled by default. • Tesla will roll out the changes through a software update. • FSD (Supervised) will be renamed Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD) in the vehicle interface, manuals, and driver information. Tesla formally renamed it to TAD a few weeks ago. • This update applies to the Tesla models running Tesla Assisted Driving and hardware version 4.0 (HW4) and above. RDW says its assessment found no adverse or unintended effects on the system's operation or the vehicle's driving behavior. The approval process for TAD to get approval throughout the European Union is still ongoing within the European Technical Committee for Motor Vehicles (TCMV). The information shared within the TCMV and the conversations that take place there are confidential.

Google is using AI to design the very systems that run it. Partha Ranganathan, VP and engineering fellow at Google, explains how the company approaches AI infrastructure and how AI is being used in software development, including security and automatic bug fixing.

Want even more evidence that @Tesla FSD is going mainstream? Here’s 2016 F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg after recently trying FSD (Supervised) for the first time: "It's been LIFE-CHANGING! My scarcest resource currently is time. And now, I was able to get some of that time back on the commute. By the evening, it actually felt like I'd won back half a working day!! I even had a mini date with my wife on the drive. My whole racing career, I was the one in control behind the wheel. But I'm now fully willing to hand over control!! It’s crazy that 75% of new Teslas delivered in North America last quarter came with FSD. In Europe, we’re still way behind on this tech. And we for sure need to move faster!!" More info: evwire.com/p/nico-rosberg-te…

I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model. Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching. We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards. As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!

OPENAI REPORTEDLY PLANS TO BUY GOOGLE AI CHIPS OpenAI plans to purchase AI chips from Google ($GOOGL), according to The Information, citing a person familiar with the matter. Financial terms and the size of the potential deal were not disclosed. Reuters has not independently verified the report.