28 October 2026

Musk's company wants to buy 418 homes near its power plant - if owners stay out of a noise lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI, now operating as SpaceXSI, is offering to buy homes from residents of the Colonial Hills neighborhood in Southaven, Mississippi, on the condition that they do not join a class-action lawsuit over noise from its power plant, The Guardian reports. A recording of a conversation with a real estate agent indicates the company wants to buy 418 homes, and 18 owners have already agreed. The homes are to house its employees. The company denies the claims in the lawsuit, and the mayor says city monitors have not detected a breach of the 70-decibel limit.

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Instagram comes to Apple TV with Reels, longer videos and live shows

Instagram has released an app for Apple TV, MacRumors reports. It lets you watch Reels, longer videos from creators and live shows, and start a video on one device and finish it on another. The app requires tvOS 26. Instagram previously released apps for Fire TV, Google TV and Samsung smart TVs.

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Anthropic warns in its S-1 that upcoming models could soon dramatically speed up AI work

Anthropic warns in its amended S-1 that its upcoming models could soon dramatically speed up AI work and thereby cross a threshold the company set in its own safety policy. The company says no current model exceeds that threshold and that building the next ones is to remain under human control. TechCrunch reads the warning as a sign that Anthropic is close to AI that improves itself.

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