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Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

16 June 2026 @ 10:22 pm

NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

16 June 2026 @ 10:11 pm

Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.

Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes

16 June 2026 @ 9:54 pm

Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.

Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

16 June 2026 @ 9:14 pm

"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

16 June 2026 @ 9:00 pm

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says

16 June 2026 @ 6:48 pm

Trump admin green-lighting $111B deal "reeks of corruption," Sen. Warren says.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

16 June 2026 @ 6:11 pm

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today

16 June 2026 @ 6:00 pm

Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

16 June 2026 @ 4:49 pm

Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

16 June 2026 @ 4:37 pm

Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.