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A day after xAI announced it was pausing plans to build a graywater treatment facility to cool its South Memphis supercomputer, company head Elon Musk tweeted that X would complete the job after it had finished building its Colossus 2 data center in Whitehaven.
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Cambodia is recognizing the life-saving contributions of a rat named Magawa with a statue. The late rat sniffed out landmines for a non-profit group, and in a short career helped find more than 100.
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More than one million people have fled their homes in Lebanon amid ongoing Israeli bombardment.
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