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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-08-30: 1. Musk builds his own power plant for AI Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will cast his own gas turbine blades to bring power online 18 months faster for AI data centers — with a pollution problem. 2. Texas freezes funding for Flock AI surveillance cameras Texas Governor Greg Abbott froze state funding for more Flock AI surveillance cameras amid growing backlash over mass tracking without oversight. 3. Caterpillar brings mining autonomy to AI deployment Caterpillar is applying decades of experience automating remote mining sites to the deployment of AI systems. 4. Lambda borrows $1 billion to buy Nvidia chips Neocloud Lambda raised $1 billion in debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft, underscoring the capital intensity of the AI buildout. 5. Nvidia's advantage moves beyond the GPU Nvidia's edge in new data-center systems now comes from smarter traffic control between chips, not just faster processors. Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-08-30.html