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xAI Weeks Away from Firing Up Second Memphis Site
Today, xAI released a statement concerning Colossus 2, its second data center here in Memphis:
“In mid-February we broke ground at our new data center at Tulane in Shelby County, Tennessee. We have begun deploying the initial phase of computing infrastructure.
“This initiative includes the installation of an additional 110,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, powered by a diverse array of energy sources, similar to Colossus. We are building similar redundancies for Colossus 2 that mimics the success we’ve seen at Colossus.
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries Are Back⇢
Back in January, Apple disabled Apple Intelligence notification summaries for news app after a string of high-profile incidents of the feature rewriting headlines to be incorrect. With iOS Beta 4, the feature is back, as Chance Miller writes:
When you update to iOS 26 beta 4, you’ll see a new setup flow that allows you to choose to enable notification summaries for the “News & Entertainment” category of apps.
If you choose to enable summaries for News & Entertainment apps, you’ll see a warning in bright red text: “Summarization may change the meaning of original headlines. Verify information.” There is also an option to report concerns with notification summaries directly to Apple.
Sponsor: Hello Weather⇢
One of the most beloved indie weather apps just got a major redesign for 2025, and it’s worth checking out as your new daily driver. The whole app has been modernized and rebuilt from the ground up, and it feels great.
Hello Weather has always been known for its simple, friendly, super readable design, but the new update pairs that simplicity with more depth, sophistication, and powerful new features.
Cortex 169: John Gruber – State of the Workflow⇢
Myke is running a series on Cortex called “State of the Workflow” where he is interviewing folks making interesting things. This month’s episode is excellent. John wrote about it:
We spoke for a long time, and at some point like halfway through, it really hit me that Hurley was asking really good questions. If you’re interested in how I work and the tools I use, you should enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed participating in it.
xAI Purchases North Mississippi Site⇢
It appears that xAI has purchased the former natural gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi that the company was eyeing for electricity generation. Samuel Hardiman, for The Daily Memphian:
The land, a former natural gas plant located at 2875 Stanton Road, is just off Tulane Road, which also extends north into Memphis and is the same street that houses the company’s second supercomputer in Whitehaven.
The 114-acre property has been a swirl of activity for months. The Daily Memphian has observed xAI workers and contractors at the site for weeks. On Tuesday, July 15, Brent Mayo, an xAI executive, said “everything is on the table” in regard to the site and acknowledged the company’s work there.
Microsoft’s Mac Lab⇢
In a group chat earlier, a buddy of mine brought up Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit and I had a flashback to this 2006 blog post by David Weiss:
I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll give them a tour of the Mac Lab and explain what we do. They’ve always found it very interesting and so I thought I’d share a virtual tour of our Mac Lab.
Calm Down, CarPlay
This morning, I pressed the little button on my Tacoma’s steering wheel to trigger Siri in CarPlay. I asked it to start a text to Myke Hurley. As you can imagine, this is something I do often when driving.
Instead of asking me what I wanted to say, Siri inquired about what app I wanted to use. The list of apps it offered was incredible.
Sadly, sending a message via the app for my studio’s mini-split system doesn’t work. All of this, and I’m not even running the beta of iOS 26 on my primary phone yet.
Apple Reseller Training: The Power Macintosh⇢
If you were an Apple Reseller in 1994 and were curious about Apple’s move to the RISC-based PowerPC platform, this video was for you:
Ars Technica Spent a Week with CarPlay Ultra⇢
Michael Teo Van Runkle drove a Aston Martin DB12 Volante for a week for a blog post. As one does.
The Shelby County Health Department Accused of Cherry-Picking Clean Air Act to Benefit xAI⇢
As previously reported, the NAACP and Southern Environmental Law Center have been planning to sue xAI over its use of gas-burning turbines to power its datacenter in Memphis. As Ashley Belanger writes at Ars Technica, the groups are appealing the new government-issued permit by which 15 of the turbines are operating:
In their appeal, the NAACP and other groups argued that the SCHD put xAI profits over Black people’s health, granting unlawful exemptions while turning a blind eye to xAI’s operations, which allegedly started in 2024 but were treated as brand new in 2025.
Apple Seminar: The Power Macintosh⇢
If you were a professional Mac user in 1994 and were curious about Apple’s move to the RISC-based PowerPC platform, this video was for you: