IPOA under Interior Ministry, US eases UAE chip controls, OpenAI loses trademark

A hacker used an employee's credentials to access Suno's source code, revealing that the AI music generator trained on millions of songs scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. The leak provides concrete evidence of what copyright holders have long suspected -- Suno has been opaque about its training data sources, and this disclosure lands the company in a tougher legal position as it faces multiple copyright lawsuits from record labels. For anyone in creative industries, this is further confirmation that the only question is not whether AI companies are scraping copyrighted content, but how much.

SpaceX bonds are trading at 10% below their issue price and heading toward junk bond status, according to the Financial Times. The decline reflects growing market concern about the company's financial trajectory, the capital-intensive Starship development timeline, and Starlink's path to profitability. If SpaceX debt continues sliding, it raises borrowing costs for the world's most valuable private company and could affect Starlink's expansion timelines -- including in African markets where it has been steadily gaining subscribers.

Google's largest-ever clean energy project -- a massive solar and battery installation -- sits just 40 miles north of xAI's unpermitted gas power plant in Memphis, creating a stark contrast in how AI companies approach their energy needs. Google's project represents the tech giant's push to match data center power consumption with 24/7 carbon-free energy. Meanwhile, xAI faces regulatory scrutiny for running gas turbines without proper permits to power its Colossus supercomputer cluster. As AI infrastructure demands continue to strain grids, these two approaches illustrate the widening divide in how companies handle the environmental cost of compute.

Eutelsat has filed regulatory plans for its Next LEO satellite constellation, totaling 528 satellites in low-Earth orbit. The new fleet is designed to expand the satellite operator's broadband and IoT connectivity capabilities, competing directly with Starlink and Amazon's Project Kuiper. For African markets where satellite internet is increasingly filling gaps in terrestrial coverage, more competition in LEO connectivity could mean better pricing and availability. The filing signals that the satellite internet gold rush is far from over, even as Starlink already dominates the market.

Nissan is discontinuing the Altima after eight years without a redesign. The sedan -- once one of the best-selling cars in America and a staple of rental fleets -- was slated for an electric replacement that never materialized as Nissan's EV transition plans stalled. For used-car buyers, this means Altimas will eventually become harder to find and remaining examples may hold value better as the supply of affordable used sedans shrinks. For Kenyan importers, the phase-out of models like the Altima, following the Jetta's end last week, reduces the pool of popular affordable used sedan options from overseas markets.