But the book that got the most buzz this weekend is the forthcoming novel from MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist who was formerly married to Amazon<\/a> founder Jeff Bezos. Scott, who studied under novelist Toni Morrison at Princeton University and who has previously written two novels, teased her latest work on her personal substack on Saturday, the New York Times reported<\/a>. Scott didn\u2019t share much, but revealed that the book is 317 pages (not including the epilogue) and is titled \u201cLast Days in Two Nations (A History in Eighteen Minds).\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Apparently Scott plans to publish the book serially\u2014which means she may not have to sell it on Amazon! <\/p>\n Today\u2019s news below.<\/p>\n Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n How SpaceX\u2019s most-feared trading day turned into a 6% rally For weeks, SpaceX investors braced themselves for Thursday August 6, when nearly a billion insider and employee shares, about 20% of the company, became eligible to sell at once.\u00a0<\/p>\n With the stock already trading at roughly half its brief post-IPO high, the flood of extra supply\u2014effectively doubling the freely traded float overnight\u2014would only further increase the downward pressure on the stock price, the thinking went.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, after some slight weakness, the stock steadied, and then bounded up 6% higher. So, what gives?<\/p>\n As one former SpaceX worker told Fortune, it turns out that company employees didn\u2019t need an IPO to get paid. After all, the company has run roughly semiannual buybacks for about a decade now.\u00a0 \u201cThese are not people waiting to get their first dollar back,\u201d the former employee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gil Luria, a D.A Davidson analyst, said that expiration of the lockup was also already priced in. \u201cThe stock\u2019s been down almost every day for the last three or four weeks in anticipation of this,\u201d said Luria. Read the full story here<\/a>. \u2014Eva Roytburg<\/p>\n Amazon’s mega gas-burning power plant<\/p>\n As AI companies build massive data centers<\/a> to train and run their latest AI models, many are including private, on-site energy facilities as part of the design. The idea is for the data centers to have a dedicated supply of electricity that’s not reliant on the public grid\u2014and that doesn’t take energy away from everyone else who relies on the grid.<\/p>\n Amazon is taking the concept to the next level. The company is investing in a project to build a massive natural-gas burning power plant in West Texas, according to a report in The New York Times<\/a>. According to the permits reviewed by the Times, the plant in Pecos County will be capable of generating 7.65 gigawatts of power through its 35 natural gas turbines. At full scale, the plant would be allowed to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, making it the largest CO2 emitter of any power plant in the U.S., according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n An Amazon spokesperson told the Times that the company remains committed to its goal of being carbon neutral by 2040<\/a>\u2014a goal Amazon has struggled to meet because of the AI boom\u2014even with the new power plant, and noted that the company was exploring using solar energy and battery storage at the data center that would be fed by the natural gas power plant.<\/p>\n Amazon isn’t the only tech company to face scrutiny over its data centers’ energy supply. SpaceX recently entered into an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to remove the 69 temporary mobile turbines<\/a> in Southaven, Mississippi that are powering its Colossus data center.\u2014AO<\/p>\n Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature<\/p>\n Google halted the rollout of an AI image generating<\/a> feature within its Google Earth satellite imagery service less than one day after its launch.<\/p>\n The feature allowed users to overlay AI-generated scenes onto real satellite, aerial and 3D imagery. Google\u00a0envisioned<\/a>\u00a0legitimate uses such as visualizing planning concepts or historical reconstructions, but users almost\u00a0immediately<\/a>\u00a0began generating fabricated disasters, false military installations and conflict scenes tied to real-world locations.<\/p>\n Google had released the Nano Banana software integration with Google Earth with a few safeguards, but clearly, they were not sufficient. The company said it was rolling back the feature \u201cwhile implementing stronger guardrails.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world,\u201d a Google spokesperson told\u00a0Fortune. \u201cIt\u2019s important to note that generated images didn\u2019t appear in the main Google Earth experience for others\u2026 and were watermarked as AI generated.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Joshua Hong<\/p>\n More tech<\/p>\n \u2014Samsung foldable phone pre-orders jump 30%<\/a>. Good news for Apple?<\/p>\n \u2014Hugging Face hack is now an OpenAI PR crisis<\/a> that\u2019s costing it millions.<\/p>\n \u2014Routers are hot again<\/a>. But we’re talking about AI routers.<\/p>\n \u2014Whatnot is now worth $20 billion<\/a>, and the startup is focused on live commerce not AI.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2280569342-e1786319366688.jpg\"\/)
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