[8/6 18:00] SpaceX and Tesla confirm Terafab site in Grimes County, Texas with $16.8 billion first phase (LEAD) / OpenAI removes message limits for free ChatGPT users and says weekly users reached one billion

AI News Flash for August 06, 2026 at 18:00 UTC. Topics: 1. SpaceX and Tesla confirm Terafab site in Grimes County, Texas with $16.8 billion first phase (LEAD) https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/tesla-and-spacex-will-invest-16-8b-to-start-building-terafab-chip-factory-in-texas/ 2. OpenAI removes message limits for free ChatGPT users and says weekly users reached one billion https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-chatgpt-upgrades-luna-free-paid 3. DeepSeek restarts its second funding round seeking nearly $8 billion at a 500 billion yuan valuation https://www.zawya.com/en/world/ai-shaping-digital-future/deepseek-resumes-funding-round-seeking-nearly-8-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-423914 4. Samsung and SK Hynix shareholders push for bigger payouts from a $263 billion cash pile https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/analysis-samsung-sk-hynix-shareholders-042824815.html 5. One in five US workers use AI for tasks once handed to colleagues, Epoch AI and Ipsos poll finds https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-work-replace-chat-tasks-used-colleagues-poll-finds-rcna590641