Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertilizer Shortages, Study Finds Summary A Cornell study published in PNAS finds that converting solid human excrement into biochar could supply up to…
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market Summary Ford is investing heavily to bring lower-cost electric vehicles to market. The company will spend $2 billion to retool its…
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Summary In an uncommon arrangement tied to export licences, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give…
EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway Summary The European Commission has given conditional approval for Prosus’ £4.1 billion (US$4.8 billion) acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway,…
GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving programme, aiming to build an “eyes-free” driverless car for consumers. Sterling Anderson,…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary President Trump publicly reversed course days after demanding Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation over past ties to China. Following a…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues that U.S. law should grant estates a time-limited right…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona) analyse recent work and a new preprint (arXiv:2508.01191) that scrutinises chain-of-thought (CoT) LLMs. They conclude…
Summary IBM Cloud suffered a Severity One outage on 12 August 2025 that left customers unable to access services and resources. IBM’s incident log shows engineers began investigating at 12:59…
GitHub No Longer Independent at Microsoft As CEO Steps Down Summary GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours. Instead of naming a direct…
