Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft, especially eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) and low-altitude drones, are…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary The Nord Stream pipeline ruptures in September 2022 released about 465,000 tonnes of methane. The authors argue that the consequences of such events…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence reports that more than 7,000 chikungunya (CHIKV) cases have been recorded in Guangdong province since July. The authors…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary In a short correspondence, Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault argue that mainstream debates about AI-agent ethics and alignment have so far neglected…
Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom Summary Goldman Sachs forecasts global datacentre capacity to rise from roughly 62 GW today to about 92 GW by 2027 (around…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Graphic designers, illustrators and developers are increasingly getting paid to tidy up the imperfect outputs produced by generative…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI disclosed in a blog post that it automatically scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have converged on Forest City, Malaysia, to attend Network School — a programme created by Balaji…
Summary Oliver McCann, described by the Associated Press as an “AI music creator,” signed with an independent record label after one of his AI‑made tracks reached about 3 million streams.…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A consumer has filed suit against Amazon Prime Video arguing that the service misleads customers by…
