DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn Summary DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) programme has set…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Summary AI firm Anthropic has agreed a proposed settlement to create a $1.5 billion fund to…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google has been fined $3.45 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour in its adtech business.…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told the Financial Times that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is restricting access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from countries it considers adversarial, explicitly calling…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, a Carnegie Mellon-developed AI debate programme that pairs students with opposing views for one-to-one conversations…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Networks of pipes and heat exchangers use river water to cool buildings in Paris, including the Louvre. The district cooling…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research effort, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle litigation…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI agent that automates discovery and validation of vulnerabilities…
