Summary President Donald Trump said his administration will impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that do not shift production to the United States. He described the tariff as “very…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has paused a planned electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate and opened a 60-day review…
America’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations Summary Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, closing its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan and abandoning plans for a…
Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business Summary Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro is finding practical use in specific enterprise niches, according to a Wall Street Journal report…
Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa Summary This paper maps and quantifies street-access deficits across sub-Saharan Africa using a continent-scale dataset of building footprints, OpenStreetMap street networks and…
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 after a complaint from the European Publishers…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer of neural‑network research, told the Financial Times he expects AI to…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has announced it will expand restrictions on who can access its AI services, blocking companies that are majority-owned by…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate programme developed at Carnegie Mellon, to help ease heated one-on-one conversations between…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling system that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
