America’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations Summary Natron Energy, a US developer and manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, including its production facility…
Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business Summary Apple’s US$3,500 Vision Pro is starting to find practical, expense-justified roles inside specific enterprise niches rather than as a…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, was built by two independent Israeli security researchers and used an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0)…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion for anti-competitive behaviour in its adtech business. The decision,…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while…
Summary Anthropic, the San Francisco AI startup, is expanding restrictions to block its services from companies that are majority-owned by entities from countries such as China, including their overseas subsidiaries.…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Content Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate programme developed at Carnegie Mellon University that pairs students with opposing…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that draws Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings —…
Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year Summary Microsoft is offering a free one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal for all US college students.…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational, first-of-its-kind research cruise—Expedition 501—drilled up to 1,289 ft (~393 m) into the seabed…
