Content summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth among a small elite while impoverishing large numbers of workers. Speaking to the Financial Times, Hinton…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on who can access its AI services, now blocking companies that are majority-owned by entities from…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help de-escalate heated…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind Expedition 501 drilled as deep as 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30 miles…
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 a…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI-powered agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery for Android…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Content Summary Mozilla has announced it will drop 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the final regular release…
Summary President Donald Trump said his administration will impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that do not shift production to the United States. Speaking at a White House dinner…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney has paused Canada’s planned electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate and launched a 60-day review of…
