Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will increasingly concentrate wealth in the hands of…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco-based Anthropic is widening restrictions to block its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from certain countries, notably…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, to try to ease heated…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris’s district cooling system, which pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings (including the Louvre),…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational Expedition 501 drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30 miles off…
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 brought…
Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI-powered agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery for Android apps and automatically validates flaws with proof-of-concept…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop providing 32-bit Linux binaries for Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the final standard release…
Trump To Impose Tariffs On Semiconductor Imports From Firms Not Moving Production To US Summary President Donald Trump said his administration will impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has paused a proposed EV sales mandate and launched a 60-day review, effectively…
