Google has quietly removed its prominent net-zero-by-2030 pledge from its sustainability website, demoting the commitment into an appendix, according to an investigation by Canada’s National Observer reported on Slashdot. The…
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market value has been essentially flat at about $25 billion for the past decade while rivals such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
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, marking the…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural-net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that the rise of AI risks concentrating…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has widened restrictions on access to its AI services to block companies that are majority-owned by entities from countries…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, a beta AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help reduce…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs 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 multinational, first-of-its-kind expedition (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 brought…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System – Slashdot Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed an AI agent, A2, that automates vulnerability discovery and…
