Summary Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro is finding practical, high-value uses in narrow enterprise niches despite mixed consumer reception. The Wall Street Journal report highlighted examples at Lowe’s (kitchen visualisation), Dassault…
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 antitrust breaches in its adtech business, following a…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that the rise of AI will concentrate…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded its restrictions to block AI services for companies majority-owned by entities in countries it deems adversarial —…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to reduce tensions among…
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 —…
Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year Summary Microsoft is offering a free one-year Microsoft 365 Personal subscription to all US college students. The…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Overview A multinational research expedition (Expedition 501) has recovered freshwater samples from an aquifer beneath the…
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 claims brought…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI-powered agent that automates discovery and validation of vulnerabilities…
