Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that the rapid advance of AI risks concentrating wealth in…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco-based AI start-up Anthropic has announced it will block access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, a beta AI debate tool developed at Carnegie Mellon, that pairs students with opposing views…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling system that pumps water from the Seine through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings,…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Key Points • A global research effort, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the…
Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors who allege the company…
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…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32-bit Linux support 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 announced plans to impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that do…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney has paused Canada’s proposed electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate while the government conducts a 60-day…
