Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is restricting access to its AI services for companies majority‑owned by entities from countries it considers potential adversaries, notably…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times that AI risks concentrating wealth in the…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by two Carnegie Mellon researchers, to see if it can…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A recent three‑month research mission, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pumps water from the Seine through heat exchangers to cool about 800 buildings,…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed an AI agent, dubbed A2, that automates discovery and validation of…
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 by…
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…
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 mainstream release…
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 and launched a 60-day review of…
