Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa Summary This paper maps and quantifies street-access deficits across sub-Saharan Africa using a continent-scale dataset of building footprints, OpenStreetMap street networks and…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has announced it will expand restrictions on who can access its AI services, blocking companies that are majority-owned by…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer of neural‑network research, told the Financial Times he expects AI to…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling system that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate programme developed at Carnegie Mellon, to help ease heated one-on-one conversations between…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind global research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI-driven agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery and automatically…
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought by a group of book authors, according to a court filing. Plaintiffs’ attorneys…
Summary President Donald Trump told reporters he will soon impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that are not shifting production to the United States. He spoke ahead of a…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop providing official 32-bit Linux (i686) builds of Firefox in 2026. Firefox 144 will be the last…
