Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion for anti‑competitive practices in its adtech business, following a complaint from the European Publishers Council. The decision is the latest…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on who can use its AI services, declaring that companies majority‑owned by entities from certain countries…
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 widespread deployment of AI will…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, a beta AI dialogue tool developed by two Carnegie Mellon researchers, to see if it…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A major international expedition (Expedition 501), funded by the US National Science Foundation and a…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Networks of pipes and heat exchangers move excess building heat into nearby rivers and lakes. Paris’s district cooling system uses…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have built A2, an AI-powered agent that automates discovery and validation of vulnerabilities…
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…
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…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32‑bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026. The final 32‑bit release will be Firefox 144,…
