Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic, the San Francisco AI startup, is expanding restrictions to block its services for companies majority-owned by entities from countries…
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, including…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI discussion tool developed at Carnegie Mellon, to help de-escalate heated campus debates. Sway…
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…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research expedition, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop shipping 32-bit (i686) Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the last regular…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed A2, an AI-powered, agentic system that discovers and validates vulnerabilities in…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney has paused Canada’s planned electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate while the government conducts a 60-day…
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…
America’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations Summary Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations. The company closed its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan and has cancelled…
