Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic, the San Francisco AI startup, has widened restrictions on who can access its services to block companies majority-owned by…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth among a small…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris’s district cooling system, which pipes Seine water to cool around 800 buildings including the Louvre, is facing reduced effectiveness…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, a beta AI “debate” programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to see if…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational Expedition 501 drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30 miles off…
Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year Summary Microsoft is offering US college students a complimentary one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal. The package…
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 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 a lawsuit…
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 are…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop providing 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the last regular release…
