Summary Natron Energy, an early US developer and manufacturer of sodium‑ion batteries, has announced the immediate cessation of all operations. The company closed its manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan and…
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 and launched a 60-day review of…
Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business Summary Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro is starting to find real, paying use cases in specific enterprise niches. The Wall Street…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested conversational persuasion tactics on a large language model (GPT‑4o‑mini) and found those techniques…
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 AI will concentrate wealth among a…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion for abusing its dominance in the online advertising technology…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI-led debate tool developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to see if it…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has announced widened restrictions that block its AI services from companies majority-owned by entities in countries it classes as…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A three-month international research effort, 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 pipes water from the Seine through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings,…
