Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a pause to Canada’s planned electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate while the government…
Trump To Impose Tariffs On Semiconductor Imports From Firms Not Moving Production To US Summary President Donald Trump told reporters he plans to impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies…
Apple’s Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business Summary Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro is finding practical, paying use in specific enterprise niches rather than as a mass-market device.…
America’s First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations Summary Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, closing its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan, and abandoning plans for a…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while…
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 anti-competitive behaviour in its adtech business, following a…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco-based Anthropic has widened restrictions on access to its AI services to block companies that are majority-owned by entities…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind Expedition 501 drilled up to 1,289 feet (~393 metres) into the seabed 20–30…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Networks of pipes and heat exchangers use Seine river water to cool buildings across Paris, including the Louvre. The district…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help de-escalate heated…
