Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions to block access to its AI services for companies majority‑owned by entities from countries it designates…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times he expects AI to…
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…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling network that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings —…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate tool developed at Carnegie Mellon, to see if it can ease heated…
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 both discovers and validates vulnerabilities in…
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 said his administration will impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the last standard release…
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 to build…
