Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley Summary Startup Job Bolt runs AI avatars that conduct pre-screening interviews: an employer writes questions, the…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, which pairs students with…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic has widened restrictions to block its services from companies majority-owned by entities in countries it…
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 is likely to concentrate wealth…
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…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Content summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pumps Seine water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug-Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed an AI agent called A2 that automates vulnerability discovery and validation 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…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has paused a planned electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate and launched a 60-day review…
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…
