Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s India arm has begun offering in-app micro‑jobs to rideshare and delivery drivers that involve collecting…
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost Summary The Department for Business and Trade ran a pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot between October and December 2024…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google has been fined $3.45 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices in its adtech business.…
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market capitalisation has been largely flat at about $25 billion for the past decade, while peers such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website Summary An investigation by Canada’s National Observer, surfaced on Slashdot, reports that Google has quietly removed and demoted its high-profile net-zero pledge from…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is expanding restrictions to block access to its AI services for companies majority‑owned by entities from countries such as…
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 with a small elite while…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate tool developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to see if it…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind global expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
