Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself?
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market value has stayed roughly flat at about $25 billion over the past decade while rivals such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website
Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website Summary Canada’s National Observer reports that Google quietly removed its high-profile net-zero pledge from its sustainability site. The company had previously declared ambitious…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and deep‑learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth with a…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices
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 practices in its adtech business, finding that…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI-driven debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to reduce…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on access to its AI services to bar companies that are majority‑owned by entities from countries…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling system that pipes Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool about 800 buildings, including…
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5bn to settle a class action brought by book…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Summary Steven Levy profiles Eliezer Yudkowsky, a central and polarising figure in the AI-doom camp, and examines his argument that advanced…
Should AI Get Legal Rights?
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary Model welfare is an emerging field that examines whether advanced AI models might be conscious and, if so, what moral and legal obligations humans…