Climate Laggards Under Scrutiny In Run Up To Climate Week 2024
Dutch bank ING said this week that it will drop large clients it believes are not making sufficient progress on reducing their climate impact.The announcement comes just days before leaders convene for...
View ArticleHow Six Global Companies Are Transforming To Become Nature Positive
The talk at Climate Week, an annual event hosted by the Climate Group and New York City that takes place in conjunction with the UN General Assembly, focused on how currently only 17% of Sustainable...
View ArticleDeepMind And BioNTech Are Building AI Lab Assistants To Advance Science
In the latest example of how AI-driven technologies are transforming the methods and nature of scientific research Google DeepMind and BioNTech separately announced this week that they are launching AI...
View ArticleBig Tech Triggers The Nuclear Option
Google, Microsoft and Amazon, the hyperscalers driving the swift proliferation of electricity-guzzling data centers to expand their artificial intelligence and Cloud computing technologies, are turning...
View ArticleCreatives And The News Media Escalate Their Copyright Battle With AI Companies
Creatives and the news media escalated their battles with tech companies this week over the use of copyrighted content to build and operate AI systems. At press time 20,000 creatives, including some...
View ArticleNewly Exposed AI Shortcomings Have Serious Downsides
An AI-powered transcription tool widely used in the medical field to help doctors communicate with their patients touts itself as having “human-level robustness and accuracy” But the tool sometimes...
View ArticleComing Soon? Robots With Physical Intelligence
If Physical Intelligence, an AI start-up seeking to create “brains” for a wide variety of robots, has its way, people will be able to ask robots to perform any task they want. The company, which is...
View ArticleAn AI Czar In The White House?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering naming an AI czar in the White House to coordinate federal policy and governmental use of the emerging technology, Trump transition sources told Axios...
View ArticleNew Alliance Aims To Make Large Scale Quantum Computing Cost-Effective
Quobly, a French quantum computing startup, this week announced a collaboration with STMicroelectronics, a Franco-Italian global semiconductor company, to produce quantum processor units at scale....
View ArticleNew Report Weighs The Benefits And Risks Of AI Agents
The first phase of AI was predictive, the second was generative. Now the third wave is here: autonomous AI agents that can not only recommend actions but can reason and tackle multi-faceted projects...
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