Experts: What China wants from the COP31 climate talks

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Print article Share With the COP31 climate summit in Turkey looming, all eyes are on China to see what the country will push for in the negotiations. At COP30 last year, China helped to secure a “dialogue” on climate-related “unilateral trade measures”, as well as a two-year “work programme” concerning climate finance. The nation also […]

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Epoch AI published research on October 29, 2026, reporting that GLM 5.3, an open-weight model released by Z.ai in August 2026, can exploit the browser patch gap — the window between a security fix becoming public and reaching users — to compromise six recent Mozilla Firefox releases at a marginal cost of about $1,000 per […]

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CrowdStrike said the China-nexus adversary VAPOR PANDA used the AI-driven ARTEX intrusion framework, run primarily on the Chinese-developed DeepSeek large language model and a second commercial model, to target more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries over an 11-day window beginning October 17, 2026. CrowdStrike Intelligence confirmed post-exploitation activity at nine organizations in […]

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&Truth, a public benefit corporation developing technology to mathematically prove that software is safe, emerged from stealth on October 29, 2026, disclosing $70 million in seed funding and a plan to build what it calls a universal verification machine for code. In its launch announcement, the company said it was founded in early 2026 and […]

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Cursor on October 29, 2026 disclosed a security incident involving a maliciously modified version of the Anthropic.claude-code extension in its VS Code extension Marketplace. The company said the package was not developed by Anthropic and that it ran code attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor. At most 5,000 users were affected. In a security […]

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The Wikimedia Foundation announced on October 30, 2026, that it has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for leave to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the consolidation of 12 lawsuits against OpenAI whose best-known member is The New York Times’ […]

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Preparatory work on the roof of Refresco’s Bridgwater facility, which is expected to accommodate more than 18,000 solar panels. Beverage manufacturer Refresco has begun installing 21.5MWp of solar photovoltaic capacity across four UK production facilities, including an 8.5MWp rooftop installation in Somerset that is expected to become the largest of its kind in the country. […]


Article Contents Expand menu Close Clean-tech exports Solar exports are the biggest enabler Global South dominates avoided emissions Clean-tech exports span the globe Overseas clean energy projects double over three years China’s exports enable market growth Electrification export implications About the data China’s exports in 2026 of clean-energy technologies, such as solar panels, batteries and […]

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ServiceNow on October 28, 2026 announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a partner ecosystem spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering, with Kong among founding members that also include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence […]

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Google is scaling ads in AI Mode to 10 additional countries and launching multiturn ads in the United States, which allow ads to appear in follow-up queries in AI Mode, the company announced on October 28, 2026. The expansion covers Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. In the […]

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Microsoft on October 28, 2026, announced results for its fiscal 2027 first quarter, ended September 30, 2026, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, and net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Azure revenue increased 48%. Operating income was $45.9 billion and increased 21%, or 22% in constant […]

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VitVio is bringing its Vetro surgical operating system to Hospital Español de Veracruz, extending its use of spatial AI from hospital deployments in the United States and Europe into Latin America. The partnership announced October 29 will install the platform across all of the Mexican hospital’s operating rooms. The companies describe the deployment as Mexico’s […]

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AGIBOT introduced Worken, a proposed framework for measuring how much productive work robots perform once deployed, at AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on October 29, 2026. The company also used the event to unveil its AHA3 integrated hardware platform, debut the GO-3 Preview embodied foundation model and the WITA-Omni interaction model, and formally launch […]

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Monitoring equipment at a Scottish Water wastewater treatment works. The utility retained first place in British Water’s annual survey of supplier relationships. Relationships between UK water companies and their suppliers are improving, according to British Water’s latest industry survey, although progress on innovation remains slow despite the investment demands of AMP8. The organisation’s 2026 Water […]

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Stacked polypropylene advertising boards, ready for processing or reuse (image credit: Corplex).. Printed advertising boards for buses are traditionally used two or three times, with limited scope for recycling into equivalent products. A new system from plastics manufacturer Corplex is said to reduce their carbon footprint by up to 80%, enabling the material to be […]

Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Surface mass balance Total mass balance Surface melt Snowfall Iceberg calving The impact of global weather Three decades of decline Greenland in the global sea level picture Greenland has now marked the 30th consecutive year where it lost more ice than it gained. This guest post is […]
