CB Live: Carbon Brief’s team at COP17 on the nature talks’ key outcomes
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Print article Share Following this year’s UN COP17 biodiversity conference, Carbon Brief’s journalists hosted a livestream to explain what happened at the summit. Carbon Brief’s Orla Dwyer and Aruna Chandrasekhar have been on the ground in Yerevan, Armenia, over the past two weeks, covering the negotiations. They were joined on the livestream by associate editors […]
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Q&A: What is in the global ‘roadmap’ for transitioning away from fossil fuels?
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Why has Brazil produced a fossil-fuel ‘roadmap’? What does the fossil-fuel roadmap say? How will the fossil-fuel roadmap be discussed at COP31? Transitioning away from fossil fuels is “urgent, inevitable and, yet, possible”, according to a first-of-its-kind global “roadmap” produced by Brazil. The host of last year’s […]
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Q&A: What is the Brazil-led ‘deforestation roadmap’?
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close What is a deforestation ‘roadmap’? What does the roadmap say about reducing deforestation? Why did some countries not sign onto the roadmap at COP30? What are the barriers to implementing a deforestation roadmap? On 3 November, the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 climate talks released its long-awaited […]
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Amodei Wins Dismissal of Direct Copyright Claim with Leave to Amend
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Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on November 4, 2026 dismissed the direct copyright infringement claim against Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, with leave to amend, according to the court’s November 4, 2026 minute entry. The minute entry left Anthropic’s separate partial motion unresolved. Lee ordered the […]
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Cat Wu to Lead Product Management for OpenAI’s Core Products
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Cat Wu announced on November 5, 2026 that she is joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products. Wu said she respected OpenAI for showing that scaling works, bringing AI to more than a billion people and treating great products as central to its mission. She named Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s product-management team and employees […]
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OpenAI’s Enterprise Sales Take Majority as Brockman Sees IPO Readiness
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Reuters reported on November 5, 2026 that OpenAI President Greg Brockman said enterprise sales now generate the majority of the company’s revenue. Speaking on November 4, 2026, in Napa, California, Brockman answered “I think so” when asked whether OpenAI would be ready for an initial public offering in 2027. The official conference program identifies Brockman […]
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Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory
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In an emergency, a human might someday ask a robotic assistant to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator located down the hall. But if the robot has incorrectly labeled the defibrillator as a fire extinguisher in its stored memory, it may not know where to find the life-saving device. This robotic assistant could benefit from a new […]
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AutoStore Moves Into Pallet Robotics With Agreement to Buy Logiqs
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AutoStore announced on November 5, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire Logiqs BV, a Netherlands-based developer of roaming pallet automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), for up to €30 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The agreement would add pallet-handling automation to […]
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Methane recovery pilot demonstrates energy gains at Anglian Water
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A methane recovery technology recently trialled at an Anglian Water wastewater treatment site has demonstrated the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while recovering additional biogas from sewage sludge – specifically, the portion that conventional treatment systems overlook. UK firm Bluemethane tested its Chloe technology at the utility’s Cotton Valley facility, where it was […]
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State of the climate: 2026 likely to tie with 2024 as the warmest year on record
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close A record August and the second-warmest year to date A record-setting El Niño event Record heat across much of the world Good odds of being world’s warmest year Datasets are split on whether 2026 is headed for a record 2027 very likely to be the warmest year […]
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UK climate minister Katie White: COP31 must respond to ‘really scary’ science
Print article Share The upcoming COP31 climate talks in Antalya, Turkey need to respond to the latest science on global warming, which is “really scary”, says UK climate minister Katie White. In an interview with Carbon Brief setting out the UK’s priorities for the summit, White also responds to suggestions that the government is walking […]
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Mount Sinai Chooses Sectra’s AI-Assisted Radiology Reporting
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Sectra announced on November 4, 2026, a seven-year agreement to provide its AI-assisted Sectra Reporting module in Sectra One Cloud across all Mount Sinai Health System radiology services, covering more than 1.2 million exams annually. Go-live at the New York health system is planned for spring 2027. Sectra described Mount Sinai as the first US […]
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Cerillion 26.2 Extends AI From Customer Care to Churn Prediction
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Cerillion announced the general availability of Cerillion 26.2 on November 4, 2026, adding AI capabilities to its pre-integrated BSS/OSS Suite for communications service providers. The release spans customer care, service configuration, competitor-aware package design and churn prediction. The additions reach across work usually divided among support, product and retention teams. They sit inside the pre-integrated […]
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Data Center Policy Fears Hit AI Stocks After Hinojosa’s Texas Win
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CNBC reported on November 4, 2026, that AI-linked stocks and Nasdaq-100 futures fell in overnight trading after Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s projected victory in the Texas governor’s race intensified investor concern that state restrictions could delay data-center projects. Nasdaq-100 futures were down 0.8% as election results arrived, more than double the decline in Dow Jones Industrial […]
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Ohio Voters Back Local Data Center Limits in Unofficial Results
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Voters in Trenton, Pataskala, Granville, Sunbury, Grove City and Ashville backed local data-center restrictions in Ohio’s November 3, 2026 general election, according to unofficial county results that included Delaware County’s election-night summary. Trenton’s Issue 17 drew 79.68% support. Butler County’s unofficial results gave Trenton 3,541 yes votes to 903 no votes, with all eight precincts […]
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KIST’s Lee Jong-Won Wins Korea Science Award for KAPEX Humanoid
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South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea named Lee Jong-won of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology on November 4, 2026 as the November Korea Science and Technology Award recipient for developing KAPEX, an AI humanoid built with domestic core technologies. The monthly honor recognizes one researcher […]
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Wastewater’s hidden emissions
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Direct measurement of GHGs presents opportunities to optimise plant processes. As water utilities pursue net zero, there is clearly an appetite for acquiring a better grasp of the quantities of greenhouse gases being released by treatment processes and sewer networks. Envirotec reviews monitoring guidance and other relevant developments on display at the recent IWA World […]
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3M agrees $7.35bn settlement over PFAS personal injury claims
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Firefighting foam being cleared from a surface. Historical use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams has prompted extensive litigation over alleged harm to human health and contamination of the environment. US industrial conglomerate 3M has agreed to pay $7.35 billion to settle personal injury claims linked to exposure to PFAS chemicals in firefighting foams, potentially resolving claims […]