Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions set to dip in 2026 as Iran conflict hits oil use
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Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Total emissions edge up as land-use emissions rise Land-use emissions rise in 2026 Fossil emissions fall in most major economies Oil emissions fall as coal emissions slightly increase Land sink in 2025 is highest on record Clean energy is offsetting most emissions from rising energy demand Carbon […]
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MIT Secures Up to $52.9M From ARPA-H for Generative AI Herbicide Design
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MIT announced on November 10, 2026 that it will lead a project backed by up to $52.9 million from ARPA-H, the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to design safer herbicides with generative AI and develop biological systems that break down agricultural chemicals. Called Precision Learning for On-target Weed control (PLOW), the project belongs […]
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Shanghai Electric Uses AI in Gas Turbine Production and Maintenance
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Shanghai Electric announced on November 10, 2026 that industrial AI is supporting blade manufacturing, weld inspection and lifecycle maintenance in its heavy-duty gas turbine business, with its SIMPLE platform drawing on data from more than 60 turbine units and over 1 million cumulative operating hours. The announcement combines equipment-engineering expertise with production and operating data, […]
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Cloudsmith Puts AI Agent Skills Under Artifact Registry Controls
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Cloudsmith announced an AI Agent Skills registry on November 9, 2026, at KubeCon, extending its artifact-management platform to the instruction files and scripts used by AI coding agents. The release adds controls for skill sources, versions and access alongside existing software packages. Skills and Claude plugins now sit in Cloudsmith’s multi-format repositories, which the company […]
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Quantinuum Upgrades Reimei and Broadens RIKEN Quantum-AI Partnership
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Quantinuum and RIKEN announced an expanded partnership on November 10, 2026, after completing Reimei’s upgrade to the 56-qubit System Model H2. The plans include joint work toward a fault-tolerant “Made with Japan” quantum computer and a separate SoftBank agreement to explore bringing quantum-AI hybrid services to Japanese AI data centers. RIKEN marked the expansion with […]
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Otter.ai Adds 13 Languages and Previews Automatic Language Switching
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Otter.ai announced on November 10, 2026 a 27-language expansion of its meeting transcription service, with 13 additions available immediately and 14 more marked as coming soon. The company also previewed a multilingual mode designed to transcribe participants as they change supported languages within one meeting, without manual setting changes. The live additions are Mandarin Chinese […]
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Abandoning net zero could backfire on Labour, new research warns
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Electric bus in Manchester at night: Affordable public transport is among the measures identified by researchers as potentially strengthening public support for climate action. Weakening climate commitments to win back voters from Reform UK could cost Labour support elsewhere, according to new research.1 A study from the University of Manchester suggests that Labour risks worsening […]
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Comment: Greater visibility of waste is the key to prisons meeting recycling targets
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The Green Block says its Mobile Segregation Unit (MSU, pictured) could help prisons improve recycling rates by processing mixed waste on site, while reducing vehicle movements through security gates. Prisons will only close the gap on their recycling targets when they can see what is in their waste, where it comes from and where its […]
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Rail plant emissions trial wins environmental award
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Hydrogen-assisted engine cleaning being carried out on a Balfour Beatty railway tamper. (Image credit: Balfour Beatty). An initiative to reduce emissions from diesel-powered railway maintenance equipment has earned Balfour Beatty recognition in the 2026 International Green Apple Environment Awards. The infrastructure group was selected from more than 700 entries worldwide for its partnership with Engine […]
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Q&A: What is the Belém-Antalya mechanism for a ‘just transition’?
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close How has a ‘just transition’ featured in UN climate talks? Where did the ‘just transition mechanism’ come from? What role could the mechanism play in facilitating ‘just transitions’? What are the financial implications of the mechanism? What is likely to happen in Antalya? One of the key […]
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NXP Launches Modular Robotics Platform for Physical AI Development
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NXP Semiconductors said on November 9, 2026, that its new modular robotics platform for physical AI systems can deliver initial drone functionality within 30 minutes out of the box, using a unified package of processors, open-source software and reference designs. The company said pre-integrated software and validated subsystem interoperability can cut the months developers often […]
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NVIDIA Backs Point2 and Plans Three More Korean AI Startup Investments
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NVIDIA announced on November 9, 2026, an investment in Point2 and planned investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage, extending its Korean startup activity across AI data-center interconnects, open-weight language models, robotics and enterprise document software. The announcement accompanied the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT […]
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Ardian Raises €1B for Semiconductor Platform to Scale Chip Companies
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Ardian announced on November 9, 2026 that it had raised €1 billion for Ardian Semiconductor, one of the first private equity platforms dedicated exclusively to the semiconductor value chain. The total comprises close to €700 million of fund commitments alongside co-investments, meaning the headline figure is broader than commitments to the fund alone. Investors from […]
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Samsung Highlights Physical AI Potential with Hyundai Motor Group
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Samsung Electronics said it hosted Hyundai Motor Group executives on November 9, 2026, presenting the two groups as strategic partners operating as one team and pointing to potential physical AI synergies at an HMG Appreciation Day attended by 177 people. The event at Samsung Electronics’ Seocheon training center was themed One Harmony for the Future. […]
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Pierre Fabre Taps XtalPi’s AI and Robotics for Drug Discovery
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Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and XtalPi announced on November 9, 2026 an agreement to discover novel small-molecule clinical candidates across multiple research programs. XtalPi will contribute integrated AI capabilities and a robotics platform, while Pierre Fabre will select and advance compounds in oncology, potentially dermatology, and rare diseases. The partners are directing that work toward challenging […]
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Tomorrow’s Engineers Week challenges students to tackle food waste and extreme heat
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Yanmi Orebowale_is the presenter of the event’s Beat the heat design challenge Young people across the UK are being challenged to devise solutions to extreme heat, food waste and other real-world problems as part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, which runs from 9 to 13 November. Now in its 14th year, the annual campaign, organised by […]
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What Is Model Distillation? How Large AI Models Teach Smaller Ones
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Model distillation transfers behavior from a larger or more capable teacher into a smaller student model using teacher outputs, internal signals, or softened probability targets. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
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Anthropic’s Planned IPO Puts Public Trust and Data Centers in Focus
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CNBC reported on November 7, 2026 that Anthropic is likely targeting mid-November 2026 for a Nasdaq debut, as academics and IPO-market specialists assessed how a public listing could intensify scrutiny of the Claude developer amid voter resistance to AI data centers. CNBC characterized Anthropic as poised to become the first pure-play AI company to enter […]