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This is the second of three consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Yesterday’s post examined the Paris Judicial Court’s June 2026 ruling in Notre Affaire à Tous et al. v. TotalEnergies SE. On August 18, 2026, New Zealand’s Parliament enacted the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Act 2026 (the Liability Act), passing 67 votes to […]
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Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi – Interview Series

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Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi, is a technology executive with more than three decades of experience in software engineering, quality assurance, and enterprise data management. He co-founded Datadobi in 2009 after spending eight years at EMC as Senior Manager of Quality Assurance, preceded by leadership roles at Mediagenix and Wave Research. Throughout his […]
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Canada Is Luring AI and Science Talent as Trump Upends U.S. Research

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For decades, the United States benefited from one of the most powerful competitive advantages in science: many of the world’s best researchers wanted to work there. That advantage is not disappearing overnight. The U.S. still has unmatched concentrations of research universities, federal laboratories, private capital and technology companies. But the flow of talent is becoming […]
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Looking beyond natural sequences

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A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Many methods for designing novel proteins, including examples that could bind to a disease-causing molecule in our cells, involve a two-step process: The structure comes […]
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Fyxer Review: I Let AI Take Over My Entire Email Inbox

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Every morning, I open my inbox and feel behind before I’ve even had my coffee. Between emails and messages I keep meaning to answer, my inbox can easily feel like a second job I never applied for. Before long, unread emails can pile up into the thousands. I’ve tried lots of tools that promise to […]
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Anthropic Opens 10,000 Free and Discounted Claude Seats for Scientists

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Anthropic on Thursday, August 27, 2026, opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude Team subscription seats for scientists, announcing an expansion of its researcher-focused programs that also widens its AI for Science credit program beyond the biological sciences. Under the new Claude Team plan for scientists, standard seats are free and premium seats with five times […]
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Storage for the long haul: £28 million innovation competition launches

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Grid-scale storage will have to accommodate growing levels of variable renewable generation. A £28 million UK programme has been launched to develop energy storage technologies capable of supplying electricity for more than 100 hours, with advanced batteries and underground hydrogen storage among the technologies being primed for a role. The Ultra-Long Duration Energy Storage (Ultra-LDES) […]
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Recognizing Scope 3, Reserving the Remedy: The Paris Court’s TotalEnergies Judgment
This is the first of two consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Tomorrow’s post examines the New Zealand government’s decision to legislate away corporate climate tort before trial — a case study in what happens when governments answer the accountability question before courts can reach it. On June 25, 2026, the Paris Judicial Court issued […]
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Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year

Print article Share More than 40% of children under the age of 10 globally are already experiencing at least 20 additional “heat-stress days” due to climate change. This is according to a new attribution study, published in Science Advances, which combines climate models with demographic data to assess the age groups and regions that are […]
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Gemini Live Gains Agentic Spark Tasks, Daily Brief and Voice Inbox Control

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Google is rolling out a productivity upgrade to Gemini Live that moves its voice assistant beyond conversation into executing multi-step tasks across a user’s Google apps, the company announced on August 26, 2026. The update, detailed in a post on The Keyword, adds four capabilities: Spark integration for agentic background tasks, a spoken Daily Brief, […]
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Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs – Interview Series

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Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs, is a repeat entrepreneur and technology executive with a background spanning financial infrastructure, investing, and digital platforms. Before founding ARCOS Labs, he spent eight years as Founder and CEO of Percent, where he built a technology platform designed to modernize private credit markets, and now serves as […]
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Greenberg Traurig Rolls Out Agentic CoCounsel Legal Across Global Offices

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Greenberg Traurig has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic AI for legal professionals, giving lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to a system that plans, researches, and drafts through the stages of a legal matter, the firm announced on August 26, 2026. The rollout caps a four-year collaboration in which […]
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Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI

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Deep Cogito has raised a $43 million Series A as the San Francisco AI lab looks to scale an increasingly important part of the artificial intelligence stack: what happens after a foundation model has already been pre-trained. The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park […]
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NVIDIA Posts $96.2B Quarter as Data Center Revenue Hits $89B

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NVIDIA reported revenue of $96.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, ended July 26, 2026, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year earlier, according to the company’s earnings release published August 26, 2026. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins both came in at 75.0%, and GAAP diluted earnings per […]
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The Weather Radar That Can See What Bigger Systems Miss
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Weather radar is often judged by how far it can see, but greater distance isn’t always the most important advantage. Sometimes the bigger need is seeing what’s happening within a smaller area in greater detail. Localized precipitation and storm features can change quickly, making closer observation particularly useful when conditions develop over a specific community […]
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Environment Agency to deploy AI to target waste crime and non-compliance

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EA officers inspect containerised waste at a UK port. The Environment Agency is increasing its use of AI and machine learning to identify waste-sector compliance risks and target regulatory activity towards operators and sites considered most likely to cause environmental harm. In this way, the regulator plans to strengthen compliance analytics, detect waste-related risks and […]
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Capturing the Future of Climate Change Mitigation: IEAGHG CCS Summer School 2026

Last month, I attended the International Carbon Capture and Storage Summer School, hosted by the International Energy Agency’s Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG) and INNO-CCUS just outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. The timing was disconcerting: I arrived on Sunday, June 28th, 2026, the day after a heatwave in Europe set all-time highs for the hottest temperatures […]
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Sabin Center Releases Summary Report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School have published the summary report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law, held at Columbia University on June 10–11, 2026. This event brought together physical scientists, legal scholars, public health researchers, economists, and policy experts to discuss key developments in climate change […]
