Guest post: Greenland ice sheet shrinks for 30th year in a row
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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 […]
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Q&A: Why are UK energy bills so high – and how could they be lowered?
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Analysis: How the UK spent more than £11.6bn on climate aid since 2021
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close The UK has supported around 500 climate projects since 2021 UK climate aid has reached record levels – but is set to drop Afghanistan received more bilateral climate aid than any other country Development banks and private-sector funders are among the biggest beneficiaries Methodology The UK has […]
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Revealed: UK relied on £2bn of ‘questionable accounting’ to hit its climate-aid goal
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close ‘Moving the goalposts’ ‘£1bn shortfall’ Accounting changes Methodology The UK has beaten its target to provide £11.6bn of climate aid to developing countries by 2026 – but only through “questionable accounting”. As part of its obligations under the Paris Agreement, the UK pledged to give at least […]
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At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network
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Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and venture capital. And this year, the mix included a strong, cross-campus presence from MIT. The MIT […]
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Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights
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Like many leaders today, Prabha Jha has been feeling the significant impact artificial intelligence is having on business operations. While the rapid evolution of the technology can bring fear, uncertainty, and confusion, Jha chose a different response: excitement. She began asking herself, “How do I become part of this once-in-a-lifetime thing?” Jha holds a bachelor’s […]
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Making machines that can listen
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The crack of a bat accompanied by a roar from the crowd can capture a baseball fan’s attention, even if they miss seeing the home run. Humans may be visual creatures, but we also perceive the world around us by listening to it. To improve artificial perception, MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis SM ’97, PhD ’01 […]
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Why lowest purchase price could be costing UK industry millions
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Wayne Rose is Chief Executive of the British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA). By Wayne Rose of the British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) When it comes to purchasing industrial equipment, few principles appear more straightforward than getting the best price. Yet when applied to pumping systems, an excessive focus on initial purchase cost can ultimately prove […]
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CO₂ purification technology supports landmark EfW carbon capture project
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Veolia’s Ellesmere Port Facility (image credit: Veolia). Environmental services group Veolia has secured a contract to supply carbon dioxide purification and dehydration equipment for the UK’s first full-scale carbon capture installation at an energy-from-waste facility. The company will design and supply two modular units for Encyclis’ Protos facility near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, under a contract […]
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Second-life batteries power rapid EV charging
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Allye Energy’s battery-buffered EV charging units are designed to provide rapid charging at fleet depots without requiring major grid connection upgrades. A new ultra-rapid electric vehicle charger uses repurposed EV batteries to overcome grid capacity constraints, potentially allowing fleet operators to install high-power charging infrastructure without costly electricity network upgrades. Developed by UK clean-tech company […]
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Scotland’s burning dilemma: Landfill falls as recycling stalls
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More than half the material placed in Scotland’s general household waste bins could potentially be recycled, according to research. Scotland has reduced the amount of household waste sent to landfill by more than 84% since 2011, but recycling rates have shown little improvement, according to official statistics published on 27 October by the Scottish Environment […]
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symplr Launches AI Time and Scheduling to Predict Healthcare Staffing Needs
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A hospital staffing gap often becomes most expensive when there is little time left to solve it. Managers scramble for coverage, nurses field last-minute requests, and overtime or premium labor fills the remaining holes. symplr is trying to move those decisions earlier with the launch of symplr Time and Scheduling, an integrated workforce management solution […]
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IBM Brings Governed Identity and Credential Controls to AI Agents
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IBM on October 27, 2026, announced new identity, credential, discovery, containment and evaluation capabilities for enterprise AI agents at TechXchange 2026 in Atlanta, including the general availability of IBM Agent Identity and HashiCorp Vault 2.2. The company said the capabilities are built for developers, IT and security teams running agents across business systems with defined […]
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Meta Deepens NVIDIA Partnership on Muse AI Models and Infrastructure
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NVIDIA and Meta will expand their collaboration on Meta’s Muse family of AI models and broaden planned deployments of NVIDIA computing and networking infrastructure at Meta, the companies said in an NVIDIA Newsroom release dated October 26, 2026. NVIDIA will also invest $3 billion in Meta’s equity offering. The companies said they will partner to […]
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CoreWeave Activates Denmark AI Capacity and Extends Global Network Backbone
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CoreWeave announced on October 27, 2026 an expansion of its global AI cloud platform, bringing new computing capacity online in Denmark and extending its Global AI Network backbone into the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In a news release issued from London, the company said it has brought the majority of its planned 22.5 megawatts […]
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Bitdefender Launches GravityZone Exposure Management to Map Attack Paths and Reduce Risk
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An exposed service, an unpatched workstation and an account with excessive privileges can look like separate problems in a security queue. For an attacker, they can form a route into the same critical system. Bitdefender is bringing those connections into focus with GravityZone Exposure Management, a new offering announced October 27 that combines internal and […]
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AI21 Labs Releases LIFT-Bench to Curb Reward Hacking in RL Training
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AI21 Labs released LIFT-Bench on October 25, 2026, an instruction-following benchmark in which every constraint is scoped to one section of a document and the task content itself is scored, alongside LIFT-Train, a 34,258-task training counterpart, and the open pipeline that generated both. A companion paper, “LIFT: Scoped Constraints for Evaluating and Training Instruction Following” […]
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What Is Data Poisoning? How Attackers Corrupt AI Models and Datasets
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Data poisoning manipulates training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or retrieval data so an AI system learns corrupted behavior or produces attacker-chosen outcomes. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.