Beyond Drones and AI: Rethinking the Future of Humanitarian Demining

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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I’ve been working with drones since 2014, but the outbreak of war in Ukraine marked a turning point in my career. Since 2022, my focus has shifted to exploring how drones can be used to automate humanitarian demining – what capabilities they need, and how technology can make these efforts safer and more efficient. As […]

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Coding in 2025 isn’t about toiling over fragments or spending long hours on debugging. It’s a whole ’nother vibe. AI-generated code stands to be the majority of code in future products and it has become an essential toolkit for the modern developer. Known as “vibe coding”, the use of code generated by tools like Github […]

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Hakob Astabatsyan, Co‑Founder and CEO of Synthflow, is leading the development of cutting-edge voice AI technology that helps businesses automate customer calls with human-like responsiveness. Based in Berlin, Hakob co-founded Synthflow in 2023 with the goal of making advanced conversational AI accessible to companies of all sizes. Under his leadership, Synthflow has rapidly scaled across […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Trump’s latest climate rollback RULES REPEALED: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun dismantling Biden-era regulations limiting pollution from power plants, including carbon dioxide emissions, reported the Financial Times. Announcing the repeal, climate-sceptic EPA administrator Lee […]

The UK’s chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the green light this week to the Sizewell C new nuclear plant in Suffolk, along with funding for “small modular reactors” (SMRs) and nuclear fusion. In her spending review of government funding across the rest of this parliament, Reeves pledged £14.2bn for Sizewell C, £2.5bn for Rolls-Royce SMRs and […]

Recent years have seen a rapid succession of climate-related records broken. To name just a few, the world has witnessed record warmth in the Atlantic, unprecedented glacier melt, all-time low Antarctic sea ice extent, the Amazon’s worst drought since observations began and UK temperatures soaring past 40C for the first time. In a review article, […]

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Earth’s limb and dust storms in the Sahara are pictured as the International Space Station orbited nearly 252 miles above the African country of Mali (image credit: NASA Johnson, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license). Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Saraha and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution. Contrary […]

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Medal winners Andrew Dyne of Haskoning, Alan Ford of EPS, Jonny Tyler of Scottish Water, Stephen Fraser of ESD and Colin Maybury of Scottish Water. A wastewater treatment works in West Lothian has won a prestigious sustainability award from The Royal Academy of Engineering. Owned and operated by Scottish Water, the £35m waste water treatment […]

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Large language models are steadily replacing traditional search, not just by answering queries more directly, but by transforming the interface itself into a walled garden – an increasingly sought-after space that seems set to replace traditional search engines, and for which an increasingly frantic land-grab is now under way. Can publishers migrate their content discoverability […]

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Aerial view of the Pan-Atlantic University campus in Lagos, Nigeria. A pilot project at Pan-Atlantic University (PAU) in Lagos, Nigeria, aims to replace polluting diesel generators with next-generation thermal energy storage powered by solar. Launched by UK-based clean tech developer Aed Energy, the initiative is part of the ZE-Gen international innovation programme, supported by Innovate […]

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Denas Grybauskas is the Chief Governance and Strategy Officer at Oxylabs, a global leader in web intelligence collection and premium proxy solutions. Founded in 2015, Oxylabs provides one of the largest ethically sourced proxy networks in the world—spanning over 177 million IPs across 195 countries—along with advanced tools like Web Unblocker, Web Scraper API, and […]

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Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress, with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their advanced counterparts, Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), redefining how machines process and generate human-like text. These models can write essays, answer questions, and even solve mathematical problems. However, despite their impressive abilities, these models display curious behavior: they often overcomplicate simple problems while […]

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In a strategic push to cement its leadership in enterprise-ready artificial intelligence, Iterate.ai has raised $6.4 million in funding. The round is led by Auxier Asset Management and includes prominent investors Peter Cobb, Mike Edwards, and Dave Zentmyer—all former board members of eBags, the $1.65B online travel retailer co-founded by Iterate CEO Jon Nordmark. This high-profile […]

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The prevailing fear around artificial intelligence (AI) is that it will render human workers obsolete, replacing jobs, eroding trust, and stripping away the human element of work. It’s an anxiety rooted in real data: according to the World Economic Forum, 40% of employers expect to reduce headcount due to AI automation, and Goldman Sachs estimates […]

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become indispensable Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, powering applications from chatbots and content creation to coding assistance. Despite their impressive capabilities, a common challenge users face is that these models sometimes skip parts of the instructions they receive, especially when those instructions are lengthy or involve multiple steps. This skipping […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Critical mineral ‘deal’ TRANSITION TURMOIL: US president Donald Trump said China and the US reached a “deal” after talks were held in London, reported the BBC […]

At the start of 2024, China introduced a new system of “capacity payments” designed to help coal-fired power stations shift into a supporting role, alongside low-carbon sources. In theory, the payments should make it financially viable for coal plants to operate less frequently, switching off unless there is insufficient output from renewables and nuclear. However, […]

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A MOPO solar energy hub. A start-up company in Africa that lets customers rent portable, solar-charged batteries has received a strategic investment from Octopus Energy Group. The global clean energy firm announced the strategic investment in MOPO – “a pioneering energy tech company delivering clean, reliable energy to underserved communities in Sub-Saharan Africa” – on […]