David Driggers, CTO of Cirrascale – Interview Series

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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David Driggers is the Chief Technology Officer at Cirrascale Cloud Services, a leading provider of deep learning infrastructure solutions. Guided by values of integrity, agility, and customer focus, Cirrascale delivers innovative, cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. Partnering with AI ecosystem leaders like Red Hat and WekaIO, Cirrascale ensures seamless access to advanced tools, empowering customers to […]

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I’ve seen many evolutions of threats in my years as a cybersecurity CEO, but nothing compares to the danger emerging right now. Organizations are facing a new breed of adversary—Digital Warlords—AI-powered adversaries who have fundamentally redesigned the identity vulnerability in enterprises. These aren’t your traditional bad actors; they’re sophisticated operators wielding AI to expand their […]

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The UK’s ambitious target to increase electric vehicle (EV) sales to 80% of all new car purchases by 2030 could result in them accounting for up to 5% of total power demand, according to energy analysts at Montel, though there are concerns whether capacity buildout will be adequate. As the UK government works towards a […]

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Predicting future states is a critical mission in computer vision research – not least in robotics, where real-world situations must be considered. Machine learning systems entrusted with mission-critical tasks therefore need adequate understanding of the physical world. However, in some cases, an apparently impressive knowledge of temporal reality could be deceptive: a new paper from […]

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As an SEO specialist, I’m constantly looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve. After all, SEO isn’t just about optimizing for what’s popular right now, but anticipating what’s coming next. It’s about spotting the trends before they become mainstream, so you can create content that resonates when it matters most. That’s why staying […]

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Kernel methods are a powerful class of machine learning algorithm that allow us to perform complex, non-linear transformations of data without explicitly computing the transformed feature space.

A record surge of clean energy kept China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions below the previous year’s levels in the last 10 months of 2024. However, the new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures and commercial data, shows the tail end of China’s rebound from zero-Covid in January and February, combined with abnormally high […]

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Text-based adventure games have a timeless appeal.

As expected, a newly sworn-in President Donald Trump spent the afternoon following his inauguration signing executive orders (EOs), many of them intended to unwind climate and environmental initiatives enacted by former President Joe Biden. In the EOs, President Trump orders federal agencies and personnel to take certain actions – or to report back on actions […]

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Anthropic’s innovative Model Context Protocol (MCP) aims to tackle fragmented data and boost the efficiency of AI-powered solutions. Could it become the standard for context-aware AI integration? One of the most pressing challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation today is large language models’ (LLMs) isolation from real-time data. To tackle the issue, San Francisco-based AI […]

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Claudionor Coelho is the Chief AI Officer at Zscaler, responsible for leading his team to find new ways to protect data, devices, and users through state-of-the-art applied Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning and Generative AI techniques. Prior to joining Zscaler, he served as Chief AI Officer and Senior Vice President of engineering at Advantest. Previously, […]

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Dr Robert Bornhofen is director of innovation at DC Water, organizer of WaterPitch! Ahead of a three-day water startup matching event, organized by WaterCitizen.Org and hosted by DC Water on 19 February, Dr Robert Bornhofen, director of innovation at DC Water, shares his views on the challenges faced by the US utility and how they […]

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Image credit: PML. A new study reveals – seemingly for the first time – that particle type affects colonization, enrichment and spread of both antimicrobial-resistant and pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria. Microplastics (plastic particles under 5mm) are a widespread environmental pollutant, with more than 120 trillion estimated to have accumulated in the global ocean. Upon entering the environment, […]

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. However, it has also been used to frustrate efforts to accelerate the renewable energy transition by delaying the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure (see here). Ireland has been a particular victim of this […]

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A new administrator for the UK’s four-nation Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme was announced on 21 January, and it will be called “PackUK”. The announcement marks another milestone in the rollout of the initiative, which aims to help businesses reduce packaging usage and promote more sustainable alternatives. PackUK will shift the cost of […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Trump leaves Paris pact US EXIT: Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, the New York Times reported. By exiting, the world’s biggest historic […]

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A 3d model of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, which is currently under construction in Somerset (image credit: gov.uk) A statement issued by Mark Lloyd, Chief Executive of the Rivers Trust on 24 January. It is very disappointing that the Prime Minister was so disparaging and dismissive about the need for acoustic fish […]

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Businesses and developers often face a steep learning curve when installing clean energy technologies, such as solar installations and EV chargers. To get a fair deal, they need to navigate a complex bidding process that involves requesting proposals, evaluating bids, and ultimately contracting with a provider. Now the startup Station A, founded by a pair […]