Renewable AI

Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

  • The importance of building trust in real-time controls systems for sewer networks will be explored in a roundtable at World Water-Tech, hosted by Chengzi Chew, chief intrapreneur at Grundfos FutureLab, who shares his thoughts in a Q&A ahead of the event. The title of your roundtable at World Water-Tech is – Overcoming trust issues: what […]

  • A flower shop in Frome, Somerset in May 2024 (image credit: Alla Tsyganova / Shutterstock.com). (Words: The University of Surrey) There is a sustainable future for the British flower industry – but it has to start with recognition that the current model is fuelling the environmental crisis through carbon emissions and agrochemical pollution emitted through […]

  • Tower Bridge: One of the locations passed by the tunnel on its 25-km path between Acton Storm Tanks (West London) and Stratford. Tideway, the firm responsible for delivering London’s “super sewer”, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, announced its successful activation, on 14 February. After ten years of construction the last of 21 connections has been made […]

  • This marks the first in a series by Unite.AI exploring the growing connections between international government bodies and AI surveillance. Across the globe, state-driven surveillance programs are rapidly evolving, often underpinned by partnerships with powerful technology exporters such as China, Israel, and Russia. Uganda serves as a compelling case study, revealing how AI surveillance has […]

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) needs data and a lot of it. Gathering the necessary information is not always a challenge in today’s environment, with many public datasets available and so much data generated every day. Securing it, however, is another matter. The vast size of AI training datasets and the impact of the AI models invite […]

  • Have you ever felt like managing your social media is a full-time job? After all, the average person spends nearly 2 hours and 21 minutes per day on social media. But for businesses and creators, it’s safe to assume that number increases when factoring in content creation, scheduling, engagement, and analytics. I recently came across […]

  • After testing the various models in Google’s new Gemini 2.0 family, something interesting becomes clear: Google is exploring the potential of specialized AI systems working in concert similar to OpenAI. Google has structured their AI offerings around practical use cases – from rapid response systems to deep reasoning engines. Each model serves a specific purpose, […]

  • Rick Caccia, CEO and Co-Founder of WitnessAI, has extensive experience in launching security and compliance products. He has held leadership roles in product and marketing at Palo Alto Networks, Google, and Symantec. Caccia previously led product marketing at ArcSight through its IPO and subsequent operations as a public company and served as the first Chief […]

  • It has been just a few weeks since President Donald J. Trump returned to the White House and, wow, what a whirlwind it has been. In the midst of the constitutional extreme event brought on by the administration, this blog post seeks to do one thing: review the emergency authorities invoked in Executive Order 14156, […]

  • Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week 1.5C looms 1.5C EXAMINED: The run of record heat last year suggests the world is close to exceeding the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, according to two new studies covered […]

  • Borger has launched a new cutting-basket macerator that helps protect wastewater/biogas pumps and downstream equipment by consistently mashing solids. Designed with pivoted cutting blades that adjust automatically, the OrbitGrinder operates at an even cutting speed, with its cutting basket’s blades arranged in a special star shape to maximise shredding. Not only is flow through the […]

  • Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. Tropical cyclones tearing down banana plants and coconut trees. Carbon Brief has analysed global media coverage over the past two years to identify reporting on extreme weather events damaging crops. Various impacts were […]

  • Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the structure of a protein determines what it can do. More recently, researchers are coming to appreciate that a protein’s localization is also critical […]

  • The researchers Feng Gao and Xun Xiao of Linköping University (image credit: Thor Balkhed). In a study published in Nature, researchers have developed a method that they say is able to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled solar cell is said to have the same efficiency as […]

  • A new study from researchers at LMU Munich, the Munich Center for Machine Learning, and Adobe Research has exposed a weakness in AI language models: they struggle to understand long documents in ways that might surprise you. The research team’s findings show that even the most advanced AI models have trouble connecting information when they […]

  • Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive, is an experienced product manager with a background in leading product development and software implementations for Fortune 500 enterprises. During his time in product management, he observed inefficiencies in the Request for Proposal (RFP) process—formal documents organizations use to solicit bids from vendors, often requiring extensive, detailed responses. […]

  • In this valentine to the electric grid, Electrify This! host Sara Baldwin speaks with grid expert, Ric O’Connell of GridLab, about a topic front of mind for more people, utilities, and policymakers around the world: grid reliability. Demand for electricity is on the rise after decades of relatively flat load growth as more end-uses seek […]

  • Managed realignment at Steart Marshes in Somerset created 250 hectares of saltmarsh, a landscape feature with carbon storage capabilities that compare favourably with woodland. Nature can play a major role in improving the nation’s resilience to flooding and coastal erosion, updated research from the Environment Agency appears to underline. The EA has published a new […]