AI Costs Are Accelerating — Here’s How to Keep Them Under Control

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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Cloud usage continues to soar, as do its associated costs — particularly, of late, those driven by AI. Gartner analysts predict worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will swell to $723.4 billion in 2025, up from just under $600 billion in 2024. And 70% of executives surveyed in an IBM report cited generative AI as […]

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John Beeler, Ph.D., SVP of Business Development at BPGbio, brings over two decades of experience in biotechnology and business development, with extensive expertise in novel therapeutics. Before joining BPGbio, he most recently served as Business Development Search & Evaluation Lead at Bristol-Myers Squibb where he was pivotal in sourcing and evaluating licensing opportunities and strategic partnerships. BPGbio […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Trump ‘SOS’ ‘CHAOS’ GRIPS: More than 1,900 scientists from US national academies of sciences, engineering and medicine wrote an “SOS letter” warning of the risks to science imposed by the current administration’s grant cuts and mass layoffs, […]

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An image of the site in Northampton in February 2020 (credit: the Environment Agency). The Environment Agency has secured a Proceeds of Crime judgment for £313,382.45 against two men from Northampton who ran an illegal waste tyre site. At Northampton Crown Court on Friday 28 March, a confiscation hearing concluded against Nimesh Patel, age 52, […]

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Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my system on load. For this reason, I won’t link to it directly. Readers can find the URL in the paper’s abstract or PDF if they choose. One of the primary objectives in current video synthesis research […]

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Due to the inherent ambiguity in medical images like X-rays, radiologists often use words like “may” or “likely” when describing the presence of a certain pathology, such as pneumonia. But do the words radiologists use to express their confidence level accurately reflect how often a particular pathology occurs in patients? A new study shows that […]

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Renewable power sources have seen unprecedented levels of investment in recent years. But with political uncertainty clouding the future of subsidies for green energy, these technologies must begin to compete with fossil fuels on equal footing, said participants at the 2025 MIT Energy Conference. “What these technologies need less is training wheels, and more of […]

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An extra 146,000 hectares of peatland will be protected by the proposals, says the government. The UK government introduced a plan to ban the burning of vegetation on upland areas of peatland on 31 March, ostensibly in a bid to ensure nature-rich peatland habitats are better protected, and to improve air quality for people living […]

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Better health protection measures for rivers is among the topics for which proposals are being sought. Expressions of interest (EOI) are being sought by UKWIR for expert partners to develop the evidence base, insight, knowledge and recommendations to respond to a broad spectrum of opportunities and challenges across the water cycle. UKWIR, a not-for-profit organisation, […]

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Unframe, a next-generation enterprise AI platform, has officially emerged from stealth with a $50 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside TLV Partners, Craft Ventures, Third Point Ventures, SentinelOne Ventures, and Cerca Partners. The funding marks a significant milestone for Unframe as it accelerates global expansion, fuels R&D, and scales delivery of its […]

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Shay Levi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unframe, a company redefining enterprise AI with scalable, secure solutions. Previously, he co-founded Noname Security and led the company to its $500M acquisition by Akamai in just four years. A proven innovator in cybersecurity and technology, he specializes in building transformative solutions. Unframe is an all-in-one enterprise […]

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 Steel, aluminium and cement on notice ETS EXPANSION: China will expand its emissions trading system (ETS) to include the steel, cement and aluminium industries, which will […]

Solar for All Implementation in 2025 Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to freeze the $7 billion Solar for All (SfA) program created via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). SfA represents a massive investment in residential solar energy across the country. SfA […]

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The Corry Review recommends a number of changes in the way environmental regulation operates in the short term, and declares itself a hiking of aspirations for both economic growth and the natural world. It’s a juggling act that successive governments have attempted to pull off. Titled Delivering Economic Growth and Nature Recovery: An Independent Review […]

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A geothermal power plant in Salton Sea, California. April is National Geothermal Month, with trade associations supporting the seemingly vastly under-utilised1 renewable energy form undertaking a worldwide effort to highlight its transformative potential and promote unified messaging. While geothermal energy has provided a bonanza in parts of the world where such resources are highly accessible […]

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More than 1,700 farms on the outskirts of English towns and cities have disappeared since 2010, according to a groundbreaking report published by CPRE, the countryside charity. The report reveals that productive agricultural land surrounding urban areas – land that could feed local communities and provide environmental benefits – is rapidly being lost from farming. […]

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Large language models (LLMs) like Claude have changed the way we use technology. They power tools like chatbots, help write essays and even create poetry. But despite their amazing abilities, these models are still a mystery in many ways. People often call them a “black box” because we can see what they say but not […]

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In February 2024, Reddit struck a $60 million deal with Google to let the search giant use data on the platform to train its artificial intelligence models. Notably absent from the discussions were Reddit users, whose data were being sold. The deal reflected the reality of the modern internet: Big tech companies own virtually all […]