Seth Forsgren, Co-Founder and CEO of Riffusion – Interview Series
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Seth Forsgren, Co-Founder and CEO of Riffusion, leads the development of an AI-powered music generation tool that creates audio tracks from text prompts. Riffusion allows users to experiment with different musical styles and sounds in real-time, making music creation more accessible. Designed for both creativity and ease of use, the platform enables anyone to explore […]
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Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
Freshwater, essential for ecosystems and human well-being, is becoming increasingly scarce. Population growth, urbanisation and socioeconomic development are all driving greater demand for the world’s finite water resources. At the same time, climate change is altering precipitation patterns and affecting water availability. Currently, approximately four billion people experience water scarcity for at least one month […]
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Groundbreaking tech gives EV users the full picture on battery health
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UK startup Generational has unveiled “a strategy to supercharge car-dealers’ and consumers’ confidence in used EVs”. The solution seemingly resides with a novel battery-health assessment technology, which the group says is intuitive and state-of-the-art. The proprietary battery assessment tool is said to provide simple, seamless battery-health checks for pre-owned EVs – allowing dealers to provide […]
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Hydrogen adoption in European public transport faces grid and storage challenges
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A striking 93% of European public transport decisionmakers have expressed concerns about the capacity of their grid connection to fuel their current and future battery electric or hydrogen-powered fleets, in a new survey. The research, commissioned by specialist engineering company IMI, surveyed 300 senior public transport professionals across the UK, Germany and Italy about the […]
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Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab: The Next Big AI Challenger
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One of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence, Mira Murati, has officially launched her next ambitious venture: Thinking Machines Lab. With a handpicked team of elite AI researchers and engineers—including key figures from OpenAI, Character.ai, and Google DeepMind—Murati is positioning her new company as the next major player in the AI revolution, alongside OpenAI, and […]
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MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease
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Biology is never simple. As researchers make strides in reading and editing genes to treat disease, for instance, a growing body of evidence suggests that the proteins and metabolites surrounding those genes can’t be ignored. The MIT spinout ReviveMed has created a platform for measuring metabolites — products of metabolism like lipids, cholesterol, sugar, and […]
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Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
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While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of data. For instance, LLMs can understand many languages, generate computer code, solve math problems, or answer questions about images and audio. MIT researchers probed the inner workings of LLMs to better understand how they […]
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Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
Clean-energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s economic growth in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan ($1.9tn). Clean-energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and have overtaken real-estate sales in value. The new sector-by-sector analysis for Carbon Brief, based […]
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StealthGPT Review: Can It Really Fool AI Detectors?
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Have you ever spent hours carefully writing something, only to have an AI detector flag it as machine-generated? It can be frustrating. With AI writing tools becoming more advanced, so are the detection systems trying to spot them. That’s where StealthGPT comes in! StealthGPT is an AI tool that not only generates high-quality content but […]
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Student Writing Competition: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Law and Policy
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, together with New York Sea Grant, is pleased to announce a writing competition for law students interested in writing on legal and policy issues associated with marine carbon dioxide removal. The competition is being held in connection with a one-day symposium on the topic […]
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Beyond Manual Labeling: How ProVision Enhances Multimodal AI with Automated Data Synthesis
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed industries, making processes more intelligent, faster, and efficient. The data quality used to train AI is critical to its success. For this data to be useful, it must be labelled accurately, which has traditionally been done manually. Manual labelling, however, is often slow, error-prone, and expensive. The need for precise […]
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Robert Pierce, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer at DecisionNext – Interview Series
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Bob Pierce, PhD is co-founder and Chief Science Officer at DecisionNext. His work has brought advanced mathematical analysis to entirely new markets and industries, improving the way companies engage in strategic decision making. Prior to DecisionNext, Bob was Chief Scientist at SignalDemand, where he guided the science behind its solutions for manufacturers. Bob has held […]
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Bipartisan Strategies To Build A Strong American Industry
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£4.7 million from Innovate UK will support networks to conduct regulatory science
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Innovate UK has committed an additional £4.7 million to support 11 new networks focused on advancing regulatory science. The initiative aims to help policymakers keep pace with rapid technological developments by providing new tools, datasets, and approaches to regulation. Regulatory frameworks play a key role in shaping innovation, providing confidence to businesses and investors while […]
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Wastewater analysis at Bolivian lithium deposit explores how to avoid past environmental mistakes
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The Salar de Uyuni covers an area of over a million hectares on a high plateau in Bolivia (image credit: Avner Vengosh/Duke University). A US group has conducted the first thorough chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the lithium brine at the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia. Their findings could inform strategies to manage […]
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Council approves plans for Electric Arc Furnace in Port Talbot
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Sustainable steel solutions firm Tenova has been contracted to supply the Port Talbot site with an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF). On 18 February Neath Port Talbot Council’s Planning Committee approved Tata Steel UK’s proposals to deliver state-of-the-art Electric Arc Furnace steelmaking in Port Talbot. Rajesh Nair, CEO of Tata Steel UK, said: “We are very […]
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
As part of a series series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief profiles Germany – the nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Germany has a long history as an industrial powerhouse and it remains a centre of European manufacturing. As of 2023, it had the […]
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St Austell and Newquay MP visits local biogas plant
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Mr Noah Law MP visits the Fraddon Biogas Plant on 31 January. Last week, Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for Government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britain’s clean energy needs. The local MP for St Austell and Newquay had previously visited the Fraddon […]