DeBriefed 9 May 2025: Australia elects climate action; Spain ‘committed’ to renewables; Taiwan’s nuclear phaseout

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Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Australia votes for climate action CLIMATE PROMISE: Australia’s Labor party has secured a second term in power following a landslide election victory, reported CNN. Prime minister Anthony Albanese “reiterated his commitment to climate action” and his government’s […]

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The government yesterday (on 8 May) tabled a new amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill which experts warn will further undermine environmental protections. Introduced earlier this year, the flagship legislative proposal aims to expedite the planning process for new developments in England. However, scores of environmental NGOs and public and parliamentary bodies – […]

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The International Property Flood Resilience Association (IPFRA) launched on 9 May with a mission to support, promote, and grow the property flood resilience (PFR) sector as it becomes an increasingly mainstream part of construction and environmental resilience strategies. Until now, there has been no central organisation representing the interests of contractors, surveyors, installers, and other […]

Climate Generation Partnered with Birchbark Books this spring to support educators at the Teach Climate Network Summer Institute. We asked their staff what their favorite books and stories about climate justice were. The following are the latest favorite climate fiction and nonfiction recommendations from the booksellers of Birchbark Books! FICTION: The Seed Keeper by Diane […]

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Artificial intelligence (AI) remains one of the strongest drivers of venture capital investment, proving that the hype cycle isn’t even close to finished. According to a recent EY report, 37% of fundraising in the third quarter of 2024 was for AI-related companies, similar to second-quarter volume. Startups using AI are getting noticed for their ability […]

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Matthew Bernardini is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zenapse, where he leads the company’s vision and oversees the development of its proprietary AI foundation model into category-leading products. With a background as a product marketer, data strategist, and technologist, he brings a blend of entrepreneurial experience—having achieved four successful exits—and corporate expertise from organizations such […]

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This article discusses a new release of a multimodal Hunyuan Video world model called ‘HunyuanCustom’. The new paper’s breadth of coverage, combined with several issues in many of the supplied example videos at the project page*, constrains us to more general coverage than usual, and to limited reproduction of the huge amount of video material […]

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Many businesses struggle to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to high costs and technical complexity, making advanced models inaccessible to smaller organizations. DeepSeek-GRM addresses this challenge to improve AI efficiency and accessibility, helping bridge this gap by refining how AI models process and generate responses. The model employs Generative Reward Modeling (GRM) to guide AI […]

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EfW operator enfinium has selected Isometric as its carbon registry partner for the Parc Adfer carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Currently a candidate for grant support through the UK Government’s Track-1 HyNet Expansion programme, the Parc Adfer CCS project is forecast to generate up to 120,000 tonnes of highly durable carbon removal credits once […]

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Heat exchangers are more efficient and convenient for heating digester tanks. By Matt Hale, Global Key Account Director, HRS Heat Exchangers The first four months of 2025 have been among the most turbulent in recent history in terms of global investor and market confidence. However, despite this – and despite emerging differences in environmental policy […]

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One of the water courses sampled in the study. A pilot study has reportedly succeeded in offering a better understanding of contamination sources in national waterbodies, providing water companies with the capability of identifying and mitigating inputs of faecal pollution in UK rivers. WRc Senior Water Science Microbiology Consultant Daisy Allen said the study undertaken […]

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Did you know that a large part of human communication (55%) is nonverbal? This includes what we see in body language and facial expressions. That means when you share a post, a song, or a message online, those watching are connecting more to what they see than what they hear. But here’s the thing: not everyone […]

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WisdomAI, a new force in enterprise AI, has officially emerged from stealth with $23 million in funding, led by Coatue Ventures alongside Madrona, GTM Capital, and The Anthology Fund. Designed to overcome the limitations of legacy business intelligence tools, WisdomAI introduces a first-of-its-kind Agentic Data Insights Platform—a system that empowers organizations to gain proactive, contextual, […]

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AI-based solutions are becoming increasingly common, but those in the security industry have been leveraging AI for years—they’ve just been using the word “analytics.” As businesses seek new ways to use AI to create a competitive advantage, many are beginning to recognize that video devices represent an increasingly valuable data source—one that can generate actionable […]

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Akshita Iyer, Founder and CEO of Ome, is a neuroscience graduate from Duke University whose entrepreneurial path was sparked by a personal experience with a kitchen fire. This pivotal moment led to the creation of Ome, a company focused on reimagining the cooking experience through smart home innovation. Under her leadership, Ome introduced the patented […]

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In the fast-evolving world of AI-generated code, reviewing that code has become the new bottleneck. CodeAnt AI, a San Francisco-based startup backed by Y Combinator, has just raised $2 million in seed funding to change that. Its mission: make reviewing code as intelligent and effortless as writing it with AI. The round, which values CodeAnt […]

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The 2025 State of Pentesting Survey Report by Pentera paints a striking picture of a cybersecurity landscape under siege—and evolving fast. This isn’t just a story about defending digital borders; it’s a blueprint of how enterprises are transforming their approach to security, driven by automation, AI-based tools, and the unrelenting pressure of real-world threats. Breaches […]

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. That is according to a new study, published in Nature, which calculates the number of unprecedented extreme events that people born in different decades and countries might live […]