Trends Critical Review: Is It Worth It for Trend Hunters?
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Every creator, entrepreneur, or strategist has felt the pressure to “stay ahead.” You scroll endlessly, trying to find the next big thing before it goes viral. But the truth is, by the time a trend hits your feed, it’s already old. The majority of viral or trending content experiences a sharp drop in engagement and […]
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AI Inference at Scale: Exploring NVIDIA Dynamo’s High-Performance Architecture
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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology advances, the need for efficient and scalable inference solutions has grown rapidly. Soon, AI inference is expected to become more important than training as companies focus on quickly running models to make real-time predictions. This transformation emphasizes the need for a robust infrastructure to handle large amounts of data with […]
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CivitAI Tightens Deepfake Rules Under Pressure From Mastercard and Visa
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CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW content – and particularly their TOS regarding celebrity LoRAs, one of the site’s most popular user-submitted content streams, which enable people to use freely downloadable adjunct […]
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Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature
Australia is heading to the polls for a general election on 3 May. The ruling centre-left Labor party has for the past three years attempted to fix Australia’s “climate-laggard” reputation by setting a legal net-zero target and approving a record number of renewable energy projects. Prime minister Anthony Albanese is also hoping, if reelected, to […]
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How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Is Standardizing AI Connectivity with Tools and Data
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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to gain importance across industries, the need for integration between AI models, data sources, and tools has become increasingly important. To address this need, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a crucial framework for standardizing AI connectivity. This protocol allows AI models, data systems, and tools to interact […]
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AI and the Future of Translation: A New Era of Human-AI Collaboration
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Artificial intelligence is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, and the world of translation is no exception. As AI-driven language models grow more sophisticated, one question continues to surface: Will AI replace human translators? At RWS, we believe the answer is clear—AI will never replace human expertise, but it will fundamentally change how humans and […]
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Arsham Ghahramani, PhD, Co-founder and CEO of Ribbon – Interview Series
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Arsham Ghahramani, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Ribbon. Based in Toronto and originally from the UK, Ghahramani has a background in both artificial intelligence and biology. His professional experience spans a range of domains, including high-frequency trading, recruitment, and biomedical research. Ghahramani began working in the field of AI around 2014. He completed […]
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Canada election 2025: What the manifestos say on nature, energy and climate
On 28 April, Canadians will go to the polls to vote for the next prime minister. The election comes after Justin Trudeau stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in January following nine years leading the party as prime minister. Trudeau cited “internal battles” within the party for the decision, and stated […]
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New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return
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When chemists design new chemical reactions, one useful piece of information involves the reaction’s transition state — the point of no return from which a reaction must proceed. This information allows chemists to try to produce the right conditions that will allow the desired reaction to occur. However, current methods for predicting the transition state […]
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Cropped 23 April 2025: Beef vs the Amazon; BRICS vs tariffs; Ag alphabet
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Beef vs the Amazon COP30 LOOMS: Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year, […]
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Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035
A Conservative victory over the Liberals in the Canadian election could lead to nearly 800m extra tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, according to Carbon Brief analysis. This amounts to the entire annual emissions of the UK and France combined. These extra emissions would cause around C$233bn ($169bn) in climate damages around […]
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US Sanctions Backfire: Huawei’s AI Chips Accelerate China’s Self-Reliance
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Huawei Technologies is preparing to mass-ship a pair of advanced artificial intelligence chips – the Ascend 910C and upcoming Ascend 920 – marking a big moment in the global AI hardware arena. These new chips are poised to fill a void left by U.S. export restrictions that have curbed China’s access to top-tier AI accelerators […]
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Column: Protecting Clean Energy Tax Credits Is Essential To Virginia
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The ‘Download More Labels!’ Illusion in AI Research
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A common view in current machine learning research is that machine learning itself can be used to improve the quality of AI dataset annotations – particularly image captions intended for use in vision-language models (VLMs). This line of thinking is driven by the high cost of human annotation, and the added burden of supervising annotator […]
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UK’s first at-scale EV battery recycling and refining plant begins construction in Plymouth
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Once constructed, the Plymouth plant will produce intermediate battery materials. (The plant is titled “ACT3” within the group’s published scale-up pathway). Lithium-ion battery recycling technology firm Altilium says it has commenced construction of the UK’s first at-scale EV battery recycling facility with integrated chemical refining capabilities, located in Plymouth, Devon. The group claims a first […]
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How Are Water Projects Monitored for Long-Term Success?
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Keeping clean water flowing long-term takes more than just starting a project—it requires regular monitoring. Experts track data on water quality, sediment, and fish to check for harmful substances like low oxygen levels. This helps protect the environment and ensures the project is working. Local water committees help with day-to-day oversight. They fill out checklists, […]
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Cities on hills and shimmering lakes: A daughter’s Earth Day tribute 🌎
Climate Solutions // ISSUE # 105 // HOTHOUSE Sometime back in 2022, when Michael Coren was still building Hothouse with me, he once remarked how I seem to just ‘see’ things—from editorial taste or direction to business ideas. Others have commented on how I seem able to put words to things that make the intangible […]
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“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
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MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI models or come up with new ones. For instance, the researchers used their framework to combine elements of two […]