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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

  • Resource management firm Veolia says it is now saving 12GWh of gas use per year by using a new distillate product as a fuel for the steam plant that supports the solvent recovery operations at its Garston, Liverpool facility. By developing and testing the new fuel, and using it as a substitute for fossil fuel, […]

  • Friends, we are in the midst of a coup. The things happening in Washington D.C. these days are unconstitutional and illustrate how little our elected officials actually understand the complexities of our federal administrations. It is terrifying on many levels. I think we need to stop asking people if they believe in climate change and […]

  • Ashish Agarwal is an accomplished Chief Technology Officer with extensive experience in the industrial automation industry. He has a robust skill set encompassing software development, start-ups, mobile payments, embedded systems, and mobile devices. Ashish co-founded Weather Risk Management Services Pvt. Ltd. (WRMS) and has been serving as the Chief Technology Officer since January 2016. In […]

  • Artificial intelligence has long been trying to mimic human-like logical reasoning. While it has made massive progress in pattern recognition, abstract reasoning and symbolic deduction have remained tough challenges for AI. This limitation becomes especially evident when AI is being used for mathematical problem-solving, a discipline that has long been a testament to human cognitive […]

  • 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 […]