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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

  • On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach,” which directs the U.S. attorney general to work with department and agency heads to “identify all State and local laws, regulations, causes of action, policies, and practices (collectively, State laws) burdening the identification, development, siting, production, or use […]

  • The process of discovering molecules that have the properties needed to create new medicines and materials is cumbersome and expensive, consuming vast computational resources and months of human labor to narrow down the enormous space of potential candidates. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT could streamline this process, but enabling an LLM to understand and […]

  • Medicaid has become a central point of a heated political battle, as Republican lawmakers push for deep cuts to help fund tax reductions. President Donald Trump and GOP leaders aim to slash Medicaid spending by $880 billion over the next decade, trimming roughly 10% of the program’s budget. However, the consequences could be severe as […]

  • People in Japan treat cooperative artificial agents with the same level of respect as they do humans, while Americans are significantly more likely to exploit AI for personal gain, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from LMU Munich and Waseda University Tokyo. As self-driving vehicles and other AI autonomous robots […]

  • On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down an important ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency. In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) to issue pollutant discharge permits. The case involved a wastewater treatment facility that […]

  • Chris Mahl is President and Chief Executive Officer at Pryon. With more than two decades of experience at some of the world’s most well-known enterprise software companies, Chris specializes in scaling go-to-market and operational strategies for technology companies at all stages of growth. Pryon provides a trusted, safe,
and proven path to implementing generative AI in […]

  • Canada has a remarkable claim to fame in the realm of artificial intelligence. While the United States and China dominate the global stage with massive venture capital flows and booming tech giants, Canadians can point to many of AI’s pioneering minds—from Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as the “Godfather of Deep Learning,” to Ilya Sutskever, co-founder […]

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, with its applications spreading across industries such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment. Among the most exciting areas for AI is scientific research. AI’s ability to process vast data, recognize complex patterns, and make predictions is accelerating the pace at which scientific discoveries are made. This raises an intriguing […]

  • In February of this year, the JPEG AI international standard was published, after several years of research aimed at using machine learning techniques to produce a smaller and more easily transmissible and storable image codec, without a loss in perceptual quality. From the official publication stream for JPEG AI, a comparison between Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio […]

  • Nearly 60 countries have drastically scaled back their plans for building coal-fired power plants since the Paris Agreement in 2015, according to figures released by Global Energy Monitor (GEM). Among those making cuts of 98% or more to their coal-power pipeline are some of the world’s biggest coal users, including Turkey, Vietnam and Japan. The […]

  • Ibrahim Muritala is Global Hydrogen Lead at the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Green hydrogen is being positioned to play a critical role in decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors of the economy. Developers are now exploring the integration of electrolyzers with offshore wind farms to produce green hydrogen at sea. The approach combines abundant offshore renewable energy […]

  • Global power-sector emissions hit an “all-time high” in 2024, despite solar and wind power continuing to grow at record speed, according to analysis from thinktank Ember.  Emissions from the sector increased by 1.6% year-on-year, to reach a record high of 14.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (tCO2).  This increase was predominantly due to a 4% growth […]

  • This Earth Month, we asked our team to share what they are doing to celebrate and honor the Earth. We’re focused on learning together, taking collective action, and finding joy outdoors, and we hope you’ll join us! How are you celebrating Earth Month?  Prep the garden for planting season, spend time alongside Mama Mississippi, and […]

  • Once upon a time, the tech clarion call was “cellphones for everyone” – and indeed mobile communications have revolutionized business (and the world). Today, the equivalent of that call is to give everyone access to AI applications. But the real power of AI is in harnessing it for the specific needs of businesses and organizations. The path blazed […]

  • Aditya Prakash is the founder and CEO of SKIDOS, an award-winning edtech company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that blends education and gaming to help children unlock their full potential. With a strong background in startups, strategic growth, and product innovation, Aditya has led SKIDOS to develop a proprietary SDK that transforms casual mobile games into […]

  • Image credit: Kingston University. Exciting possibilities come into view with the possibility of accurate, real-time air quality data at a hyper-local level, implemented in an affordable way — something beyond the reach of existing technology. A new project completed at Kingston University is claimed to realize this kind of important advance. The group behind the […]

  • Image credit: jax10289 / Shutterstock.com. New rules on how workplaces in England sort their recycling and waste came into force on 31 March, hopefully ending confusion over what goes where and enabling consistent, more streamlined collections. The measures are part of the Government’s Simpler Recycling plans and are expected to boost flatlining recycling rates, reduce […]

  • The London Waste Edmonton Eco Park in Enfield (image credit: chrisdorney / Shutterstock.com). By Kjetil Vikingstad, R&D and Founder of material and energy recovery firm Geminor, writing on the group’s website The UK is on the brink of a significant shift. Over the next two years, between 4 to 5 million tonnes of new EfW […]