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Cutting planet-warming pollution to near-zero will take more than inventing new clean technologies—it will require changing how the world invests in them. That's especially true for industries like aviation, where developing and adopting greener solutions is risky and expensive, according to a University of California San Diego commentary piece in... Read more

Indian IT giant Infosys raised the floor of its revenue forecast for the current fiscal year on Thursday after reporting stronger-than-expected results for the July-September quarter.... Read more

New Macquarie University research shows how carmakers' sustainability talk can signal whether they're truly cleaning up—or just greenwashing.... Read more

Canadian leaders said Wednesday that Jeep-maker Stellantis's decision to invest $13 billion in the United States threatens Canadian jobs, urging action to counter what they called another casualty of President Donald Trump's trade war.... Read more

A study finds that replacing natural gas with electric and biomass power, along with improved energy efficiency, could help some pulp and paper mills reach zero net emissions. The paper, "Advancing sustainability in the U.S. pulp and paper industry: Decarbonization through energy efficiency, electrification, low-carbon fuels, and the social cost... Read more

Microsoft will supply its artificial intelligence technology to every public school district and community college in Washington next year, part of a nationwide campaign to spread AI training and usage.... Read more

Software giant Salesforce is planning to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to strengthen the city's dominance in artificial intelligence.... Read more

Dutch tech giant ASML warned Wednesday of a steep fall in its China business next year, as it booked flat net profits in the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.... Read more

Chipmaker Nexperia said Tuesday the Chinese government had banned it from exporting goods from China, after Dutch authorities seized control of the Netherlands-based firm citing management concerns.... Read more

How much pollution a facility engaged in production or resource extraction emits isn't just based on its location, its industry or the type of work it does. That's what our team of environmental and financial economists found when we examined how corporate characteristics shape pollution emissions.... Read more

Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that they are expanding their partnership with the deployment of 50,000 AMD graphic processing units beginning in the third quarter of 2026 with further expansion to follow.... Read more

A year after tech firm OpenAI roiled Hollywood with the release of its Sora AI video tool, Chief Executive Sam Altman was back—with a potentially groundbreaking update.... Read more

When a Texas oil company first announced controversial plans to reactivate three drilling rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara County, investor presentations boasted that the venture had "massive resource potential" and was "primed for cash flow generation."... Read more

Google said Tuesday it will invest $15 billion in India over the next five years, as it announced a giant data center and artificial intelligence base in the country.... Read more

Throughout history, control over money has been one of the most powerful levers of state authority. Rulers have long understood that whoever issues and manages the currency also commands the economy and, by extension, society itself.... Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law a first-of-its-kind law regulating artificial intelligence chatbots, defying a push from the White House to leave such technology unchecked.... Read more

Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify.... Read more

Artificial intelligence now makes it possible to mass-produce podcasts with completely virtual hosts, a development that is disrupting an industry still finding its footing and operating on a fragile business model.... Read more

Some of the world's biggest tech firms have soared in value over the last year. As AI evolves at pace, there are hopes that it will improve lives in ways that people could never have imagined a decade ago—in sectors as diverse as health care, employment and scientific discovery.... Read more

Austria's data protection authority has determined that Microsoft "illegally" tracked students using its education software and must grant them access to their data, a privacy campaign group said Friday.... Read more

Britain's antitrust watchdog on Friday labeled Google a "strategic" player in the online search advertising market, paving the way for regulators to force the company to change its business practices to ensure more competition in that market.... Read more

The EU Friday demanded digital giants including Snapchat and YouTube explain how they are protecting children from online harm, as all but two member states signaled openness to restricting social media access for minors.... Read more

To fast-track the buildout of data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI), tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and OpenAI are pouring money into construction projects. Globally, companies are predicted to spend $375 billion in 2025 on AI infrastructure—a 67% surge from last year, according to an estimate... Read more

Today, AI technologies are being used in the public sector for administrative cases and as support in the various steps that lead up to a decision. This adds a transparency in that it shows the pathway to the decision.... Read more

Under current supply chain conditions, the United States is on track to fall significantly short of surging demand for three clean energy sources—wind, solar, and battery—due to the scarcity of critical raw materials, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University.... Read more

Patents are valuable for the generation of novel ideas through technological discovery. In recent years, scientists have made several attempts to identify technology opportunities by determining vacancies in patent maps—visual representations of patent distribution in particular technological fields created using dimensionality reduction techniques. However, there is a major bottleneck in... Read more

Banks are among the most tightly regulated institutions in the United States, but a new University of Michigan study suggests they may be sharing customers' personal data far more freely than most people realize.... Read more

Alphabet Inc.'s Google wants to retain the right to bundle its popular mapping and video apps with its Gemini AI service, a lawyer for the company told a federal judge Wednesday, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal that would bar the practice.... Read more

Household-battery startup Base Power Inc. raised $1 billion to expand its energy-storage business and build a manufacturing plant in Texas.... Read more

Elon Musk has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a dispute with four former Twitter executives over their dismissal on the day he acquired the social network, now known as X, a court filing said on Wednesday.... Read more

The future of the electricity market may depend less on big power plants and more on everyday choices made at home. Nayeem Rahman's dissertation at the University of Vaasa shows how consumers are gaining influence through energy flexibility, with direct implications for sustainability and costs.... Read more

The EU on Wednesday told European businesses in critical sectors to ramp up their uptake of artificial intelligence and pushed for the bloc to cut its dependence on foreign AI providers.... Read more

What if your biggest competitive asset is not how fast AI helps you work, but how well you question what it produces?... Read more

The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution.... Read more

When cybercriminals targeted the UK nursery chain Kido, it represented a disturbing new low for the hackers. They threatened to expose personal data about young children and their families, shocking parents and cybersecurity experts alike.... Read more

Hydrogen fuel provides energy without producing carbon dioxide emissions, which makes it a promising option for decarbonizing the economy. The U.S. is a major producer of hydrogen, contributing around 10% of the global annual production, but the quantity of emissions produced when hydrogen is harvested depends on the method.... Read more

Noisy TV commercials were banned in California on Monday, with a new law that demands pitchmen turn the volume down.... Read more

The dizzying investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure do not constitute a bubble but rather represent today's "new normal" to meet skyrocketing user demand, Fidji Simo, OpenAI's de facto number two, said on Monday.... Read more

India's leading body of pilots has asked the civil aviation regulator to inspect all Boeing 787 Dreamliners operating in the country for electrical issues after one of the planes abruptly deployed an emergency power system midair over the weekend.... Read more

Alphabet Inc.'s Google has spent the past week in Virginia federal court seeking to persuade a judge that selling off its advertising exchange is too risky, technologically difficult and would disrupt the market.... Read more

When OpenAI released its new video generation model Sora 2 last week, users delighted in creating hyper-realistic clips inspired by real cartoons and video games, from South Park to Pokemon.... Read more

Artificial intelligence technology is in an "industrial bubble," Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told a tech conference in Italy on Friday, but the benefits to society will be "immense."... Read more

A review reimagines solar-driven water electrolysis not as a mere hydrogen production technology but instead as a relatively versatile platform for sustainable chemical manufacturing, according to Professor Fatwa F. Abdi from the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK).... Read more

U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia's computer chips.... Read more

OpenAI could now be the world's most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk's SpaceX and TikTok's parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker.... Read more

The staggering investments in artificial intelligence keep coming: Last week, AI chip giant Nvidia announced it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the frontrunner in generative AI, build data centers.... Read more

Human trafficking rings are at their most dangerous when they masquerade as legitimate commercial activity. Illicit massage businesses (IMBs) are one of the most common ways in which exploitive networks operate in plain sight.... Read more

A Dutch court Thursday ordered Meta to ensure that Facebook and Instagram users in the Netherlands have "direct and easily available" access to a feed that is not based on algorithmic profiling.... Read more

Months after Elon Musk left the Trump administration to the relief of Tesla investors worried about boycotts, the world's richest man has announced some good news: Sales of Tesla cars are back.... Read more

DoorDash has finalized its acquisition of the U.K. food delivery company Deliveroo, saying Thursday that the boards of both companies approved the nearly $4 billion deal announced earlier this year.... Read more