Signals

Uber and Lyft have found a new way to evade a New York City law guaranteeing rideshare drivers a minimum wage. Since June, drivers say they’ve been arbitrarily locked out of apps when they want to work — setting the companies up to save hundreds of millions.

Today in New York City, on the margins of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI and announced other initiatives to harness the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance sustainable development globally.  The Partnership for Global Inclusivity on […]

Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and announced a new

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has lost an appeal in a Kenyan labor court. On Friday, the court ruled that Meta could be sued in Kenya over the mass sacking of content moderators.

An Ohio power company is trying to make major tech companies pay more of the costs of upgrading the electric grid to accommodate power-hungry data centers.

The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax

Top aides to President Joe Biden have been crafting a proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund that would allow the US to invest in national security interests including technology, energy, and critical links in the supply chain, according to people familiar with the effort.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors.

The sale price of 135 West 50th Street in Midtown, which is only 35 percent full, was a sign of how much the pandemic upended the market for office buildings in New York City.

The asset management unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has walked away from the world’s biggest climate alliance for investors, marking the latest in a string of similar defections amid continued Republican Party attacks on green finance.

With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.

Two years in, union leaders say Biden’s big climate law is making a difference.

Global study reveals dirty air is second only to malnutrition as cause of death among under-fives

State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement

An innovative insurance program is paying daily wage laborers in India a portion of their income on days the temperature breaches a threshold.

The unrest is centered around the country’s quota system that requires a third of government jobs to be reserved for relatives of veterans who had fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.

British dogs and cats are set to become the first animals in Europe to chow down on meat cultivated from chicken cells.

Acknowledging the long-term impact of decisions made today, De Koffiejongens wants to ask preteens what they'd do if they were in charge.

UK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:      Section 1.  Purpose.  Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril.  Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges…

City councillors pass motion to let community groups, charities and neighbours cultivate fruit and veg

The charity Cycling UK has released new analysis showing that the number of people killed while cycling, per billion miles, on British roads fell by nearly a quarter compared with pre-pandemic years.

A guide to how China, the EU and the US are reining in artificial intelligence.

Andrew Gray is running for office in Selby and Ainsty on a manifesto generated by an artificial intelligence tool.

Reaching commercial production won’t be easy.