The EU and China have finalized targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, reshaping the landscape for ESG, sustainable finance, and corporate responsibility. New ISO net-zero standards and reformed EU disclosure rules signal that the era of… Read More »EU and China Lock In 90% Emissions Cuts by 2040: What It Means for Business and Citizens
The EU has formally approved a 90% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by 2040, marking a historic step in global climate policy despite significant political resistance. The decision reshapes the outlook for businesses, energy systems, and citizens across Europe —… Read More »EU Locks In 90% Emissions Cut by 2040: What It Means for Europe and the World
The EU has finalised stricter SFDR rules to combat greenwashing in sustainable finance, even as methane regulations and corporate ESG mandates face mounting resistance from member states and global political actors. These parallel developments reveal the growing complexity of translating… Read More »EU Tightens Sustainable Finance Rules While Methane Tensions Expose the Limits of Green Policy
Over 70% of mid-sized European and North American businesses plan to invest in green technology by end of 2026, driven by breakthroughs in energy storage, hydrogen logistics, and low-carbon construction. Here’s what the cleantech surge means for Europe’s energy transition… Read More »Green Tech Investment Hits a Tipping Point: What 2026’s Cleantech Breakthroughs Mean for Europe
Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year’s Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera… Read More »Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial
That sure is a man in a cube, alright. | Image: NBC / Jim Henson Company I’m sure we’re all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle slightly more mature subject matter.… Read More »The Cube is Jim Henson’s little-known proto-Black Mirror masterpiece
The LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El… Read More »China claims the world’s fastest supercomputer
Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants,… Read More »Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine
China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that… Read More »China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
The EU has finalized a sweeping reform of its carbon market, raising industrial emission reduction targets to 62% by 2030 and introducing a world-first carbon border tax. A new Social Climate Fund worth nearly $97 billion aims to protect vulnerable… Read More »EU Carbon Market Reform: Higher Targets, New Taxes, and a Fund for Vulnerable Citizens