Waymo And Uber Support Bad, Incumbent-Protecting Laws In DC And NJ

Requiring human drivers, 3 sensors, fat permit fees and per-mile taxes are the wrong sorts of regulations, and the companies should avoid endorsing them

Record-Breaking Heat’s Hidden Costs—6 Habits Worsening Mental Health

Record summer heat is transforming vacation into a survival season, severely impacting mental health and productivity.

Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close
Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close

California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general …

Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

A judge partially granted the request from a dozen state attorneys general to temporarily place the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on hold, as reported by Variety and Reuters. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said that based on the new company’s market share, “the Court is persuaded that it can presume […]

Big Pharma And Psychedelic Medicine—Eli Lilly’s $3.8 Billion Bet

Eli Lilly’s acquisition of AtaiBeckley for up to $3.8 billion, marks a pivotal moment for psychedelic medicine.

Big Pharma And Psychedelic Medicine: Eli Lilly’s $3.8 Billion Bet

Eli Lilly’s acquisition of AtaiBeckley for up to $3.8 billion, marks a pivotal moment for psychedelic medicine.

A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu,…

Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds

When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google’s AI answers. Often the user never visits the platform at all. The fin…

Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2…

Clean Energy Tech Deals Are Booming—Powered By Data Centers

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how the U.S. EV market is about to get quirkier and the bipartisan appeal of recycling.