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Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

How Allbirds became an AI company overnight—and triggered a 600% stock surge.

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The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

UBC-led study challenges the idea that an always-available AI companion can substitute for human connection.

A new UBC–InBC partnership is creating a $20-million venture fund to accelerate and scale innovative university spin-offs, supporting economic and social impact across B.C.

Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to block state’s proposed 5% wealth tax

A new life-cycle analysis reveals that bio-based plastics are better for the climate but worse for biodiversity. The greenest option is reducing demand.

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How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

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Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Abstract. Eco-anxiety is surging as environmental crises escalate. As the ecopsychology literature reveals, the effects and intensity of eco-anxiety vary across cultures, circumstances, and personalit...

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

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An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...

The report identified 20 jobs at significant risk from AI, 15 of which could see more than half of their positions replaced.

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Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

The recent US disengagement from global governance has revived concerns—first theorized in the 1970s and 1980s—about the vulnerability of international institutions to hegemonic decline. While these ...

Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

We need to stop falling for anti-regulation hysteria if we’re to get control of digital harms