Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa

The EU’s Global Gateway plan is challenging China’s Belt and Road Initiative to influence Africa, by providing funding that will expand access to electricity. [...]

Gemini 3 Pro scores 69% trust in blinded testing up from 16% for Gemini 2.5: The case for evaluating AI on real-world trust, not academic benchmarks

Just a few short weeks ago, Google debuted its Gemini 3 model, claiming it scored a leadership position in multiple AI benchmarks. But the challenge with vendor-provided benchmarks is that they are ju [...]

Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country

A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety? [...]

How Google’s Geospatial Reasoning Can Transform Crisis and Climate Response

Google’s latest advancements in geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming how we interact with spatial data. By integrating generative AI with specialized geospatial models, Google ha [...]

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez Landed Safely -- Then Came the Memes

The all-women crew landed safely, but then Jeff Bezos nearly faceplanted and Wendy's tweeted jokes at Katy Perry. [...]

US renewable boom passes key milestone in April

Small-scale solar helped renewables nearly triple coal generation on the US grid. [...]

How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors

Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon. [...]

Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries. [...]

US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit

Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down. [...]