Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made\u00a0<\/h3>\n
\u2014By Mary Nichols, distinguished counsel at the UCLA School of Law and the former chair of the California Air Resources Board, and Jeremy Tamanini, the founder of Dual Citizen, a sustainability research and advisory firm<\/em><\/p>\n This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic is likely to dominate the conversation: artificial intelligence. The host has already called on countries to commit to ensuring that AI is designed, powered, and deployed in ways that support climate action.<\/p>\n But so far, industries around the world aren\u2019t doing nearly enough to harness the technology to actually drive down the greenhouse-gas emissions heating up the planet. AI companies like to make very optimistic claims about AI\u2019s potential to help address climate change. The reality is far less promising.\u00a0Read the full story.<\/p>\n \n Tropical forests are our planet\u2019s biggest terrestrial carbon sink, accounting for around 40% of carbon stored on land. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, is part of an international network of researchers working to decipher the networks of animal and plant interactions that enable some forests to recover after destruction. <\/p>\n The goal is a low-cost, high-impact alternative to typical carbon-\u00adcrediting schemes, which plant huge areas with a single species of tree. <\/p>\n For over a decade, her research has helped show that these large \u201cmonocrop\u201d programs could be expensive mistakes\u2014and that more resilient forests can rebound naturally in just a few decades, re-creating ecosystems that suck up vast quantities of carbon dioxide. <\/p>\n Learn more about Dent, her work, and her impact on how we understand the role rainforests play in regulating our climate. <\/p>\n \u2014Matthew Ponsford<\/em><\/p>\n \n The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 Nvidia is investigating its own boss<\/strong> 2 Democrats are planning a blitz of investigations into Big Tech<\/strong> 3 The UN annual climate meeting starts today<\/strong> 4 Connecting fridges to the internet looks like a bad move now<\/strong> 5 Tesla is axing the Cybertruck <\/strong> 6 Iran might attack subsea cables if the US escalates again<\/strong> 7 Chinese AI labs are struggling to poach Silicon Valley workers<\/strong> 8 Online piracy is back <\/strong> 9 How do you land on a moon with almost no gravity?<\/strong> 10 Meet Philadelphia’s delivery robot saboteur<\/strong> Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014Jensen Huang apologizes to Nvidia employees for his affair with a suspected Chinese spy in a mass email sent yesterday, the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n One more thing<\/strong><\/p>\n AI models are marching into a creative field that is uniquely vulnerable to disruption: music. <\/p>\n AI-generated creative works\u2014from orchestra performances to heavy metal\u2014are poised to suffuse our lives more thoroughly than any other product of AI has done yet. <\/p>\n The songs are likely to blend into our streaming platforms, party and wedding playlists, soundtracks, and more, whether or not we notice who (or what) made them. <\/p>\n Here\u2019s why AI is set to forever change how we make music. <\/p>\n \u2014James O\u2019Donnell<\/em><\/p>\n We can still have nice things<\/strong><\/p>\n A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas?<\/em> Drop me a line<\/em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n + French bardcore band Corseval has given ABBA\u00a0a medieval makeover. \n #Download #empty #climate #claims #Nvidia #investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[418,8850,803,10306,6861,3861,15095],"class_list":["post-25479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-claims","tag-climate","tag-download","tag-empty","tag-investigation","tag-nvidia","tag-the-download-a-humanoid-cleans-house-and-samsung-builds-for-the-ai-boom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hands-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Meet the ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests \u00a0<\/h3>\n
Jensen Huang has admitted to intimacy with a suspected Chinese spy. (NYT $)
+ Shares in Nvidia were down 5% in pre-market trading.<\/em> (CNBC)
+ Huang\u2019s children are also employed by Nvidia.<\/em> (WSJ $)<\/p>\n
Reportedly starting with Apple, Meta, and Musk\u2019s companies. (WP $)
+ They\u2019re hoping to harness the data center backlash to rein in the AI sector.<\/em> (Vox $)
+ Here\u2019s why the midterms sparked an AI stock selloff.<\/em> (BBC)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first to be held after confirmation the planet will exceed 1.5 \u00b0C warming. (Nature)
+ How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
We still don\u2019t know who is behind recent hacks, or even if they\u2019re connected. (The Atlantic $)
+ Experts say they should be a \u201cwake up call\u201d for the industry.<\/em> (NPR)
+ Are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?<\/em> (The Guardian)
+ AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
RIP, we hardly knew ye. (Wired $)
+ The Cybertruck was on our \u201cworst tech flops of 2025\u201d list.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the message it\u2019s sending via several loitering tankers. (FT $)<\/p>\n
Startups like MiniMax and Moonshot have an uphill battle as they try to fill new US offices. (Rest of World)
+ China\u2019s AI models have Trump\u2019s AI world at war with itself.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n![\"\ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f3f4-200d-2620-fe0f.png\")
But this time, archivist zeal is at least as big a draw as accessing content for free. (The Verge)
+ Inside the race to save our online lives from a digital dark age.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a huge challenge to land on Martian moon Phobos\u2014here\u2019s how Japan\u2019s going to attempt it. (IEEE Spectrum)<\/p>\n
Carolyn Marvin is going to court for blocking them, and it\u2019s turning her into a local hero. (The Guardian)<\/p>\n\u201cLeading NVIDIA is the privilege of my life. My responsibility is to serve you and be worthy of your trust. I have fallen short of that responsibility.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nAI is coming for music, too<\/h4>\n
+ A stunning\u00a0collection of prehistoric engravings\u00a0has been found in a Spanish cave.
+\u00a0This browser game\u00a0flips a retro classic on its head: you control the asteroids, not the spaceship.
+ From a caiman in a wig to a leopard doing a handstand, the\u00a0Comedy Wildlife Awards\u00a0shortlist is a delight.<\/p>\n