Opinion
Carbon pricing alone is not enough — other measures are needed to meet Paris Agreement targets
As the world grapples with the dramatic effects of record temperatures in recent months, the United Nations has issued a dire warning about the...
Google’s Gemini: is the new AI model really better than ChatGPT?
Google Deepmind has recently announced Gemini, its new AI model to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While both models are examples of “generative AI”, which learn to find...
Indo-Pacific trade deal prospects dim as 2024 US election year politics loom
The Biden administration has vowed to continue negotiating an ambitious Asia trade deal, but election-year pressures and resistance to tough commitments from some countries make a deal unlikely, trade experts and business groups say.
AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a long way off.
Heart damage: another reason to cut down on children’s screen time
The effects of prolonged screen use during childhood have been extensively studied in recent years. Evidence indicates that excessive screen time is harmful both to neurological development and socialization.
