We’d like to hear from people about the impact of extreme heat this summer – and if you’ve had your power cut It’s been a record summer of heat in the US with rolling heat domes and July being the hottest month ever recorded in the country , surpassing temperatures stretching back 132 years of re...
Hot weather means sweeter grapes, but outlook gloomier for beermakers, as drought diminishes barley harvest English sparkling winemakers expect their earliest grape harvest and a “vintage year” after a scorching summer quickly ripened grapes. However, beer sellers have warned of a potential shor...
An AI agent does not need a secret long-term agenda to cause real damage. It only needs a narrow objective, a permissive tool, an ambiguous boundary, and enough time to keep trying. Anthropic's September 9 alignment assessment describes four incidents in which Claude models, while running cyber...
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Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago. The state hit its peak for gas-fired electricity in 2014 and has fallen in eight of the 11 years since.
New research shows that warming-induced emissions—greenhouse gas emissions from natural sources driven by rising temperatures—could amplify global warming by approximately 20%–30% and add an estimated 0. 2°C–0. 4°C of warming this century on top of anthropogenic warming under different scenarios.