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At an energy technology conference, climate change hardly gets a mention and experts range from cautiously optimistic to downright nervous about the field’s future.

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve sea-level rise forecasts and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.

The thing is, autopsies can sometimes reveal more than what a person died from.

We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.

For the last couple of years we’ve tried to predict what’s coming next in AI. It’s a bit of a fool’s game given how fast this industry moves… But honestly, we’re on a roll, so we’re doing it again. So what’s coming in 2025? We’re going to ignore the obvious here: You can bet that agents and smaller, more efficient, language models will continue to shape the industry. Instead, here are five alternative picks from our AI team: https://trib.al/6pbfonD

From laser steel to fuel made from rocks, we look inside the 2025 ARPA-E energy technology conference.

Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration’s cuts to funding to AIDS organizations, new modeling suggests. In an executive order issued January 20, President Donald Trump paused new foreign aid funding to global health programs and, four days later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stop-work order on existing foreign aid assistance. Surveys suggest that these changes forced more than a third of global organizations that provide essential HIV services to close within days of the announcements. Hundreds of thousands of people are losing access to HIV treatments as a result. Women and girls are missing out on cervical cancer screening and services for gender-based violence, too. A waiver Rubio later issued in an attempt to restore lifesaving services has had very little impact. “We are in a crisis,” said Jennifer Sherwood, director of research, public policy, at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, at a data-sharing event on March 17 at Columbia University in New York.

Europe is on the cusp of a new dawn in commercial space technology. As global political tensions intensify and relationships with the US become increasingly strained, several European companies are now planning to conduct their own launches in an attempt to reduce the continent’s reliance on American rockets.

Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. The trend has big implications.

Google has owned search for decades. But is its market dominance keeping it from innovating in the age of AI?