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Artificial Intelligence

The Weekend a Single US Order Turned Every Government Into an AI Sovereignty Hawk

From Ottawa to Brussels to Riyadh, the US order disabling Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals did something no policy paper had managed in years: it made the

June 15, 2026

by Europe Desk

Trump shakes hands with Macron during a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, May 2017

Trump Deploys His Most Familiar Trade Weapon Against France: A 100% Wine Tariff for a Digital Tax

Trump threatened 100% tariffs on all French wines and champagne on the opening day of the G7 summit in Évian, demanding Paris repeal its 3% digital services tax on US technology companies. It is the third iteration of the same

June 15, 2026

by News Room

Google Cloud and Wesfarmers agentic AI retail partnership behind Bunnings selling through Google AI Mode

Bunnings Is About to Sell You a Drill From Inside Google’s AI, No Website Required

Bunnings will be among the first Australian retailers to sell directly inside Google's AI Mode, letting

Aerial view of Firmus Project Southgate AI data centre campus in northern Tasmania

A Singapore AI Firm’s Data Centre Is Set to Become Tasmania’s Biggest Power User

Firmus is building a A$2.1 billion AI data centre outside Launceston that will draw up to

NASA Landsat 9 satellite image of the Greenland ice sheet refreshed by new snowfall after the 2025 melt season

Earth’s Day Is Now Getting Longer Faster Than Any Time in 3.6 Million Years. The Reason Is Ice Melt.

A March 2026 study by Kiani Shahvandi and Soja published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth concludes the planet's day length is lengthening at 1.33 milliseconds per century, a rate

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA Landsat 8 satellite image of Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland showing rift patterns in the floating ice tongue

The Cold Blob in the Atlantic Just Got a Cause. The Ocean Current That Warms Europe Is Slowing Down.

A new study by Stefan Rahmstorf and colleagues, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, concludes that the Atlantic 'cold blob' south of Greenland is being caused by a weakening Atlantic Meridional

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA TROPOMI satellite image of nitrogen dioxide concentrations across the continental United States showing the largest urban and industrial source regions

California’s Carbon-Capture Rulebook Just Made Industry Happy and Environmentalists Furious

The California Air Resources Board released its draft rules this week to govern carbon-capture, removal and storage projects under the 2022 SB 905 law. Industry asked for the scope to expand to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA GISS global temperature anomaly map for 2024 the warmest year on record

Seventy Scientists Just Put the 1.5-Degree Number on a Date. It Is Three Years Away.

The fourth Indicators of Global Climate Change report, compiled by more than seventy scientists across seventeen countries and published Wednesday in Earth System Science Data, finds the planet's remaining carbon budget for

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA MODIS Terra satellite image of Amazon deforestation patterns in Brazil along the Canguan River

Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Fell 61 Percent in May. Trump’s New Tariffs Just Lost Their Climate Cover.

Brazil's space agency reported on Wednesday that Amazon deforestation in May 2026 was 61 percent lower than May 2025, and that clearing across the previous ten months was down 37 percent. The

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA ISS astronaut photograph of Perth Western Australia capital city

Australia Will Wire 18 More Community Batteries Into Perth and Bunbury, the Domestic Half of Bowen’s COP31 Bet

The Albanese federal government and the Cook Labor state government will install 18 new community batteries across Perth and Bunbury, the same week Australia's incoming COP31 negotiations president told reporters in Bonn

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA ISS astronaut photograph of Lake Geneva and the Rhone valley including Evian-les-Bains the G7 summit site

The G7 Climate Agenda Is Number Eight on the Évian Agenda. The War in the Strait of Hormuz Is Number One.

G7 leaders convene Monday in Evian, France for a three-day summit where climate change appears as the eighth agenda item, behind an Israel-Iran war that has closed the Strait of Hormuz, an

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

NASA SeaWiFS satellite image of East Africa including the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean coastline

Africa Will Host the Ocean Summit for the First Time on Monday, and It Wants the Fossil-Fuel Conversation in Writing

The 11th Our Ocean Conference opens Monday in Mombasa, the first time the global ocean summit will be held on the African continent in its eleven-year history. Kenya is using the moment

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

Roku Is For Sale: The Streaming Door Through Which the Rest of Hollywood Watches Television Is Now on the Auction Block

Roku confirmed on Friday it is exploring strategic options including a sale, and that it is already in talks with at least one US media company. Shares jumped 20 percent to a

June 13, 2026

Business·Entertainment·News·Technology

NASA JPL satellite image of the Tijuana River wastewater plume entering the Pacific Ocean off San Diego

Newsom Just Released $46 Million for the Tijuana Sewage Crisis, Because Washington Is Not Going To

California Governor Gavin Newsom opened the first tranche of Proposition 4 climate-bond funding on Thursday to clean up the Tijuana River sewage crisis, $46 million toward an environmental-justice disaster that has dumped

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

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The Weekend a Single US Order Turned Every Government Into an AI Sovereignty Hawk

Trump Deploys His Most Familiar Trade Weapon Against France: A 100% Wine Tariff for a Digital Tax

Bunnings Is About to Sell You a Drill From Inside Google’s AI, No Website Required

A Singapore AI Firm’s Data Centre Is Set to Become Tasmania’s Biggest Power User

Earth’s Day Is Now Getting Longer Faster Than Any Time in 3.6 Million Years. The Reason Is Ice Melt.

The Cold Blob in the Atlantic Just Got a Cause. The Ocean Current That Warms Europe Is Slowing Down.

California’s Carbon-Capture Rulebook Just Made Industry Happy and Environmentalists Furious

Seventy Scientists Just Put the 1.5-Degree Number on a Date. It Is Three Years Away.

Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Fell 61 Percent in May. Trump’s New Tariffs Just Lost Their Climate Cover.

Australia Will Wire 18 More Community Batteries Into Perth and Bunbury, the Domestic Half of Bowen’s COP31 Bet

The G7 Climate Agenda Is Number Eight on the Évian Agenda. The War in the Strait of Hormuz Is Number One.

Africa Will Host the Ocean Summit for the First Time on Monday, and It Wants the Fossil-Fuel Conversation in Writing

Roku Is For Sale: The Streaming Door Through Which the Rest of Hollywood Watches Television Is Now on the Auction Block

Newsom Just Released $46 Million for the Tijuana Sewage Crisis, Because Washington Is Not Going To

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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