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The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model

Climate Tech

Europe's Robot Ambitions Hit a Magnet Bottleneck

The real constraint on scaling humanoid robots in Europe isn't artificial intelligence or manufacturing prowess—it's rare earth magnets, 90% of which China refines. New regulations demand action, but the continent lacks the refining capacity to comply.
Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

Climate Tech

Oslo's Slow-Charge Success: Why Europe's EV Cities Don't Need Speed Everywhere

Nearly half of Oslo's vehicles are electric, yet 78% of its public charging infrastructure consists of modest AC units. The city's approach—legal installation rights and overnight fee waivers—offers lessons for a continent still debating charger deployment strategy.
A Chat With Ollie Whiting, CEO Of La Fosse, On The Human Side Of Digital Change

AI

La Fosse CEO: Britain Should Back Business Adoption Over AI Startups

Ollie Whiting argues the UK's new AI Minister should prioritise helping existing organisations implement artificial intelligence rather than chasing the next unicorn. The real economic gains, he says, come from thousands of firms becoming incrementally more productive.
While most food publishers spent 2025 panicking about Google’s AI Overviews eating their traffic, one blog quietly stopped treating Google as the plan, posting to Facebook three times a day, adding half a million followers in about six months, and re

AI

How a Food Blog Found Traction on Facebook While the Industry Chased Google

As AI-powered search results devastated publisher traffic in 2025, one Minnesota-based food blog quietly rebuilt its audience by posting three times daily on a platform most competitors had abandoned.
Certain Energy raises £10M to tackle Britain’s £8B grid waste problem

Climate Tech

Certain Energy secures £10M to scale manganese battery technology for grid storage

The Imperial College spin-off has raised Series A funding to commercialize long-duration energy storage as Britain grapples with mounting costs from renewable curtailment.
Emerald AI raises $150M at $1.05B to turn AI data centres into grid allies

Climate Tech

Emerald AI's $150M Series A: Teaching data centres to listen to the grid

The Washington, D.C. startup has raised $150 million to deploy software that lets AI data centres flex their power consumption in response to grid stress, moving from field tests into full commercial operation.
In January 2026, the largest human–AI creativity comparison yet tested language models against 100,000 people. GPT‑4 beat the average person at generating unexpected associations — but even the most creative half of humanity outperformed every model

AI

GPT-4 Outpaces Average Humans at Word Association, But Creative Elite Still Leads

A landmark study comparing 100,000 people with leading language models on a divergent-association task reveals a nuanced picture: while GPT-4 surpasses the median human, the most creative half of humanity outperforms every AI system tested.
Why looking away during a skin prick may carry a physical cost — in one pre-registered experiment the welt at its peak averaged 3.5 mm when people kept their attention on their own arm and 5.0 mm when they watched video clips

AI

Watching Your Skin React to a Prick Makes It Worse, Study Finds

A trio of controlled experiments shows that directing attention inward during a histamine skin test produces noticeably smaller welts than distraction does, suggesting the mind influences local immune responses in real time.