Yearly Archives: 2025

Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

[ad_1] On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to lead the NASA, the nation’s space agency, months after withdrawing the nomination. The reversal comes after weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed at …

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Brazil’s Moment to Lead on Climate Finance and Action

[ad_1] Conference participants offer up implementation goals. Thirty-three years after the Rio Eco 1992 Summit that laid the ground for the first Conference of Parties (COP)—the most important decision-making body within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—the 30th summit is about to return to Brazil between November 10-21. …

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Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing

[ad_1] Amazon has told Perplexity to get its agentic browser out of its online store, the companies both confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After warning Perplexity multiple times that Comet, its AI-powered shopping assistant, was violating Amazon’s terms of service by not identifying itself as an agent, the e-commerce giant sent …

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Armenia Emerges as South Caucasus Growth & Investment Leader

[ad_1] Thawing relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey are creating opportunities for Armenia to expand its economy and emerge as a regional investment hub. The South Caucasus has hardly seemed an ideal place for investment in recent years. Azerbaijan’s successful military campaign to gain control over the ethnic Armenian-controlled region of …

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Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics

[ad_1] Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics. The new effort will be focused around using “industrial AI to reshape how physical world businesses operate and leverage Rivian operations data as the foundation for a robotics data flywheel,” according …

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