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      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581926001941?dgcid=rss_sd_all",
      "title": "Effects of Environmental Perception and Planned Maneuver Visualization on Takeover Performance in Silent Failure Scenarios",
      "summary": "Publication date: Available online 15 August 2026 Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Author(s): Song Yan, Haichao Liu, Jiaohao Zhang, Jiyao Wang, Jun Ma, Dengbo He",
      "authors": null,
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T20:58:20.399Z",
      "source": "International Journal of Human-Computer Studies",
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      "id": 20193,
      "url": "https://the-decoder.com/investor-pressure-forces-nvidia-to-shrink-its-openai-bet-just-as-anthropics-numbers-defy-bubble-warnings",
      "title": "Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings",
      "summary": "Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI bubble debate with revenue that jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion in a single quarter. The article Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings appeared first on The Decoder .",
      "authors": "Matthias Bastian",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T15:41:02.000Z",
      "source": "The Decoder",
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      "id": 20188,
      "url": "https://thenewstack.io/new-tenant-is-change",
      "title": "Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.",
      "summary": "Multi-tenancy has moved in one direction for 60 years: the tenant keeps getting smaller. Mainframe time-sharing carved a single machine The post Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts. appeared first on The New Stack .",
      "authors": "Arjun Iyer",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T14:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The New Stack AI",
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      "id": 20195,
      "url": "https://the-decoder.com/world-labs-turns-one-real-world-robot-task-into-thousands-of-simulated-variations-for-training",
      "title": "World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training",
      "summary": "World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world task, the system generates thousands of controlled variations. The trained models then ran for one hour each on five different robot platforms without human intervention. How well the results hold up in more complex everyday situations remains to be seen. The article World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thou",
      "authors": "Jonathan Kemper",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T07:30:48.000Z",
      "source": "The Decoder",
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      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X26002915?dgcid=rss_sd_all",
      "title": "High-technology manufacturing and environment nexus: Insights from Spanish manufacturing titans",
      "summary": "Publication date: Available online 13 August 2026 Source: Technology in Society Author(s): Abdullah Emre Caglar, Mustafa Naimoğlu, Mehmet Mert",
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      "category": "research",
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      "published_at": "2026-08-15T05:10:17.122Z",
      "source": "Technology in Society",
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      "title": "Intelligent remote sensing and governmental environmental governance: A supply-side information capability perspective",
      "summary": "Publication date: November 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 232 Author(s): Yiwa Xu, Songsong Li, Weiqian Zhang",
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      "category": "research",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T05:10:17.122Z",
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      "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/388d68e4-ca88-48dd-aad8-fa5976a5452a?syn-25a6b1a6=1",
      "title": "Smoke, social media and the shame of the perfect holiday shot",
      "summary": "How an environmental disaster reframed the idea of a curated experience",
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      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T04:00:23.000Z",
      "source": "Financial Times Technology (headlines)",
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      "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/india-sets-draft-rules-to-open-nuclear-power-to-private-firms",
      "title": "India Sets Draft Rules to Open Nuclear Power to Private Firms",
      "summary": "India moved a step closer to opening its nuclear power sector to private investment, with the Department of Atomic Energy issuing draft rules to implement legislation that ends decades of state ...",
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      "topics": "regulation,environment,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T03:49:00.000Z",
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      "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/hungary-sinks-barges-to-lift-danube-near-its-nuclear-plant",
      "title": "Hungary Sinks Barges to Lift Danube Near Its Nuclear Plant",
      "summary": "The Danube’s water level has begun rising near Hungary’s sole nuclear plant after authorities started sinking two barges to help keep the facility operating and avoid a costly full shutdown.",
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      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T02:50:00.000Z",
      "source": "Bloomberg Technology",
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      "id": 19617,
      "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/08/tech-bills-week-leveraging-ai-environmental-evaluations-crafting-new-report-chinas-ai-stack-ecosystem-and-limiting-adversarial-access-national-labs/415441",
      "title": "Tech Bills of the Week: Leveraging AI for environmental evaluations; crafting a report on China’s AI ecosystem; and more",
      "summary": "Recently proposals look, in part, to deploy artificial intelligence solutions to prevent natural disasters from impeding U.S. military operations and evaluate China’s AI chip manufacturing sector.",
      "authors": "Alexandra Kelley and Edward Graham",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T22:31:00.000Z",
      "source": "NextGov/FCW",
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      "id": 19579,
      "url": "https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/14/the-climate-issue-newsletter-the-surprising-effects-of-europes-heatwaves",
      "title": "The Climate Issue newsletter: The surprising effects of Europe’s heatwaves",
      "summary": "Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how an unusually hot, dry summer is testing the continent’s infrastructure",
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      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T20:28:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Economist Science and Technology (headlines)",
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      "id": 19593,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-project-jupiter-green-chile-pipeline-delay",
      "title": "Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year",
      "summary": "The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions. The pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s largest […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T20:14:35.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
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      "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/08/14/climate-change-wildfire-air-pollution-risks",
      "title": "What Wildfire Smoke Reveals About How We Respond to Climate Risk",
      "summary": "Even if we know the potential harm, we sometimes choose the riskier action.",
      "authors": "Justin Worland",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T19:35:38.000Z",
      "source": "Time Tech",
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      "id": 19568,
      "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6030328-epa-chemical-approval-lawsuit",
      "title": "EPA sued for approving semiconductor chemicals that may pose health risks",
      "summary": "Environmental and community groups sued the Trump administration on Friday over its approval of two chemicals for use in semiconductors despite posing health risks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved the two unnamed chemicals for use in the semiconductor industry even though it also found potential risks to workers and the general public. The...",
      "authors": "Rachel Frazin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T17:23:42.000Z",
      "source": "The Hill Technology",
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      "id": 19668,
      "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/08/14/germany-offered-adekoyejo-kuye-future-chose-nigeria",
      "title": "Germany offered Adekoyejo Kuye a future. He chose Nigeria.",
      "summary": "Kuye is the founder of KAMIM Technologies, a Nigerian climate-tech company that builds solar-powered cold storage infrastructure and connects farmers to markets.",
      "authors": "Adonijah Ndege",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T15:48:37.000Z",
      "source": "TechCabal (Africa)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19668"
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      "id": 19653,
      "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/the-science-of-reading-and-teaching-english-learners-to-read-are-not-incompatible",
      "title": "Opinion: The Science of Reading and Teaching English Learners to Read Are Not Incompatible",
      "summary": "For all the noise and attention and — laudable — political energy behind it, the science of reading is not a thing. Or, rather, it is not a thing that schools can implement. The science of reading is a series of facts that, in combination, form a field consensus about how children best learn to […]",
      "authors": "Conor P. Williams",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T10:30:00.000Z",
      "source": "The 74 (education AI)",
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      "id": 19588,
      "url": "https://theconversation.com/the-death-of-dark-energy-is-a-false-alarm-the-universe-is-still-accelerating-285748",
      "title": "The death of dark energy is a false alarm – the universe is still accelerating",
      "summary": "A recent paper claimed that dark energy might not exist. But new research suggests this conclusion was premature.",
      "authors": "Phil Wiseman, Ernest Rutherford Fellow, University of Southampton, Mark Sullivan, Professor, University of Southampton",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T10:06:51.000Z",
      "source": "The Conversation UK Technology",
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      "id": 19647,
      "url": "https://www.heise.de/news/Deutschlands-groesste-Lithiumressource-Pilotprojekt-mit-Adsorptionstechnik-11413776.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag",
      "title": "Lithium für 500.000 E-Autos jährlich: Altmark-Projekt geht in nächste Pilotphase",
      "summary": "Neptune Energy will Lithium aus 4000 Metern Tiefe gewinnen. In Sachsen-Anhalt läuft jetzt eine weitere Pilotphase mit den Partnern Fraunhofer IEG und Evonik.",
      "authors": "Florian Pillau",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T07:43:00.000Z",
      "source": "Heise Online (DE)",
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      "id": 19619,
      "url": "https://warontherocks.com/cheap-drones-dry-taps-the-iran-war-opens-a-new-era-of-water-infrastructure-risk",
      "title": "Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk",
      "summary": "Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical infrastructure would be struck. Iranian forces’ operational history over the past six months confirmed the threat’s credibility.Kuwait first reported damage near a desalination plant early in Operation Epic Fury, when debris from an interce",
      "authors": "Gabriel Collins",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T07:30:30.000Z",
      "source": "War on the Rocks",
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    {
      "id": 19109,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12350",
      "title": "From Caveman to Expert Analyst: Energy Consumption of Variable LLM Tasks",
      "summary": "arXiv:2608.12350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The energy demand growth and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) have generated substantial interest in supplying sufficient low-cost electricity for AI-driven data center development. Research on the ability of demand-side management to address these challenges has been more limited. Shifting the amount or timing of demand from retail, corporate, and other organizational behaviors is a plausible option but only if changes in dema",
      "authors": "Diego Manya, Ethan I. Thorpe, Ji Zhang, Myranda Shirk, Jiamian He, Angel Hsu, Michael P. Vandenbergh",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T04:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.CY",
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      "id": 19126,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12363",
      "title": "EU-ETS under attack? The impact of carbon price suppression on the decarbonization of the power sector",
      "summary": "arXiv:2608.12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification. A notable example is Italy's 2026 Decreto Bollette package, which proposes to remove the carbon price equivalent from the bids of certain gas-driven power plants to wholesale electricity markets, among other provisions. We use this as a case study to assess the long-term impli",
      "authors": "Javier Gonzalez-Ruiz, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Alice Di Bella, Paolo Mastropietro, Jose Pablo Chavez-Avila, Massimo Tavoni",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T04:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.CY",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19126"
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      "id": 19421,
      "url": "https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/14/chadian-environmental-activist-hindou-oumarou-ai-governance-must-respect-indigenous-peoples",
      "title": "Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou: ‘AI governance must respect Indigenous peoples’",
      "summary": "How AI expansion may affect environments, water and biodiversity, or the rights of communities whose territories and knowledge are being encroached upon",
      "authors": "GV Sub-Saharan Africa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T03:58:48.000Z",
      "source": "Global Voices (tech)",
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      "id": 19691,
      "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/us-revives-pressure-on-europe-to-relax-its-corporate-esg-rules",
      "title": "US Ready to ‘Take Any Actions Necessary’ to Fight EU ESG Rules",
      "summary": "America’s ambassador to the European Union said Brussels needs to relax corporate rules designed to protect the environment and human rights, linking the US’s demands to a trade agreement struck last ...",
      "authors": null,
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T03:17:00.000Z",
      "source": "Bloomberg Technology",
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      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-026-11640-4",
      "title": "Reinforcement Learning and Model-based Planning in Practice: A Survey of Algorithmic Rationale and Domain Applications",
      "summary": "Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a foundational framework in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables agents to acquire optimal decision-making strategies through interactions with their environments. Building on principles of trial-and-error learning, RL adapts dynamically by leveraging feedback in the form of rewards or penalties. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of RL, its integration with Deep Learning into Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and the emerging field of model-based pla",
      "authors": null,
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "Artificial Intelligence Review",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19545"
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    {
      "id": 19556,
      "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2026.1800407",
      "title": "LATTICE: a governance-first architecture for authorized autonomous AI operations",
      "summary": "Deploying autonomous AI agents in high-consequence operational environments requires organizational authorization, yet few frameworks provide end-to-end, testable governance mechanisms suitable for such authorization decisions. This paper introduces LATTICE (Layered Agentic Triad Topology for Intelligent Coordinated Execution), a governance-first architecture that reframes the authorization question from “do we trust this AI?” to “do we trust this architecture?” The latter question is answerable",
      "authors": "Elias Calboreanu",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19556"
    },
    {
      "id": 19569,
      "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6028921-house-commerce-committee-democrat-investigates-airlines",
      "title": "Top Commerce Committee Democrat presses airlines over AI ‘surveillance pricing’",
      "summary": "A top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is pressing major U.S. airlines over whether they use artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on travelers’ personal information, raising concerns that it determines what fares consumers see. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent...",
      "authors": "Finya Swai",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T22:24:59.000Z",
      "source": "The Hill Technology",
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    },
    {
      "id": 19297,
      "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2236717/cloud-storage-great-until-vendor-goes-out-of-business-nine-pbs",
      "title": "Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business",
      "summary": "A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive.",
      "authors": "staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell)",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T22:04:16.000Z",
      "source": "Engadget AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19297"
    },
    {
      "id": 19325,
      "url": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com/texas-governor-halts-data-center-grid-connections-pending-audit",
      "title": "Texas Governor Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Audit",
      "summary": "The data center interconnection freeze is separate from the state's halting the disbursements of billions in broadband funding.",
      "authors": "Jericho Casper",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "transparency,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T21:07:02.000Z",
      "source": "Broadband Breakfast",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19325"
    },
    {
      "id": 19299,
      "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2236616/hosting-provider-namecheap-is-down-after-data-center-cooling-failure",
      "title": "Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure",
      "summary": "Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure.",
      "authors": "staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko)",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T20:01:57.000Z",
      "source": "Engadget AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19299"
    },
    {
      "id": 19294,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ultium-cells-ohio-battery-restart-gm-lg",
      "title": "GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months",
      "summary": "Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T17:58:49.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19294"
    },
    {
      "id": 19262,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/08/13/the-data-center-chessboard-has-no-pause-button",
      "title": "The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button",
      "summary": "The whole country ostensibly wants America to win the artificial intelligence (AI) race. A striking number, however, would prefer someone else’s town to host the data centers, power plants, transmission lines, and cooling systems required to run it. Adam Smith knew the type. In “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” he warned against the “man of ... The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button The post The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Jeffrey E. Depp",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T17:53:20.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19262"
    },
    {
      "id": 19327,
      "url": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com/watch-out-for-pole-disputes-environmental-permits-experts-say",
      "title": "Watch Out for Pole Disputes, Environmental Permits, Experts say",
      "summary": "One engineer suggested outside consultants to support local permitting agencies",
      "authors": "Jake Neenan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T17:37:59.000Z",
      "source": "Broadband Breakfast",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19327"
    },
    {
      "id": 19161,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13456v1",
      "title": "A Unifying Perspective on Causal World Models: From Observations to Representations to Structure",
      "summary": "World Models (WM) are increasingly seen as a foundation for intelligent agents that can predict, plan, and act beyond their training distribution. In this paper, we study WMs from a causal perspective across multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from perceptual observations to building a conceptual representation of the structure governing the environment dynamics. We argue that useful WMs must go beyond generative capabilities alone: they should also capture entity properties, entity-to-entit",
      "authors": "Avinash Kori, Fabrizio Russo",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:40:35.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19161"
    },
    {
      "id": 19441,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13420v1",
      "title": "Enhancing Virtual Agents through SLMs and Edge-Computing: An Exploratory Evaluation of Think and Memory Processes",
      "summary": "Embodied intelligent virtual agents are expected to operate as persistent, adaptive, and context-aware entities within complex virtual and Metaverse worlds. However, implementing cognitively capable agents in such environments is conceptually and technologically challenging. Among a range of blueprints and development approaches, the Cognitive Embodied Agent Architecture (CEAA) has been developed as an implementation-oriented framework for architecting components of perception, memory, reasoning",
      "authors": "Aimilios Hadjiliasi, Louis Nisiotis",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:12:52.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19441"
    },
    {
      "id": 19165,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13394v1",
      "title": "Heterogeneity-Aware Belief Synchronization for Semantic Communication in AI-Native 6G Networks",
      "summary": "6G networks will not be serving as communication infrastructures only; rather, they are expected to evolve into intelligent systems, where thousands of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents are interconnected. The agents are deployed across a wide range of platforms including low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, high-altitude platforms (HAPs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), edge servers, and terrestrial devices. These agents continuously observe their environment and exchange information",
      "authors": "Muhammad Hannan Akram, Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Wassi Haider Kabir, Haejoon Jung, Kapal Dev, Syed Ali Hassan",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T15:53:15.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19165"
    },
    {
      "id": 19401,
      "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/08/13/mr-eazis-choplife-moves-to-digital-free-zone-itana",
      "title": "Mr Eazi’s Choplife is the latest startup to move to digital free zone Itana",
      "summary": "The move primarily changes Choplife’s corporate and regulatory base, with the company citing Itana’s regulatory environment and its promise of simpler cross-border operations as key reasons for the decision.",
      "authors": "Opeyemi Kareem",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T14:40:58.000Z",
      "source": "TechCabal (Africa)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19401"
    },
    {
      "id": 19394,
      "url": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/opinion-deprofessionalization-could-foster-toxic-work-environments-on-small-teams",
      "title": "Opinion: Deprofessionalization could foster toxic work environments on small teams",
      "summary": "As smaller teams see bigger success, how will the game industry protect professional standards of conduct?",
      "authors": "Bryant Francis",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T13:36:46.000Z",
      "source": "Game Developer (AI)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19394"
    },
    {
      "id": 19474,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13190v1",
      "title": "ProME: Prototype-Margin Environments with Repair-Aware Selection for Group-Robust Learning",
      "summary": "Group-robust learning is crucial for maintaining accuracy on rare subpopulations when training-group labels are unavailable. However, existing methods often infer environments from a separate reference model and select representations before fitting the classifier used at deployment, leaving both decisions misaligned with the deployed predictor. In this work, we formulate group robustness without training-group labels as the endogenous environments with repair-aware selection (ERAS) problem, and",
      "authors": "Qianqian Wang, Yunshan Li, Dawei Huang, Wenwu Gong, Lili Yang",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T12:57:41.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.LG",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19474"
    },
    {
      "id": 19248,
      "url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-water-management-is-a-strategic-concern",
      "title": "Why Water Management Is a Strategic Concern",
      "summary": "Dante Terzigni/theispot.com We live on a blue planet where water appears to be plentiful. But there are strong warning signs indicating that our reliance on the fresh water we perceive to be abundant will need to change. Although water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, only 0.5% of it is effectively usable. Further, global water […]",
      "authors": "Frederik Dahlmann, Veronica H. Villena, and Jens K. Roehrich. Frederik Dahlmann is an associate professor of strategy and sustainability at Warwick Business School. Veronica H. Villena is the Loui Olivas Chair in Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Jens K. Roehrich is a professor of supply chain innovation at the University of Bath School of Management.",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T11:00:28.000Z",
      "source": "MIT Sloan Management Review AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19248"
    },
    {
      "id": 19292,
      "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/30498761-99cf-46d9-8f03-a27c9618fe51",
      "title": "Can Roxen’s ‘electric watercraft’ challenge the Jet Ski?",
      "summary": "Plus four other gadgets that do their bit for the environment",
      "authors": null,
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T10:00:04.000Z",
      "source": "Financial Times Technology (headlines)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19292"
    },
    {
      "id": 19206,
      "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91589344/the-worlds-largest-biological-datacenter-could-help-make-animal-testing-obsolete?position=4&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=08142026",
      "title": "The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete",
      "summary": "Vivodyne’s AI experiments on lab-grown human tissue could soon replace the need to test drugs on mice or dogs—and the approach has the potential to create drugs that work better.",
      "authors": "Adele Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment,biotech",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T09:11:00.000Z",
      "source": "Fast Company",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19206"
    },
    {
      "id": 19264,
      "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91589344/the-worlds-largest-biological-datacenter-could-help-make-animal-testing-obsolete?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss",
      "title": "The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete",
      "summary": "There’s a big flaw in the way that drug companies develop and test medicines today: What works in a mouse often doesn’t work in a human. For decades, the industry has relied on animal testing. But in a laboratory south of San Francisco, a startup called Vivodyne is scaling up a different approach. Inside wardrobe-size mini labs, robots grow human tissue and run thousands of AI -designed experiments that could better predict how well a new drug will work—and whether it will be safe. [Image: Vivod",
      "authors": "Adele Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare,agents-autonomy,environment,biotech",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T09:11:00.000Z",
      "source": "Fast Company Tech",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19264"
    },
    {
      "id": 19521,
      "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91589344/the-worlds-largest-biological-datacenter-could-help-make-animal-testing-obsolete?position=10&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=08152026",
      "title": "The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete",
      "summary": "Vivodyne’s AI experiments on lab-grown human tissue could soon replace the need to test drugs on mice or dogs—and the approach has the potential to create drugs that work better.",
      "authors": "Adele Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment,biotech",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T09:11:00.000Z",
      "source": "Fast Company",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19521"
    },
    {
      "id": 19214,
      "url": "https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/08/13/smartesq-grows-funds-skills-critiques-kirkland-ai-move",
      "title": "SmartEsq Grows Funds Skills, Critiques Kirkland AI Move",
      "summary": "New York-based SmartEsq has rolled out multiple new capabilities designed to help private funds teams manage the legal lifecycle ‘in one connected environment’. The company ...",
      "authors": "artificiallawyer",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T08:21:15.000Z",
      "source": "Artificial Lawyer",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19214"
    },
    {
      "id": 19432,
      "url": "https://next.ink/brief-article/la-prefecture-de-seine-et-marne-autorise-linstallation-de-campus-ia-a-fouju",
      "title": "☕️ La préfecture de Seine-et-Marne autorise l’installation de Campus IA à Fouju",
      "summary": "C’est fait. Sans grande surprise, le plus grand projet de data center de France, Campus IA, a obtenu le 29 juillet l’autorisation préfectorale de s’installer à Fouju, à 40 km au Sud-Est de Paris. Après une consultation publique organisée auprès de la population à l’automne, puis une enquête publique à l’issue de laquelle les trois […]",
      "authors": "Mathilde Saliou",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T06:42:00.000Z",
      "source": "Next (FR, ex-INpact)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19432"
    },
    {
      "id": 19400,
      "url": "https://technode.com/2026/08/13/alibaba-cloud-launches-qwen-ai-arena-for-real-world-agent-testing",
      "title": "Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen AI Arena for Real-World Agent Testing",
      "summary": "Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents. The platform creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments and evaluation tools to submit and test agent solutions. Its first challenge focuses on cross-border e-commerce. Participants must generate product listings for the US, […]",
      "authors": "TechNode Feed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T05:36:47.000Z",
      "source": "TechNode (CN)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19400"
    },
    {
      "id": 18867,
      "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/13/prime-infra-guillaume-lucci-philippines-energy-crisis",
      "title": "The Philippines needs ‘power of all sorts’ to build energy security following a nationwide crisis, says Prime Infra CEO Guillaume Lucci",
      "summary": "“What we need is more energy of all sorts, not only more renewable energy,” Lucci tells Fortune at the firm’s headquarters in Pasay City, Manila.",
      "authors": "Angelica Ang",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:30:00.000Z",
      "source": "Fortune AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18867"
    },
    {
      "id": 18718,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11830",
      "title": "Quantifying the Relationship Between Clinical Safety and Environmental Impact in Therapeutic LLMs",
      "summary": "arXiv:2608.11830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health contexts raises questions about the relationship between clinical safety and environmental cost. In this paper, we examine this relationship by combining K-Bench clinical safety scores with EcoLogits life-cycle assessment estimates across 47 supported model configurations. We evaluate model performance and environmental impact across four dimensions: energy use, carbon emissions, water",
      "authors": "Alireza A. Safaei, Laura M. Vowels, Matthew J. Vowels, Apoorv Jha, Shekoufeh Rahimi",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "healthcare,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.CY",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18718"
    },
    {
      "id": 18728,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11923",
      "title": "Twitter and disability activism: leadership and relevant topics in the online conversation",
      "summary": "arXiv:2608.11923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The dissemination and viralization of information on social media has been widely studied from various perspectives, including that of digital activism. On the other hand, disability-related activism has conquered the online environment, thus obtaining a reach that goes beyond the offline space and generating dialogue in the digital sphere. This article analyses the conversation generated on Twitter, taking as a sample all the tweets with the #di",
      "authors": "Terese Mendiguren-Galdospin, Koldobika Meso-Ayerdi, Jes\\'us \\'Angel P\\'erez-Dasilva, Mar\\'ia Ganzabal-Learreta, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Sim\\'on Pe\\~na-Fern\\'andez",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.CY",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18728"
    },
    {
      "id": 19453,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12759v1",
      "title": "NavSight in the Wild: Understanding Real-World Use of a Mobile Augmented Reality Application for People with Low Vision in Outdoor Navigation",
      "summary": "The ability to navigate outdoors safely and independently is crucial yet challenging for people with low vision (PLV). While various augmented reality (AR) systems for low vision have been designed and evaluated in ideal lab environments, no research has investigated their real-world feasibility and challenges. We present NavSight, a mobile AR application that assists PLV in outdoor navigation by recognizing important outdoor objects (e.g., curb, vehicle) and rendering real-time visual augmentat",
      "authors": "Yuheng Wu, Kexin Zhang, Ben Kosa, Ru Wang, Sanbrita Mondal, Yuhang Zhao",
      "category": "research",
      "topics": "environment,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T03:10:49.000Z",
      "source": "arXiv cs.HC",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19453"
    }
  ],
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}