The High Cost of Quick Answers: The Environmental Toll of Training LLMs

Behind every prompt lies a hidden, energy-intensive footprint that tech companies are racing to offset. In a matter of seconds, Large Language Models (LLMs) can draft essays, write complex computer code, summarize dense academic papers, and converse like humans. They have revolutionized productivity and creativity, making instant knowledge a ubiquitous utility. However, this digital magic […]
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Who Owns the Output? The Copyright Crisis Threatening the AI Revolution

As generative artificial intelligence reshapes industries, a foundational legal question remains violently unresolved: If an algorithm creates it, who owns it? We are living through the most explosive technological gold rush since the dawn of the internet. With a simple text prompt, users can now generate photorealistic art, draft complex legal contracts, compose symphonies, and […]
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AI reveals how a warming climate will intensify NZ’s most extreme downpours

The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking “one-in-100-year” disasters communities have usually only seen once. But understanding how these rare events could change in the future is hard. With few examples in historical records, it is difficult to estimate how severe they could become and how outcomes might vary across possible futures. Recent research […]
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