Новости за 08.01.2024

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 04, 2024
Explaining the behavior of trained neural networks remains a compelling puzzle, especially as these models grow in size and sophistication. Like other scientific challenges throughout history, reverse-engineering how artificial intelligence systems work requires a substantial amount of experimentation: making hypotheses, intervening on behavior, and even dissecting large networks to examine indi

New York (AFP) Jan 4, 2024
US energy company APA Corporation has agreed to buy competitor Callon Petroleum in a transaction valued around $4.5 billion including debt, the firms announced Thursday, marking the latest deal in the sector. APA will acquire Callon in an all-stock deal, where each share of Callon is exchanged for 1.0425 shares of APA stock, worth $38.31. This is nearly a 14 percent premium over Callon's

Paris (AFP) Jan 4, 2024
French energy giant TotalEnergies said Thursday it had launched a review of its land acquisition practices for controversial $10-billion projects in Uganda and Tanzania slammed by environmentalists. TotalEnergies is pushing ahead with its Tilenga drilling project in Uganda and the 1,443-kilometre (897-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to transport it to the coast in Tanzania in t

London (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
A former UK energy minister announced on Friday that he will resign as a lawmaker over contentious oil and gas legislation being pursued by the ruling Conservatives. In an embarrassing setback for embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, MP Chris Skidmore also said he will quit the Conservative parliamentary party. He explained he could no longer "support a government that is committed to a

Baku (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Global climate talks will be led for the second year in a row by a man with ties to the oil industry, after Azerbaijan named a minister to preside over the November COP29 meeting. Mukhtar Babayev, currently minister for ecology and natural resources and formerly an executive at state oil company SOCAR, "has been named president-designate for the 29th session of the conference of the parties"

Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
More than 40,000 people suspected of taking part in cyber scams in Myanmar were handed over to China last year, Beijing state media said Friday. Online fraud compounds have flourished in Myanmar's borderlands, staffed by citizens from China and other countries who are often trafficked and forced to work swindling their compatriots. The scams anger Beijing, a major ally of Myanmar's junta

Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million electric vehicles in China, the country's market regulator said Friday, marking another blow for the US firm days after it was surpassed in EV sales by China's BYD. The recall - sparked by the discovery of problems with assisted driving functions and door-locking systems - will be conducted through remote over-the-air (OTA) updates to the cars' soft

Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
China said Friday it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into brandy imported from the European Union, as commercial tensions flare between the two trading superpowers. The Ministry of Commerce said the probe followed a complaint filed in November by China's liquor association on behalf of the domestic brandy industry. It said the complaint included "the relevant evidence required

Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Chinese asset management giant Zhongzhi Enterprise Group has filed for bankruptcy and was unable to pay its debts, a Beijing court said on Friday. The development comes weeks after police opened an investigation into the group after the debt-ridden financial behemoth declared itself insolvent. According to a statement published by a Beijing court on WeChat, Zhongzhi applied for "bankrupt

Paris (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Google has begun limiting third-party cookies for some users of its Chrome web browser, a first step towards eventually abandoning the files that have raised privacy concerns. Google, which announced in 2020 that it planned to get rid of cookies, said fully eliminating third-party cookies could only happen with the approval of Britain's Competition and Markets Authority, which is looking at

London (AFP) Jan 7, 2024
Britain intends to become the first European country to produce an advanced uranium fuel that is currently commercially available only from Russia, the government announced Sunday. The UK government said it would invest GBP300 million ($382 million) building a high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) programme that would help "displace" Moscow from global energy markets. "We stood up to (Vl

Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2024
France is set to build eight new nuclear plants on top of six already announced, the energy minister has said, arguing more reactors are needed to hit carbon reduction targets. A draft law set to be presented soon recognises that "we will need nuclear power beyond the six first European Pressurised Reactors" (EPRs) announced by President Emmanuel Macron in early 2022, Agnes Pannier-Runacher

Madrid (AFP) Jan 4, 2024
Spain generated more than half of its electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power in 2023 in a "historic" record, the national power grid said Thursday. According to data from the Red Electrica Espanola (REE), the production of electricity from renewable sources reached nearly 135,000 GWh last year, the equivalent of 50.4 percent of the overall national energy mix. T

Berlin (AFP) Jan 4, 2024
German emissions were at their lowest point in around 70 years as Europe's largest economy managed to reduce its dependence on coal faster than expected, a study published Thursday showed. Europe's biggest economy emitted 673 million tonnes of the greenhouse gases last year, 9.8 percent lower than in 2022, according to the energy think tank Agora Energiewende. The figure was 46 percent l