Anthropic has announced that the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Dr. Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis, to Anthropic’s Board of Directors. As a physician-scientist leading a major innovative medicines company, Narasimhan brings extensive experience in navigating highly regulated industries and overseeing the approval of over 35 novel medicines…
A significant breakthrough in climate resilience is expanding life-saving infrastructure to the world’s most vulnerable urban centers. According to a technical update from Google Research, the rollout of new flash flood predictions on the Flood Hub platform now provides up to 24 hours of advance notice for rapid-onset events. This Google-led initiative specifically targets urban areas with population densities exceeding 100 people per square kilometer, addressing a critical “warning gap” where developing nations in the Global South previously lacked the physical sensors and hydrological maps necessary for traditional forecasting…
