Victoria Beard, a professor of city and regional planning and director of the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, comments the growing threat of water shortages in cities around the world.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology says birds striking buildings is a primary source of bird population declines and should be addressed.

New York City

New York State

Lab of Ornithology

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Jason Londo, associate professor of fruit crop physiology and climate adaptation, says so far, the mild winter has been okay for fruit crops, but things can change quickly with one extreme weather event.

New York State

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Google is pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be creating inaccurate historical images. 

Computing & Information Sciences

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Reddit has reportedly struck a deal to provide its content for the purpose of training Google’s artificial intelligence models. Charging for data access was a flash point for protests last year.

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The Biden administration is wading into the debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open source” or closed. Tech companies are divided on how open to make AI models.

Cornell Tech

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The U.S. has informed Congress about Russian advances on a new, space-based nuclear weapon which it claims is designed to threaten America’s extensive satellite network.

Engineering

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Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology who studies social inequality with a focus on religion. He says that legalizing same-sex marriage in Greece would show other Eastern Orthodox Christians that providing rights does not undermine culture and values.

International

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Advertisers on X will soon be able to run ads next to a curated list of premium content creators.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Economics and Business

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Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the United Nation's first-ever report on the state of migratory species.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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