Compute, capital and climate this week. Anthropic reported its first-ever positive operating income on $11.5bn of quarterly revenue. A record-low Danube forced Romania to shut down its only nuclear power plant. And fusion start-ups collectively passed $7.1bn in funding, from investors who, by their own admission, are betting on AI’s growing power demand as much…

In March 2024, a satellite roughly the size of a washing machine was launched into orbit with one job: to see something invisible. MethaneSAT was built to detect plumes of methane escaping from oil and gas infrastructure — leaks that had been quietly warming the planet for decades because nobody was measuring them properly. The…