Panama is considering reopening First Quantum Minerals’ Cobre Panama copper mine — but only long enough to fund its eventual closure — dealing a major blow to one of Canada’s largest miners and adding pressure to an already tight global copper supply.
Plus, OpenAI is facing a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over its agents’ rogue cyberattack on Hugging Face, a case that could help determine who is legally responsible when autonomous AI systems break the law or cause harm.
And in The Lab a new global study finds that infections caused 12% of all new cancer cases in 2024, highlighting how vaccines, treatment, and earlier screening could prevent hundreds of thousands of cases.