Global copper smelters are struggling to compete with rivals in China, which have rapidly built out their fleet of the facilities and control about half of copper smelting capacity worldwide ...

Via Metal Miner Throughout 2024, China worked to control its rapidly growing copper ... it’s a slowdown rather than a complete halt to copper smelting. China currently leads the world in refined ...

Oilfield services major Halliburton Co. and Sekal AS said they have delivered the world’s first automated on-bottom drilling ...

smelting and separating as well as monitoring and enforcement. The rules are the latest in a series of attempts to bring the globally critical sector under tighter state control. China already ...

Eleven ministries signed an order last week to limit capacity in the world’s biggest copper industry, by tying expansions to whether companies also control enough ore supply to feed their smelters. As ...

Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos, released its "most powerful" large-language model on Monday. The model is particularly strong with coding and graduate-level reasoning compared to ...

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

Cognitive control is the process by which goals or plans influence behaviour. Also called executive control, this process can inhibit automatic responses and influence working memory. Cognitive ...

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