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Professor Robert Metcalfe, chief economist at Centre for Net Zero and Professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, believes that we need to effectively manage that additional demand from EV charging, or risk putting further strain on the grid, which consumers would bear the brunt of.

"AI-managed EV charging can reshape electricity demand at scale, with considerable benefits for consumers and the grid," writes Robert Metcalfe.

Columbia University professor Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: “With the Republicans in the 2024 presidential election doing better than in the past in blue states which they lost, we have to see races in these states for governor or the Senate as potentially competitive."

Bianna Golodryga speaks with Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal about the beginning of the Israeli army's ground incursion into Gaza City.

“You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day,” says Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser who now runs Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Rumela Sen, faculty director of the master’s in international affairs programme at Columbia University, told Al Jazeera that if one looks beyond the visuals of rage emerging from these countries’ protests, “there is a very democratic, sincere aspiration for political inclusion, economic justice, and holding their elected representatives accountable”.

Rumela Sen, a South Asia expert at Columbia University, said it was "worrying" to see "an unprecedented glorification of the army as a voice of sanity and stability".

Anya Schiffrin says the battle for compensation is not over. She noted that some lawmakers are debating inserting a ” must-carry” dispositive in future bargaining laws to prevent social media from removing news content to avoid regulation.