In typical Meta fashion, the company’s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on the people in users’ lives.

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The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story, and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become, but also of the perils of getting an education in a virtual environment instead of a physical one.

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Bloomberg reports that between April and June, at least 45 data center projects worth nearly $68 billion were blocked or delayed. That’s on top of another 75 projects valued at roughly $130 billion that were disrupted during the first quarter of the year.

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A United Nations-backed scientific panel is sounding the alarm over AI agent safety, warning that current safeguards are "unravelling" as these systems grow more capable.

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"The number of implications that that province leaving the federation would have for every other province is just astounding," news.rgrichardson.ca/2026/09/y…

VANCOUVER — LNG Canada says it will go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion project at its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion will double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million tonnes a year.

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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027.

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As the US federal government rolls ahead with its controversial plans to deploy an AI air traffic control system across some of the nation’s busiest airports, one former air traffic controller is speaking out about the unprecedented risks involved.

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As a recently unsealed and unredacted motion in the ongoing legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft shows, top AI executives have admitted that training AI models required “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.”

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An OpenAI agent has gone "rogue" and "infiltrated" an Australian government website in what cyber-security experts are calling the first hack of its kind.

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Nearly 500 Polymarket US users were hit in late July by a fraud attack that did not require a password, a username, or a compromised phone.

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Fresh off the company’s 10% layoff, Meta is officially rolling out subscriptions for its apps in an effort to diversify its heavily ad-based revenue.

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Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat who represents the district containing Reagan National Airport, called for the immediate suspension of SMART after learning that “air traffic controllers were not consulted” and “were not trained on it before adoption at airports.”

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Microsoft is preparing to bring age verification directly into Windows 11, requiring users to prove how old they are through their Microsoft account before apps and websites will treat them as adults.

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Until now, the Economy Ministry had a say whenever a foreign company bought 25% or more of a French business; that threshold has now been cut to 10%.

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Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked legislation to create a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency, stalling an industry-backed effort to place new guardrails around digital assets after demanding more limits on President Donald Trump’s investments news.rgrichardson.ca/2026/09/s…

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Streaming boxes just got a lot more expensive across the board, and Google’s newest hardware isn’t spared either. The Google TV Streamer quietly jumped from $99 to $149, a steep 50% increase.
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The exposure is especially troubling given what ClarityCheck is designed to do. The service explicitly markets itself as a tool to identify strangers from photos and find their social media profiles in seconds.

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Starting with the 2027 software update, Apple Intelligence is set for a serious upgrade with broader access to its server-powered features. But there’s a catch. Apple plans to roll out usage limits across many of these tools to keep things fast and reliable for everyone.

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Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety.
Now, Altman is riding a wave of AI fearmongering in the US power grid.
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That partnership has borne a commercial featuring James and a slew of other sports stars seemingly in need of a paycheck despite immense career earnings. For James, the move to Polymarket comes as his deal with DraftKings expires.

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Google will enforce new memory limits on Android apps from February 2027; the reason is the RAM shortage created by the AI data centre boom. Apps that break them can be slowed, terminated, or buried in the Play Store. A second deadline follows in April.
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A researcher who spent three years building the systems behind some of the world's most powerful AI models has quit the industry entirely, warning that the companies racing to build ever-more capable AI "are gambling with our lives".

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When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two agents were involved. The truth is, the incident involved about 1,200 AI agents; 700 directly participated in the attack.

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Android 17 is closing a privacy loophole that has existed since the early days of mobile internet. Even when a connection is secured with HTTPS, the initial handshake between a phone and a website has always broadcast the destination domain as readable text.

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On paper, the company is registered with Canada’s financial intelligence agency and offers "fast and easy" global currency transfers and "convenient banking" with the click of a button.

In practice, however, it’s a shell company. Its website offers no option to open an account and provides no employee names, while phone calls go straight to voicemail and emails go unanswered.

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A Tiny BC Farming Town’s Fight Against Billionaire Speculators

A US company’s pursuit of land near Dunster has reignited calls for stiffer foreign ownership rules.

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Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, and carbon footprint unites voters across the political spectrum.
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Conversations with Claude that were intended to be private—some involving medical data and children’s phone numbers—were discovered in search engine results by Reddit users over the weekend.

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