20+ hour, 45+ min ago   (997+ words) Anthropic PBC boss joined the chorus of current and former AI researchers calling on the industry to slow down and saying that the effort requires industry and global coordination President Donald Trump downplayed the growing alarm over risks from artificial…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (542+ words) When scientists and researchers are told they can agree with EDI or lose their funding, that's compelled speech Last week, a report by Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Eric Kaufmann and co-authors detailed the high cost of the equity, diversity and…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1241+ words) High-ranking officials from OpenAI, Anthropic and other industry players are worried about the rapid acceleration of AI agents learning to teach themselves An artificial intelligence researcher for California-based Anthropic who quit this week offered ill portents that the company and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (778+ words) Tech giant says move follows 'long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country' Google has officially renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America on its Maps interface — at least for people using the app or…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (801+ words) Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler found 9,042,977 image files in unsecured cloud storage belonging to the company, in folders labelled faces and profiles. The images included adults, teenagers and children, he wrote in a report published by ExpressVPN. The site is offered…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (863+ words) Canadians should choose the techno-optimist route and embrace the future One of the most pressing questions facing the Canadian public right now is one that most people will have never been asked before, which is: are we techno-optimists? While it’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (870+ words) Chinese robot dogs on sale in Canada still cannot do much without a person driving them. Security researchers have found flaws that could let someone else take control. In Beijing this week, organizers say more than 2,000 humanoid robots are competing…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (99+ words) National Post World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing The second World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing, bringing together over 2,000 robots from 16 countries showcasing advances in humanoid robotics. The five-day event features over 1,000 competitions, blending athletic sports, artistic performances,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (861+ words) A crocodile basks in the sunshine on the roof of a submerged conference hall at a holiday resort in central Kenya, in a visible sign of how rising lake waters are endangering thousands of families and local businesses. Lake Baringo…...