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Canada helped land a global agreement to protect nature in 2022. A new assessment shows how successful it's been.
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Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has decided to cancel the release of its latest agentic model Astra 6.1 because it did not meet safety standards. Rival AI firm Anthropic, meanwhile, is dedicating a large majority of its IPO prospectus to laying out the risk factors associated with AI, according to Reuters. Also in this edition: Russia adds another layer of secrecy to its energy sector and NASA reboots Boeing's struggling Starliner rocket programme.
Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.
Shares of Akeso surged after British drug maker AstraZeneca moved to advance the Chinese biotech firm’s flagship cancer drug, while a new deal from US giant Merck further underscored the sector’s global momentum amid easing fears of US curbs. AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced a US$2 billion equity investment in Florida-headquartered Summit Therapeutics, which holds the exclusive rights to develop and commercialise Akeso’s immunotherapy drug ivonescimab outside China. Summit and AstraZeneca would...
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual is expected to appear before the
Armageddon is what will happen when billionaires, or even trillionaires, are given free rein. Could this be the final outcome of late-stage American capitalism and democracy? Imagine a human-extinction event: a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, a new world war or runaway climate change. You likely already have a fair idea of where the safest places on earth and beyond are, if you have been following the ultra-wealthy individuals from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. They are building...
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
The family of 11-year-old Johnny Kiyawasew, who never came home from St. Francis Xavier residential school, spent decades searching for answers. Now, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the University of Alberta say they're doing extensive research to uncover the stories of other children like Johnny who went to residential school but never made it home.
Google has challenged EU orders requiring it to share anonymised Search data with rivals and open certain Android features to competitors. The company warns of privacy and security risks, while EU regulators say safeguards are in place under the Digital Markets Act.
A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client secret, the authorization code, and the PKCE proof key to a token endpoint the attacker controlled. The fix is in versions 1.30.0 and
Sam Altman-led OpenAI has apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, acknowledging shortcomings in its handling of the incident and pledging to take accountability and “rebuild trust with the Australian people.”
OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "marks a rare case of a major AI developer ditching a new release because of safety concerns," the news publication said.
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