Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary “AI Gone Rogue” with family or friends to help…
X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement
Over the past few years, X has released a number of features to make itself a friendlier hub for influencers. The latest effort to attract social media talent? Its own clipping tool. Clipping is the pivotal social media technique by which longer videos are spliced into TikTok-attention-span length “clips” and then strategically posted to engage…
B.C. remembers: Watch the 2026 Vancouver Remembrance Day ceremony – BC
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The 102nd consecutive Remembrance Day ceremony is set to take place on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The ceremony runs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and will be live-streamed above and on the Global BC YouTube page. Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui will host the special. 3:19 Honouring…
Meta FAIR Releases e-means: An Algorithm Beating k-means in 10x Fewer Epochs
Meta FAIR researchers have released e-means, a drop-in replacement for Lloyd’s k-means algorithm. The e-means clustering algorithm reaches the loss Lloyd’s k-means gets in 25 epochs in 1.4 to 2.6 epochs. It ships in FAISS 1.16.0 under faiss.contrib.e_means. For anyone building vector indexes, quantizers or data-curation pipelines, clustering is often the slowest offline step. e-means…
Critics slam Ford government appointment of York region chair as ‘conflict of interest’
The Ford government is facing political pushback after appointing Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca as the Chair of York Region, with another city mayor claiming the position creates a conflict of interest that could leave other municipalities with negative consequences. On Tuesday, the Progressive Conservative government said Del Duca would serve dual roles for the…
Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development
While established venture firms continue to attract capital, first-time fund managers are facing one of the toughest fundraising environments in years. But that didn’t stop Sahir Raoof, a former SignalFire investor and executive at two healthcare startups, from raising $27.5 million for his first solo VC fund. Raoof’s firm, Proximal Ventures, is betting that AI…
N.S. group apologizes for inviting convicted killer to speak at panel
A Nova Scotia organization that supports women and girls who are involved with the justice system is facing backlash over who it invited to speak at a panel discussion on navigating the legal system. The Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia is now apologizing after the event included Marissa Shephard, who was convicted in…
Afridi leads NBP hockey team recruitment drive
Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has begun the process of selecting players for a new National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) hockey team, in a move aimed at supporting the revival of the national sport. Afridi, who serves as an adviser to NBP, visited Islamabad with his sports team, which has started shortlisting talented players…
OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
OpenAI has acquired an AI travel agent called Odessia, according to Odessia’s founder, Francis Davidson. Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s now working for OpenAI, helping the AI lab with the future of travel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this looks like an acqui-hire. Davidson’s announcement focused largely…
Jamal Shead shouldering more for depleted Raptors
TORONTO – Just 10 games into the season and the Toronto Raptors are depleted. Superstar Kawhi Leonard has only played twice and won’t be back in the lineup for at least a week, all-star Scottie Barnes and starting point guard Immanuel Quickley have missed back-to-back games, and defensive stalwart Collin Murray-Boyles sat out Monday’s 118-102…
Saud Shakeel, Saqib put Pakistan in control
Left-hander hits 93 to lift hosts to 434-9 declared before debutant Saqib strikes twice to unsettle Sri Lanka KARACHI: Pakistan were in a good position as after declaring their first innings at 434-9 they reduced Sri Lanka to 114-3 when bad light hastened the stumps on the second day of the first Test of the…
