It was another round of heavy rain — and for some Pierrefonds residents, another flood. Chad Watson has been through this three times now: first in August 2024, then again in June, after he’d finished rebuilding it, and Monday, he was back to dealing with water again. He says the flooding has taken an emotional…
Stability AI, the startup behind AI picture era mannequin Secure Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Collection B funding. The brand new haul brings the corporate’s fundraising complete to $232 million. The corporate announced the spherical Tuesday, saying the brand new capital comes partly from quite a few outstanding leisure business organizations, together with Common…
When Andrew Erickson spotted a little grey cat sitting alone on a burned dock, he knew something was wrong. The Bradley Creek wildfire had ripped through the area, and Erickson had been helping his neighbours survey the damage from a boat when he saw her. “We spotted a little grey cat sitting on a dock….
OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this individual oversaw the execution of the company’s data center strategy. Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, left the company last week, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Malone, who spent nearly five years at Meta…
A 60-year-old Vancouver woman says she was the victim of a random assault in the Downtown Eastside. Bethan Jones told Global News that at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, she had just picked up groceries at No Frills to make sandwiches for the homeless when she crossed East Hastings Street and Clark Street. She said a…
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 million according to a regulatory filing. That additional capital is an extension of a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures that…
Saskatchewan honey producers are feeling the sting of an escalating trade war with the United States. Hannigan Honey near Shellbrook is one of many businesses taking a major hit from new U.S. tariffs. “It’s a bit of a wait-and-see situation, but certainly there is a lot of concern,” said owner Murray Hannigan. In its 84…
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. This week, Liquid AI released Pipette. It is an open-source platform for benchmarking foundation models on edge devices, built in partnership with Artificial Analysis as an independent methodology validator. Pipette treats on-device behavior as a…
A third member of the BC Conservative Party called it quits on Tuesday. Rosalyn Bird announced that she is walking away from the Conservatives, joining MLAs Ian Paton and Peter Milobar as recent defectors. Bird said in a statement that it was a difficult decision and that one of her reasons for leaving was due…
Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news was shared via a brief message posted to the project’s website, and follows X’s earlier attempts to knock Nitter offline by…
