CALGARY – Two CFL teams on the ropes for different reasons seek traction Saturday at McMahon Stadium. The Calgary Stampeders (5-8) are battling for their playoff lives while the visiting Ottawa Redblacks (0-12) just want their first win of 2026. “They’re coming in desperate. We’re desperate,” Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., said Friday. “They’re trying…
PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-weight version of Qwen3.8 27B. The language model occupies 5.93 GB, against 53.80 GB in FP16. PrismML reports that it keeps 98.2% of the parent model’s average across 20 benchmarks. The model accepts text and images and supports a 262K-token context. PrismML demos it driving Cline coding…
By Aamer Madhani The Associated Press Posted September 18, 2026 6:57 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark to bolster the U.S. military presence in Greenland after months of threatening to take island by force from the NATO ally. Trump in a social media post announcing the deal said the agreement “gives the United States permanent control over security, and…
Floyd Samba scored twice on his Manchester Metropolis debut. Photograph: AFP MANCHESTER: Floyd Samba loved a dream Manchester Metropolis debut because the 17-year-old struck twice in a 5-0 thrashing of Norwich to arrange a League Cup final 16 assembly towards Brighton. Samba was considered one of 10 modifications Enzo Maresca made to the aspect that…
In early 2025 I used to be interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he defined why, regardless of the corporate’s repeated acknowledgments that AI may yield catastrophic outcomes, individuals appeared largely unperturbed. “There may be compelling proof that the fashions can wreak havoc,” he mentioned. However, he added, these risks had been nonetheless theoretical. Wouldn’t…
BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says she has removed three party members from caucus. “Effective immediately, Trevor Halford, Claire Rattée, and John Rustad will no longer serve as members of the Conservative Party of British Columbia Caucus,” Findlay said in a statement. “With an election potentially on the horizon, our focus must be on British…
Abhishek Sharma’s 34-ball blitz powers India previous Afghanistan as hosts full 3-0 T20I sweep India’s Abhishek Sharma celebrates after scoring a century in the course of the third T20I towards Afghanistan in New Delhi.. Photograph: AFP Abhishek Sharma turned the third Twenty20 worldwide into a private spotlight reel on Thursday, smashing a record-laden 108 from…
Jina AI, part of Elastic, has released jina-ocr-v1, an end-to-end visual document parser. It takes PDFs, scans, tables, charts or invoices and returns clean Markdown in 1 pass. The model has 3.4B total parameters, with about 570M decoder parameters active per token. A speculative decoding head ships inside the checkpoint. Jina AI built it to…
By Eli Ridder The Canadian Press Posted September 18, 2026 4:42 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A New Brunswick member of Parliament is calling on the provincial government to reject a proposed artificial intelligence data centre in Saint John, warning that it could overwhelm the power grid. Conservative…
KARACHI: Pakistan will begin a five-day training camp at Karachi on Sunday as the country’s Twenty20 squad prepares for the Asian Games in Japan, where they will enter the men’s cricket tournament directly at the quarter-finals stage. The camp at the National Bank Stadium will feature batting, bowling and fielding sessions before the team travels…
