Situational Consciousness, the AI centered hedge fund that was Wall Road’s fleeting obsession, is having a really dangerous month. The corporate, led by twentysomething OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, went all-in on quite a lot of AI investments and, for a interval, loved phenomenal progress. Then, on the finish of July, a downturn in AI shares…
The summer of 2026 will be remembered for record-breaking rainfalls and multiple storms a week throughout June and July. Close to a month since the onslaught of extreme weather calmed down, city-owned utility provider EPCOR provided a verbal update to the City of Edmonton’s utility committee about how it managed its response to the series…
A groundsman covers the pitch as rain halts play during the second day of the second Test between Sri Lankan and India at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo on August 24, 2926. Photo: AFP India strengthened their position in the second Test against Sri Lanka, reaching 475-8 before rain intervened on the second…
Oura, the smart ring maker, with offices in San Francisco and Finland, is reportedly planning to raise up to $3 billion as soon as next month in a U.S. IPO that values the more than 900-person company at [spits out coffee] north of $16 billion, according to Bloomberg. The outlet adds that investors are expected…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Numbers released by Statistics Canada show that while the FIFA World Cup brought visitors to Vancouver and Toronto, the overall bump in international guests was relatively small. International arrivals to Canada in June were up just 3.3 per cent and up 5.8 per cent in July, for…
Anthony Gordon set up two goals and Fermin Lopez netted two as Barca thrashed Elche in their Liga season opener. Photo: AFP BARCELONA: Spanish champions Barcelona cruised to a 5-0 win over Elche on Sunday in their La Liga opener with Raphinha and Fermin Lopez scoring twice each and Anthony Gordon setting up two goals…
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible but expensive per document. Fastino released GLiNER2.5 to narrow that gap. The release replaces span enumeration with boundary prediction: the model scores where an entity starts and ends instead of scoring every candidate span against…
A Crown prosecutor argued in front of a Superior Court judge Monday that one of two suspects who police alleged fired shots at the U.S. Consulate in March should not have been released in bail. Zara Jabbi, 19, was arrested on June 17, less than a week after Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto was shot…
SAOC delegation inspects Islamabad venues ahead of 2027 Games. ISLAMABAD: A delegation from the South Asian Olympic Council (SAOC) visited Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad on Monday to review preparations for next year’s South Asian Games, examining venues and facilities that will host athletes from across the region. The delegation toured several competition venues and…
President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first reported by Reuters, two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company. It’s not clear what price Trump paid for the shares, but by that point they had fallen from their highs of…
