The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to review a possible merger. The special committees, which consist of independent directors, were created at the request of shareholders, according to Elon Musk, CEO and the largest individual shareholder of both companies. “Because I’m a conflicted party, I can’t actually be in the…
New data from Health Canada show that flu season is arriving early in B.C., with the province leading the way. According to the department, more than five per cent of tests detected influenza in the week of Oct. 4. The most common detection was Influenza A(H1N1) at 98.4 per cent. The population most affected was…
Pakistan ended their wrestling journey in the Asian Games on a disappointing note when their remaining two wrestlers also exited without giving any breakthrough. Former Youth Olympics bronze medallist Inayat Ullah crashed out of the men’s freestyle 74kg competition after suffering a 12-2 defeat against Kazakhstan’s Nurkozha Kaipanov in the round of 16 in Nagoya….
Over the past year, concerns have swirled over the potential dangers posed by artificial intelligence, and debates have raged over the proper path for AI safety. Now, Anthropic appears to have put forth its own vision for how the government might regulate its industry. Politico recently reported that the AI lab has been shopping around…
As the B.C. provincial election campaign enters the final week, a new poll shows that the BC Conservatives are leading by five points among decided voters. “The biggest takeaway is that the Conservatives are ahead, and when we look at the overall pattern, it looks like it will be difficult for the NDP to narrow…
Max Verstappen celebrates after qualifying in pole position. Photo: REUTERS SEPANG: Red Bull’s Max ​Verstappen claimed his first pole position of the season at the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia ‌on Saturday, proving he remains the master of Sepang’s challenging circuit nine years after his last victory there. Verstappen clocked 1 minute 35.130…
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework that runs its production services. The DeepSeek DeepInfer inference framework is the engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. It ships under the Apache 2.0 license. DeepSeek also released deepseek-recipe, its MIT-licensed token encoding and decoding layer. For developers, this is a rare look at a frontier lab’s real serving stack. TL;DR…
Three men have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man outside a trades college in west Edmonton. On Tuesday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said an autopsy confirmed the victim, 28-year-old Justin Hunt, died of multiple gunshot wounds and the medical examiner ruled the death was a homicide. Hunt was…
Pakistani players celebrate after taking a wicket during the second match of the ODI tri-series against England at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on October 20, 2026. — PCB Arafat Minhas delivered an all-round performance to help Pakistan defeat England by 87 runs, securing their second win in the ongoing ODI tri-series at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium…
