‘Cruel’: Legal community questions N.S. move to exclude tents from higher income assistance – Halifax

Members of Halifax’s legal community are reacting after the provincial government prevented people living in tents from accessing higher income assistance benefits. Human rights lawyer Vince Calderhead has been fighting for years to secure better income supports for people living in tents. On Aug. 5, he saw his position validated by the Nova Scotia Court…

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OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon,” but will make the model’s advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners in its Daybreak Blue early-access program…

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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June 2026. The two are the same underlying model behind different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available as claude-fable-5-1; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted to vetted organizations. Both carry a 1M token context window and 128K…

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Shelton advances at US Open

NEW YORK: Eighth seed Ben Shelton recovered from a shaky begin to beat Tallon Griekspoor 1-6 6-1 7-6(3) 6-2 within the first spherical of the U.S. Open on Monday. Shelton, who’s seeking to develop into the primary American man to win the title since 2003, has endured a disappointing run on this yr’s Grand Slams…

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