River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. (AMP PBC is an AI-focused investment firm founded in 2026 by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney…
The City of Calgary and Rockyview County have signed on to an agreement that’s set to accelerate work around Prairie Economic Gateway, a multi-billion dollar logistics hub slated for the city’s southeast limits. The memorandum of understanding announced Tuesday is between the two municipalities and the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), and is set to “speed…
Individual performances in Dambulla bring notable ranking gains for players from both sides Pakistan’s consolation victory over Sri Lanka in the third and final T20I has helped several of their players move up the latest ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings. Spinner Nashra Sundhu was the biggest mover for Pakistan, climbing one place to eighth in…
NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a lightweight, customizable open model built for high-volume agentic tasks, and NeMo Switchyard is an open source routing library that directs each step of an agent workflow to the most capable and efficient…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A central Edmonton neighbourhood is a step closer to having its own community arts hub for artists and performers. ArtsCommon 118 in the Alberta Avenue area has achieved an important milestone after running into roadblocks a number of times over the past two decades. “This is gonna…
As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu has seized the boom, raising $93 million in fresh funding. The Bengaluru‑based startup offers electric two‑wheelers on weekly subscription plans, so delivery drivers can jump straight into the gig economy without buying their own vehicles. With around…
The city is taking a closer look at how and where e-scooters and e-bikes should operate in Edmonton. Councillors heard Tuesday that safety and parking still remain a top concern for Edmontonians, so they’re looking at ways to address that. Those concerns ring a bell for Kyrie Herman and her daughter, as they are part-time…
Object removing fashions have improved sooner than the metrics used to evaluate them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded construction convincingly, but PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD incessantly rank their outputs the flawed method. The foundation trigger is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many job, so no single floor fact exists to…
New documents show that more than 300,000 acres of land could be transferred to Vancouver Island First Nations, which are currently finalizing treaties. Approximately 30 parcels of Crown land would be given to five First Nations, which are located from Parksville to Victoria. The list includes Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University, waterfront in Victoria, property…
Brad Lightcap, one of the longest-serving executives at OpenAI, is leaving the powerful AI lab to “start something new.” In an internal message that Lightcap shared online Tuesday, the outgoing executive told OpenAI staff that it was “bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new.” Lightcap, who joined the…
