Kelowna businesses raise safety concerns as mayoral candidates debate public safety – Okanagan

Frustration is growing on Commerce Avenue in Kelowna. Business owner Gerald Goertsen says over the weekend security cameras captured someone ripping out lavender plants from the side of his commercial building. “Just complete destruction without, without any consequence,” Goertsen said. He describes the latest incident as part of a pattern of crime and social disorder…

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Asian Games organisers regret Pakistan and South Korea travel mix-ups

Gold medallists Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Kurbanov, Vadim Sharlaimov, Kirill Prokhodov and Yerlik Sertay celebrate on the podium after winning the Men’s Team Epee at the Aichi International Exhibition Center, Tokoname, Japan, September 27, 2026. — Reuters NAGOYA: Organisers of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 apologised for a travel mix-up on Monday, which saw Pakistan reaching a…

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Anthropic’s prospectus particulars losses, development, and, sure, a warning that its AI may finish humanity

Anthropic devoted practically a 3rd of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to threat components, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the submitting in latest days. The submitting particulars particular, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its fashions have already proven or may present, together with makes an attempt to “resist shutdown,” to…

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Montreal police say evidence in investigation into alleged racist conduct by officers submitted to prosecutors – Montreal

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police say evidence gathered in a criminal investigation into allegations of discriminatory and racist conduct by officers from a neighbourhood station in the city’s east end has been submitted to Quebec prosecutors for review. In an update Monday, the SPVM said evidence collected as part of…

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Infantino orders FIFA funding review

COPENHAGEN: FIFA President Gianni Infantino has ordered an assessment of proposals to distribute more money to national associations, following calls from UEFA ‌and CONCACAF for a $2.1 billion payout from the governing body’s reserves, but stopped short of committing to an amount. In a letter to the six continental confederation presidents seen by Reuters on…

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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a 5-model audio stack spanning ASR, TTS and realtime interaction. The main model is Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex speech model built for voice agents that call tools. Qwen also cut prices: about 85% on Realtime, about 70% on TTS and up to 95% on ASR. Is it deployable? Yes, as…

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