The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life. Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are converging. At the same time, consumers expect financial products to be as intuitive and responsive as the best technology products they use every day…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government is rolling out a plan to provide paid, four-month long placements for young people Canadians to build a career in the skilled trades, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Friday. Ottawa plans to spend $880 million over the five years for the plan, which…
LONDON: Thomas Tuchel mentioned England will construct on the “improbable spirit” of their World Cup marketing campaign as he targets glory on residence soil at Euro 2028. The England boss was talking at Wembley after naming a 27-man group for a four-game Nations League camp, beginning with a conflict in opposition to world champions Spain…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash. They called it its first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities. It accepts text, images, audio, and video, and it returns text. Audio-video understanding, reasoning, and tool use sit inside one model. The stated workflow is simple: understand the content, plan the task, execute with tools, deliver the result….
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 18, 2026 9:22 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia Premier David Eby will speak to local politicians at their annual convention Fjust as he contemplates disrupting their upcoming municipal elections with his own provincial vote. The premier’s annual speech to…
Pakistan’s Abdul Rehman looks on during the 2026 Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup preliminary round match against India at Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands, August 19, 2026. — AFP Pakistan’s Abdul Rehman has secured the men’s Magic Skill Award at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026, with his exceptional goal against Wales voted the…
On September 10, two days after researcher Jacob Coxon, who had recently quit his job at Anthropic, sounded the alarm about the industry potentially bringing about the end of humanity, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America posted a carousel of images on Instagram. The first slide was a drawing of an ouroboros—a dragon…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 18, 2026 8:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to address his Liberal caucus in Ottawa on Friday. The Liberal caucus retreat comes just before the fall sitting of the House of Commons gets underway on…
Franchises to be assessed on gamers’ pathway, infrastructure, grassroots work and welfare The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday launched a $200,000 award to acknowledge the franchise that makes the largest contribution to cricket growth, with groups to be assessed on gamers’ pathways, infrastructure, grassroots programmes and participant welfare. “The PCB has right this moment…
How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incident — in which an OpenAI agent hacked several different companies — suggest that AI is on the verge of throwing our world into…
