OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this individual oversaw the execution of the company’s data center strategy. Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, left the company last week, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Malone, who spent nearly five years at Meta…
A 60-year-old Vancouver woman says she was the victim of a random assault in the Downtown Eastside. Bethan Jones told Global News that at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, she had just picked up groceries at No Frills to make sandwiches for the homeless when she crossed East Hastings Street and Clark Street. She said a…
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 million according to a regulatory filing. That additional capital is an extension of a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures that…
Saskatchewan honey producers are feeling the sting of an escalating trade war with the United States. Hannigan Honey near Shellbrook is one of many businesses taking a major hit from new U.S. tariffs. “It’s a bit of a wait-and-see situation, but certainly there is a lot of concern,” said owner Murray Hannigan. In its 84…
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. This week, Liquid AI released Pipette. It is an open-source platform for benchmarking foundation models on edge devices, built in partnership with Artificial Analysis as an independent methodology validator. Pipette treats on-device behavior as a…
A third member of the BC Conservative Party called it quits on Tuesday. Rosalyn Bird announced that she is walking away from the Conservatives, joining MLAs Ian Paton and Peter Milobar as recent defectors. Bird said in a statement that it was a difficult decision and that one of her reasons for leaving was due…
Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news was shared via a brief message posted to the project’s website, and follows X’s earlier attempts to knock Nitter offline by…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 25, 2026 6:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba’s premier says the province has returned to giving preference to non-U.S. firms for government contracts after the federal trade deal with the Americans fell through. Wab Kinew says the province had held…
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner, tool router and post-trained models directly on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The local model, inference engine, tool sandbox and app connectors ship as one packaged system, every task begins on the device, and work handled by…
Jim Popp is gearing up for long days in front of a computer screen. On Monday, the Ottawa Redblacks appointed Popp as a senior football adviser. The move came after the 0-10 club fired vice-president of football operations Shawn Burke on Sunday. Six days earlier, team president Adrian Sciarra stepped down. Defensive co-ordinator Will Fields…
