Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable taskmaster, has been praised as feeling “like magic” and being one of the “most exciting launches” since OpenClaw. However, some testers have also raised concerns…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 24, 2026 1:36 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size New Brunswick’s premier says she’s ready to work with the prime minister to hit the U.S. where it hurts. Susan Holt says her government is working with Ottawa on retaliatory tariffs after Canada-U.S….
The Afghanistan Cricket Board’s (ACB) nationwide choice committee has finalised Afghanistan’s squad for the upcoming three-match T20I collection in opposition to India scheduled to be held from September 13 to 17, 2026, on the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in New Delhi.Ibrahim Zadran will lead the facet within the collection, which can mark his first project as…
How much control are you willing to give an LLM over your digital life? Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys. For a control freak or the AI-hesitant, it seems like a lot. For Andrew Ambrosino, the lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop app, it’s the only way to test the…
A French tourist died last week after he became stranded on a remote road in California’s Death Valley National Park, according to the National Park Service. In a news release, the National Park Service said that the 68-year-old French visitor died on Aug. 17 after he and his travel companion, both from France, were driving…
Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin and Fifa President Gianni Infantino pose during the 50th Ordinary Uefa Congress at Brussels Expo in Brussels, Belgium, on February 12, 2026. — Reuters Fifa President Gianni Infantino laid out his manifesto for reelection as the champion of poorer soccer nations on Sunday as Uefa chief Aleksander Ceferin ruled out running…
New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, according to sources familiar with the matter. Existing investors…
Nova Scotia RCMP are alerting citizens that a high-risk offender is believed to be relocating to the province from New Brunswick. It is believed that Robert Edgar Paul, 35, will be residing in the Millbrook area, RCMP said in a release. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll…
Middle order batsman hits 115 not out to help visitors declare at 503-9 against Sri Lanka India’s Dhruv Jurel celebrates after scoring a hundred during the second day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo on August 24, 2026. Photo: AFP COLOMBO: Dhruv Jurel’s unbeaten 115 powered…
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into its 30-second context window, and the robot performs the task. No gradient updates, no fine-tuning, no task-specific programming. Across 10 diverse manipulation tasks, this one-shot in-context prompting averaged 59%…
