Trump’s directive comes amid a feud between the Pentagon and top artificial intelligence lab Anthropic over concerns about how the military could use AI at war.
Author: Mario Spencer
Gross domestic product contracted at an annualized pace of 0.6 per cent in the quarter running from October to December, Statistics Canada said. The country’s overall growth for 2025 was 1.7 per cent — in line with Bank of Canada expectations, but the slowest pace of annual growth since the decline in 2020.
China said on Friday it would suspend some tariffs on Canadian agricultural products imposed during a trade spat between Beijing and Ottawa, after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck an initial deal with Beijing during a visit in January.
A boom of investment in artificial intelligence has led to an unforeseen problem: a shortage of the world’s memory chip supply, which threatens to drive up the price of consumer electronics like laptops, smartphones and video game consoles.
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot that was founded with a focus on safe technology, appears to be scaling back its safety commitments in order to keep the company competitive, after it amended a set of self-imposed guidelines aimed at preventing the development of AI that could potentially be dangerous.
Netflix on Thursday signaled it was backing away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio assets, saying the deal was no longer financially attractive after Paramount Skydance revised its offer for the coveted Hollywood studio to a $31-a-share offer.
The social media platform owned by Meta will now alert parents who are signed up to its optional supervision setting if their teenager repeatedly searches for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period. The alerts will begin next week for those signed up in Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia.
The recall applies to many popular models like certain years of the F-150, a number of Super Duty trucks, Mavericks and more. Ford says it will issue an over-the-air software update for all affected models by May, and consumers can also use mobile service or visit a Ford dealer for the update.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has provided CBC News with new details about the $10,000 fine it issued to a Loblaw-owned Superstore last month for promoting imported food as Canadian. The federal food regulator said the mislabelled product was a Loblaw-owned brand: President’s Choice broccoli slaw.