Settlement approved for Canadians affected by past 23andMe data breach

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A multimillion-dollar settlement has been approved in a class action claim involving Canadian customers of the 23andMe genetic testing company who were affected by a past data breach.

U.S. stocks fall, oil prices rise as Trump’s delays fail to quell fears

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The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average all sank in early trading, a day after Wall Street’s worst drop since the conflict with Iran started. Canada’s main stock index was in positive territory, however.

Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon’s blacklist of AI company Anthropic

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In their lawsuit, Anthropic accused the government of violating its rights when U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk. The judge’s decision is the latest in the saga between the AI company and the government over how Anthropic’s technology can be used for defence purposes.

Judge hands defeat to Musk’s X, throws out lawsuit accusing advertisters of illegal boycott

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A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.’s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers ‌and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company.

Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House

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Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.

Sora, OpenAI’s generative video app, is history. Here’s what that means for the firm’s future

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OpenAI has decided to scrap Sora, its app that generated videos based on user prompts. The move reveals that the company, once the disruptor-in-chief of the AI world, is now facing something of an identity crisis as it struggles to pick a lane on the busy road to profitability.

Wall Street sees worst drop since Iran war began, as Nasdaq sinks 10% below its record

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Stocks fell sharply on Thursday, and oil prices rose as doubt took over from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

TD revises 2026 housing market forecast, expects sales and prices to fall this year

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As of December, TD initially forecasted a 9.3 per cent year-over-year gain in home sales for 2026 as well as a 4.1 per cent increase in average home prices. The report says pent-up demand is taking longer than expected to return, but projects sales will rebound in 2027.

As one N.W.T. diamond mine shuts down, these workers want to stay in the North

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The Diavik diamond mine has been operating for decades, producing more than 150 million carats of diamonds. Not all of its workers are from the North, but at least some of those who’ve come up say they want to stay.

Why we should ‘fight like hell’ against Big AI

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Tech journalist Karen Hao, who once worked in Silicon Valley as an engineer, is sounding the alarm on holding AI giants accountable. She argues people need to push back against massive companies that are ‘consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics’ as well as our lives and work.