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DOJ expands beef price probe to eight retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, with inflation a key issue ahead of midterm elections thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

DOJ expands beef price probe to eight retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, with inflation a key issue ahead of midterm elections

This year’s been a rough one for meat lovers. There’s the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite from Mexico that led to dozens of...

Bitcoin is trading more like an ‘amplified version of gold’ again, but the four-year cycle theory threatens further declines thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Bitcoin is trading more like an ‘amplified version of gold’ again, but the four-year cycle theory threatens further declines

Bitcoin hit a multi-month high this week thanks in part to investors fleeing volatility and treating the largest cryptocurrency like a safe haven...

‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit

Not long after Meta agreed to fork up up to $18 billion over the next decade for its child-safety settlement, the tech giant...

Denmark and four EU countries agree on migrant ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc, aim to start by 2027 thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Denmark and four EU countries agree on migrant ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc, aim to start by 2027

Denmark and four other European Union countries agreed Friday on a model for “return hubs” in non-EU nations and hope to begin sending migrants to...

OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra’s evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra’s evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch

OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3. In...

It’s not just math and reading. Classroom devices deprive kids of skills needed in the AI future and how to be ‘fully human,’ education experts say thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

It’s not just math and reading. Classroom devices deprive kids of skills needed in the AI future and how to be ‘fully human,’ education experts say

As the new school year begins, the debate over digital versus analog learning rages on, while more school districts reconsider the role of...

Warner Bros. axed ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ three years ago to take a tax write off. But it’s finally in theaters after a public outcry—and a box office hit thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Warner Bros. axed ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ three years ago to take a tax write off. But it’s finally in theaters after a public outcry—and a box office hit

Three years after Warner Bros. abruptly canned “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment debuted...

Battle for Hormuz: U.S. forces take first military action against Iran in a month, striking rocket launchers being used to deploy sea mines thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Battle for Hormuz: U.S. forces take first military action against Iran in a month, striking rocket launchers being used to deploy sea mines

U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in the first military action in a month on Sunday, according to a U.S....

Iran’s president admits ‘we have many problems’ and missiles ‘are of no use’ as the U.S. chokes its economy while weakening Tehran’s grip on Hormuz thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Iran’s president admits ‘we have many problems’ and missiles ‘are of no use’ as the U.S. chokes its economy while weakening Tehran’s grip on Hormuz

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged his country’s economic woes amid pressure from the U.S., which is strangling its trade while protecting other countries’...

Shein CEO’s wealth slumps $15 billion after whittled-down IPO thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Shein CEO’s wealth slumps $15 billion after whittled-down IPO

Chinese fast-fashion business Shein Global Holdings Ltd. was once worth more than the parent companies of H&M and Zara, giving its reclusive boss...