Backlash to OpenAI luxury retreat highlights influencers' uncertain relationship with AI

OpenAI, the tech giant behind ChatGPT, hosted an all-expenses-paid gathering of content creators to promote its new AI workplace tools. The backlash from followers was fierce and experts say it may just force the influencer marketing economy to figure out where it stands on artificial intelligence.


Experts are slamming a now-suspended AI feature on Google Earth. What's at stake?

Google recently suspended a new feature that briefly allowed users to superimpose AI-generated images over Google Earth satellite maps. Experts say it could fuel online disinformation and undermine trust in satellite imagery — a key tool used to investigate human rights abuses worldwide.


Get ready for 'meteor Christmas' with an added bonus: a partial solar eclipse

Every August we are treated to one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Perseids. But this year, during the day of the peak, much of Canada will also get a partial solar eclipse.


Bezos-backed $200M species project faces greenwashing scrutiny

Although the Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio-backed Phoenix Species Project faces some funding controversy, grassroots organizations are still using it to make a difference.


Ontario Conservative MP Larry Brock to exit Parliament in September

Conservative MP Larry Brock, from the Ontario riding of Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, says he'll be resigning from Parliament next month, noting in a social media post that he'd accepted an opportunity at the Brantford Crown Attorney's office.


3 people dead after ‘tragic accident’ during transfer from Edmonton correctional facility: CSC

Correctional Service Canada (CSC) says two of its officers and a person the agency says was an offender have died as a result of a “tragic accident during a transfer from Edmonton Institution for Women.”


Jalapeno-linked salmonella outbreak hits 27 U.S. states. What's the risk in Canada?

Health Canada says the Public Health Agency of Canada is not currently investigating any salmonella infections tied to a jalapeno-linked outbreak in the United States, where at least 345 people across 27 states have gotten sick.


New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567M to address platforms' harms to young people

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million US to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial.


Man accused of starting Spokane wildfire looked up best weather to ignite blaze: police

A man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best for igniting it, police said.


Charles Darwin finally proven right about bug-eating plant after 150 years

Scientists have finally proven what Charles Darwin suspected more than a century ago — that a small, innocent-looking flowering plant growing in the rocky mountain crevices of southwestern China is, in fact, a killer.