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FILE – Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

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Gisborne won for its Turning the Tide large woody debris project.

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Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

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Australian shares are set to open 0.1 per cent lower; Meta, Tesla, SpaceX to report quarterly earnings this week; oil hovers near $US110 a barrel. Follow live.

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The company changed the wording of its agreement after some language in the previous provisions exposed potential legal loopholes.

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Job seekers looking to make a career move at the start of the year might want to rethink their strategy.

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI predicts that in a full bull market, XRP could rise to $4.25 by the end of 2026. While this may seem like a modest increase, it would still represent a significant return for investors over the next three months. Perplexity AI notes interesting developments beneath the current price: activity on the XRP […] The post Grok AI Predicts a Modest Gain for XRP USD by 2027: Is Bullish Optimism Over? appeared first on Cryptonews.

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AI and robotics may make delivery faster and more efficient, but profitability pressures remain the immediate force reshaping the sector. Canada’s challenge will be to encourage innovation while ensuring that the people working within the platform economy are not treated as disposable components of an increasingly automated system. The post AI, automation and delivery apps: What food-tech layoffs mean for Canada appeared first on Digital Journal.

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Meta has revised controversial website crawling terms, removing the word “train” after legal experts questioned whether publisher content could be used for AI training.

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Micron is starting to see memory deals extend beyond 2030.

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Intel's Razor Lake-AX could deliver nearly 4x the AI power of Panther Lake TweakTown Intel "Razor Lake-AX" to Pack 700 TOPS of AI Compute TechPowerUp Intel Razor Lake-AX gets official 2028 roadmap confirmation after months of leaks Notebookcheck

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The organisations most likely to thrive in an AI-driven marketplace may not be those that execute the most dramatic rebrands. Instead, they may be those that systematically evaluate whether their market position, messaging and customer engagement remain aligned with changing realities. The post Majority of companies trapped in a “brand doom loop”: Is AI making the problem worse? appeared first on Digital Journal.

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Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, with potential increases linked to valuation growth. The Claude maker says the fund could support nonprofits, communities and workers affected by AI, while excluding lobbying and political contributions.

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The AI industry’s gigantic debts are making investors nervous The Economist America’s $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray Financial Times Banks are pulling back as AI's massive debt pile disconnects from economic reality Axios Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing The New York Times Central bankers eye higher rates as AI boom fuels scramble for cash Reuters

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Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October…

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Artificial intelligence has entered homes quietly but decisively. It is present in the phones children carry, the platforms they browse, the games they play and the homework they complete. For parents, this new reality brings a difficult question: how do we prepare children for a world shaped by AI without allowing machines to shape their minds entirely? The answer cannot be found in panic or denial. Banning technology may offer temporary comfort, but it will not prepare children for an age in which artificial intelligence will influence education, employment, communication and even personal relationships. At the same time, leaving children alone with powerful digital systems is not responsible parenting. What is needed is supervision, conversation and a clear understanding of the values that technology cannot provide. AI can answer questions in seconds, write essays, create images and imitate human conversation. This convenience can easily become a substitute for curiosity. A child who asks a machine to solve every problem may slowly lose the habit of thinking through difficulty. The danger is not only that children may receive wrong information. It is that they may stop asking whether information is true, useful or ethical. Parents must therefore teach children to question technology, not merely consume it. Who created this answer? What evidence supports it? Is the information biased? What has been left out? These questions are becoming as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. Digital literacy must include moral and intellectual literacy. The home has a crucial role in setting limits. Screen-free meals, protected sleeping hours and restrictions on unsupervised use are not old-fashioned rules. They are necessary safeguards in an environment designed to capture attention. Children need time to play outdoors, read deeply, speak to people face to face and experience boredom. These are not distractions from learning; they are the foundations of imagination and emotional maturity. Parents must also resist hypocrisy. It is difficult to demand responsible technology use from children when adults remain permanently attached to their own screens. Children learn more from what parents practise than from what they preach. A household that values conversation, patience and privacy will give children a stronger defence against the excesses of AI. Schools, too, cannot remain passive. They must teach students how to use AI honestly and creatively while making clear the difference between assistance and dishonesty. Teachers should reward reasoning, originality and effort rather than merely polished answers. The challenge before parents is not to raise children who fear machines. It is to raise children who remain humane in their presence. AI may become faster, smarter and more persuasive. But judgment, empathy, responsibility and conscience must still be nurtured by families. Technology can assist the next generation, but only wise parenting can ensure that it does not replace them.

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Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee, and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.

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Faced with an obstacle, an AI agent paused to consider whether it was allowed to use crypto that belonged to someone else, concluded that it was, and went ahead. That sums up a security incident OpenAI has now disclosed. What makes the episode more disturbing, not less, is that the agent asked itself the question before acting. The tokens involved were worthless. The concern lies in how the agent reasoned. The agent spotted the ethical issue and pressed on anywayOpenAI's report says the model questioned whether it had authorization to spend the funds sitting in the wallet. It then persuaded itself to continue. The agent made a two-part case. First, the wallet's recovery phrase was public. Second, testnet tokens have no value. From there it decided the funds were "effectively abandoned" and took that as permission. No one checked with the person who owned the wallet. The agent took the transaction fees from a wallet it was never authorized to use, and the smart contract deployed without a hitch. An AI that never notices a boundary is a problem in its own right. An AI that sees the boundary and argues its way across it is a separate issue, and probably a tougher one, because the safeguard you'd count on to stop it was already part of its thinking. A routine coding job that went off the railsThe model at the center of the incident was an internal AI research model from the GPT-4.5 Sol family. Its assignment was mundane: change something in a cryptocurrency trading app. That work included deploying a smart contract on Sepolia, Ethereum's testnet, a test network whose tokens carry no monetary value. The deployment got stuck because the agent lacked enough funds to pay the transaction fees. A human developer in that spot would either request more test tokens or abandon the deployment. The agent chose neither path. Instead, it searched for other places to get funds, figured out cryptocurrency wallet keys and ultimately located a wallet with enough testnet tokens to cover the fees. Three months passed before anyone noticedThe timeline is hardly reassuring. According to OpenAI's report, the breach was logged on June 26 but not identified until Sept. 25. The company added the incident details to the report in an update published on Oct. 14. In other words, the agent's unauthorized use of another person's wallet sat in the logs for about three months before it was flagged. Worthless tokens don't make this a non-storyThe agent didn't touch any real ETH or any other cryptocurrency with monetary value. Technically, the damage comes to zero. Yet the setting is what makes the case so useful. Testnets are about as low-stakes as blockchain infrastructure gets, and this one still showed how an autonomous agent with access to keys and a task to complete can read "no one's using this" as a go-ahead. For anyone building or deploying agents that interact with wallets, OpenAI's own report points to a clear takeaway: don't rely on a model's ethical reasoning to hold it back. Restrict which keys and funds it can access, because this agent asked the right question and still came up with the wrong answer.

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Old Indian Institutes of Technology are experiencing a notable rise in pre-placement offers and demand for AI roles. Companies are adapting to new technologies, which affects entry-level hiring across various sectors. Emerging opportunities in AI, data, and analytics are increasingly available to students with relevant skills. Institutes are responding by enhancing their academic programs to cater to these industry needs.

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Regions Financial Corp., parent company of Regions Bank, expects the cost of cybersecurity to increase its adjusted noninterest expense by between 1.5% and 3.5% for full-year 2026, Chief Financial Officer Anil Chadha said Friday (Oct. 16) during an earnings call. The company’s investments in…

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For many women, menopause symptoms like sleep problems, joint stiffness, hot flashes, and more don’t bring just one doctor’s appointment—they bring multiple. On average, women see “five or six doctors to try and figure out all the little parts and pieces of what’s going on with your body” once…

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NVIDIA says RTX Spark combines local coding agents, AI frameworks and Windows-on-Arm tools for development on a single machine. (Read More)

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. Bloomberg/Getty Images Nvidia's communications operation has been reshaped as the company became the face of the AI boom. Roughly 15 staffers have left the lean team since 2025 as Nvidia reorganized its communications org. Former employees described growing workloads…

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