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- This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve found to explain the dilemma comes from the AI researcher Daniel Meissler: it’s the difference between work and the gym…
- Generative artificial intelligence tools—such as those used to produce text, images and computer code—have emerged rapidly and are increasingly shaping how tasks are performed across workplaces in Canada. While the capabilities of these technologies continue to evolve, their integration into day-to-day work is uneven.
- Owen Bennett asks whether the online safety regulatory apparatus is capable of administering a presumptive social media ban.
- HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
- Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.
- Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
- In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
- Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog
- MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4
- A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
- Documents show the head of the Communications Security Establishment signed off on an exemption covering everything the agency buys, even as its budget climbs past $2 billion
- We visited a fake company that fooled the feds with obviously banned tech.
- Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
- The federal government is committing $607.4 million over four years to continue implementing Canada’s National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence. Women and Gender Equality Minister Rechie Valdez announced the funding Thursday as federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for the status of women met in New Brunswick. The money will begin flowing in 2027-28 and will support renewed bilateral agreements with provinces and territories. Funding aimed at prevention and survivor supports The federal government says the renewed agreements will support programs focused on preventing gender-based violence, improving services for victims and survivors, strengthening community-led initiatives and building safer communities. […]
- One new risk became more salient: letting AI think for you.
- The Quebec and Alberta governments are planning to work together to implement artificial intelligence in public administration as part of new initiatives in the tech industry.
- Last week I gave a talk at Chatham House for an event on ‘Is Data Localisation the Answer to Data Sovereignty? Location, Control and the Architecture of Trust’, organised in collaborat…
- OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
- OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
- A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
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