Sci-Tech

This year academic scientists in the U.S. have been on shaky ground as the Trump administration  cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research. Now, Canada is trying to capitalize on that shifting environment, with federal funding allotted for leading global researchers, along with immigration reform to make the transition easier.

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui.

South Africa’s communications minister ordered a policy change Friday that allows Elon Musk’s Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30 per cent of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners.

One of the most spectacular celestial shows of the year is set to peak this weekend, and lunar conditions are expected to provide convenient viewing windows on Friday and Saturday evening for people across Canada – as long as clouds don’t get in the way.

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withhold federal broadband funding from states whose laws to regulate artificial intelligence are judged by his administration to be holding back American dominance in the technology.

As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks.

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a US$40-billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them that the investment -- secretly propped up by cash infusions -- was safe.

Tech company Reddit launched a legal challenge Friday to Australia’s social media ban on under-16s, just days after the landmark laws came into effect.

The estate of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the ChatGPT chatbot fueled her son’s paranoid delusions and contributed to her murder.

The federal government is giving Hydro Ottawa $6 million toward implementing artificial intelligence to predict when the electricity grid might face peaks in demand.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his administration is partnering with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to bring artificial intelligence into more than 5,000 public schools.

The federal government is using artificial intelligence to sort through public input on AI policy.