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I write stuff. 📝 Managing Editor @ BetaKit Former writer/co-host @ TLDR Bylines: CBC, HuffPost, Macleans, Weather Network. She/Her. Opinions are my own.

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I write stuff. 📝 Weekly money news at Wealthsimple's TLDR: wsim.co/tldr Bylines: CBC News, HuffPost Canada, Macleans.

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SWIFT Sanctions: The Banking System That Russia Doesn't Want to Lose

SWIFT Sanctions: The Banking System That Russia Doesn't Want to Lose

As countries mull sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, a word - an acronym, actually -…

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A DNA test may have uncovered a secret identity, solved a cold case and reunited a family

A DNA test may have uncovered a secret identity, solved a cold case and reunited a family

Mervin Sinclair's missing person poster doesn't tell the viewer much. It doesn't say he loved to sing and pla…

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Inside the slaughterhouse

Inside the slaughterhouse

Hiep Bui spent 23 years at the Cargill meat-packing plant in southern Alberta — picking out bones from ground…

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100 years ago, a train carrying Spanish flu pulled into Calgary. Within weeks, Alberta was in crisis

100 years ago, a train carrying Spanish flu pulled into Calgary. Within weeks, Alberta was in crisis

The influenza claimed nearly as many lives as the First World War, but it's received much less attention.

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Has the AI “techlash” reached Canada?

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Plus: Google shakes up DeepMind. Last week, an automated bakery in Montréal was vandalized for the second time in recent months. The news: The words “action anti tech” were spray-painted on the business, which is run on a self-serve system and also uses AI in its advertising. On the store’s social media post about the incident, many commenters spoke to their concerns with technology, and the bakery’s use of it, rather than expressing sympathy over the incident.
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U of T professor Jacob Tsimerman, who won math’s highest prize, to join OpenAI

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Fields Medal winner says AI safety is the most important issue of our time. University of Toronto (U of T) professor Jacob Tsimerman, who recently won the prestigious Fields Medal, is leaving the university to join OpenAI. The news: Tsimerman became the second Canadian in history to win the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, last week.
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An OpenAI model hacks Hugging Face

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Plus: Ontario’s AI tool is accused of punishing Black prisoners. A rogue AI breaking containment sounds like a hackneyed science fiction trope. It’s also what an OpenAI model did last week. OpenAI said a combination of models was undergoing internal testing when the agents broke through company guardrails to access the internet in order to find an answer to a question. Those agents then hacked into internal company systems belonging to fellow US AI startup Hugging Face.
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