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Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine. buff.ly/d5WBDHJ
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Nearly 3,000 Parks Canada employees face potential job cuts theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Advanced economies generally reached high incomes and productivity levels before their populations began aging. But birth rates are now falling sharply in emerging economies, too. mck.co/3UkzjeR
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Haitian officials said they had killed a major gang leader in the capital as private mercenaries and at least 2,000 El Salvadoran troops join the fight to regain control of the troubled Caribbean nation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Physicists were surprised to discover that quantum effects prevent materials from ever being fully transparent.
sciam.com/article/nothing-ca…
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Canada added no private sector jobs from 2019 to 2024 — U.S. did the exact opposite nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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Ottawa to expand CSIS’s powers to spy abroad theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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Space is no longer an enabler — it’s a warfighting domain.
DIA released the 2026 edition of Challenges to Security in Space: Congestion, Competition, and Cooperation. Learn what DIA anticipates operations in space to look like in 2040!
Read the report: dia.mil/Military-Power-Publi…
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The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error. buff.ly/1hGjNVQ
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We preliminarily found that TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed has a harmful design.
It shows users endless and repeated exposure of personalised videos, even when those have a negative effect on mental health.
While TikTok has implemented measures to mitigate this risk, we consider them insufficiently effective and call for readjustment.
🔗link.europa.eu/Tpc7kc
ALT An EU-themed graphic with a purple gradient background and yellow stars. Bold white text reads PRELIMINARY FINDING at the top, followed by 'TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed is in breach of the Digital Services Act.' A European Commission logo is centered along the bottom.
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Europe's tech sovereignty starts with innovation made in the 🇪🇺.
The new EU Chip Design Platform will accelerate chip innovation by supporting startups, SMEs and researchers with design tools, design support services, IP blocks and manufacturing capacity.
The initiative is backed by €525 million.
➡️ link.europa.eu/f3v3xF
ALT On a blue background the text reads EUROPE’S DIGITAL FUTURE in large, bold white and yellow lettering, with the subtitle 'Stronger. Smarter. Sovereign.' Below it are three white icons and labels—AI, Cloud, and Chips—separated by thin vertical lines: three sparkles, a cloud with an upload arrow, and a microchip. A white outlined EU logo appears in the bottom-right corner.
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DOJ LAUNCHES SUPER INTELLIGENCE TASK FORCE ⬇️
@POTUS Trump has made clear that “America stands at the forefront of a new technological revolution in intelligence,” and the Department will be a leader in safeguarding against malicious SI actors.
“The SI Task Force at the Department of Justice will facilitate our partnership with SI Force Chair Jay Clayton as we ensure critical SI technologies serve the American people and are not manipulated by bad actors at home or abroad. The Department of Justice will continue identifying and prosecuting individuals whose use of SI violates the law, including by maliciously targeting American taxpayers, critical U.S. infrastructure, or other aspects of our national security.” -@AGToddBlanche
Read more about the DOJ-SITF here: justice.gov/opa/pr/departmen…
ALT DOJ LAUNCHES SUPER INTELLIGENCE TASK FORCE
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North Korea's army of world-class hackers is secret weapon that took down Binance reut.rs/4z7QaQi
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Despite a 25% historic drop in bilateral aid in 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa keeps growing. Growth is projected to reach 4.3% in 2026, with upgrades for nearly three quarters of countries: bit.ly/4yCe46Q
#AfricaEconomicUpdate
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Building in zero gravity? ✅
Autonomously? ✅
With simple engineering principles? ✅
Our NOM4D program, with @Caltech, has demonstrated the first automated assembly of a structure in space, marking a major milestone in how we design, build, and operate beyond Earth.
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Delegating mental work to AI can give students more room to explore ideas – or let them skip the struggle that helps them learn. @StanfordEd researchers explain the trade-offs of cognitive offloading.
news.stanford.edu/stories/20…
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External debt of developing countries jumped 5.5% to a record $9.4 trillion in 2025, the fastest pace since 2021, and about four times the 2022–24 average.
Access to international finance has improved, but the price of finance has not.
Read #IDR2026 ➡️ openknowledge.worldbank.org/…
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Flying high!
Today, our X-59 quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft traveled from Birmingham, Alabama, to Daytona Beach, Florida. The aircraft aims to fly faster than sound with just a gentle thump rather than a sonic boom — helping usher in a new era of faster air travel.
We're prepping to feature X-59 at MAX POWER and will provide updates soon!
ALT NASA’s X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft in flight over the ocean, seen from the side with its long, needle-thin nose pointing left. The aircraft is silver-white on top with a dark blue underside. Puffy white clouds and a strip of coastline fill the background.
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Ethiopia now ranks as Africa’s fifth-biggest economy after a data overhaul suggested its GDP is 60% bigger than previously estimated. bloom.bg/4sHcgHN
📷: Marco Simoncelli / Getty Images
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Breaking: The AI rout wiped out $2.5 trillion from the Nasdaq, the worst one-day destruction of value in its history on.wsj.com/4sN0w6z
