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Quebec separatists win election reviving push for independence
Parti Quebecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon vows a future referendum on independence from Canada.
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Coalition MPs concede immigration pledge not fully costed by independent watchdog
Angus Taylor says opposition ‘worked closely’ with Parliamentary Budget Office but Liberal sources say it has not yet conducted a full analysis of the policy Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Coalition MPs concede the party’s newly released immigration policy has not been costed in full by…
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McDonald’s sued for alleged antitrust violations by using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises
Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across independent franchises, which prosecutors say violates antitrust laws and has unfairly inflated menu…
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'Get on with the day job' - Welsh Tory leader attacks first minister's independence push
Darren Millar says Rhun ap Iorwerth has failed to improve public services or help Welsh businesses.
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Separatists Are Poised to Win Quebec’s Election. Independence Is Still a Hard Sell.
The Parti Québécois has vowed to hold a referendum on independence, three decades after Quebec voted “no.” Voters want change, but maybe not that much.
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Why Paramount-Warner merger has sparked fears about press freedom
Chairman's family ties to Trump and Israel raise questions over editorial independence at CNN and CBS.
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Quebec poised to elect separatists to power for first time in more than a decade
Parti Québécois promises to hold independence referendum in Canada’s French-speaking region by 2028 Voters in Quebec are going to the polls in provincial elections which will probably result in victory for a party that has promised to hold a referendum on independence from Canada within the next two years. If polls…
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Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case
Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.
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A separatist party just won power in Quebec - what does that mean?
Canada's Parti Québécois has promised it will hold the province's third vote on independence, but said they won’t do so until Donald Trump is out of office.
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Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests ( OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing, 28 September ). There is the usual call for…
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OpenAI admits misstep in handling AI agent interactions with Australian government sites – video
In a parliamentary inquiry, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is questioned by independent senator David Pocock about the company's notification process after OpenAI agents accessed Australian government website data in June. Asked why OpenAI relied on an arbitrary department email rather than direct government…
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Secessionist party wins Quebec election in Canada
Parti Quebecois returns to power, promising a third referendum on Quebec's independence from Canada.
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Separatist party projected to win Quebec election, adding new test to Canada's unity
The Parti Québécois, which secured a minority, has vowed to hold an independence referendum in the years to come.
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Trump says taxpayers will no longer fund TV ads that praise him
Move comes after ethics experts criticised three nationally broadcast ads and called for independent investigations.
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CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson Says He Will Stay On Under New Owner Skydance
Mark Thompson told the network’s employees that he had faith that David Ellison, the chief executive of Skydance, would support “independent news that CNN has always stood for.”
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Voters in Quebec Election Go to Polls as Separatist Parti Québécois Leads
The Parti Québécois, which promised an independence referendum if elected on Monday, could return to power after more than a decade.
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Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
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