Taiwan rejects U.S. push to relocate chipmaking production
Taiwan has flatly rejected U.S. efforts to shift a significant share of its semiconductor manufacturing to American soil, saying that relocating 40 per cent of its chip production is neither realistic nor strategic. Despite global pressure and a new wave of overseas expansion by TSMC, the country expects its semiconductor giants to grow domestically first. […]
Canada’s Fusion flagship General Fusion set to go public in $1B SPAC deal
Canada is about to make history in the race for clean energy by taking a homegrown fusion start-up public — and with it, a $1-billion bet on an industrial-style reactor powered by pistons and liquid metal. Vancouver-based General Fusion is merging with U.S.-listed SPAC Spring Valley Acquisition Corp., positioning itself as the world’s first “pure […]
AI-generated disinformation threatens Canadian democracy, experts warn
Canada’s worst-case scenario on artificial intelligence and disinformation may no longer be hypothetical. Researchers say the country has entered an era where deepfakes and AI-generated propaganda are already distorting online discourse, with foreign interference, especially from the United States, increasingly in focus. Government officials acknowledged the urgency this week during a House of Commons committee […]
Claude 4.6 exposes 500+ high-severity security flaws in open-source code
Anthropic’s newly released Claude Opus 4.6 has already uncovered over 500 previously unknown, high-severity vulnerabilities across major open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC and CGIF. The AI model, launched on Feb. 5, didn’t just pass benchmarks but cracked through real-world software with no extra prompting, tools or guidance. Positioned as a next-generation reasoning model, Claude 4.6 […]
