Chinese regulators have reportedly clamped down on access to ChatGPT, as Chinese tech firms and universities push forward with developing domestic artificial intelligence bots.
ChatGPT, the popular discussion bot created by US-based OpenAI, is not officially available in China, where the government operates a comprehensive firewall and strict internet censorship. But many had been accessing it via VPNs, and some third-party developers had produced programs that gave some access to the service.
For three decades, Barbara Kugler has lived less than a block from the Norfolk Southern railway line that crosses through East Palestine, Ohio. Up until this month, the sound of an oncoming freight train’s warning whistle—long, long, short, long—used to be a comfort.
But now when she hears it, she tenses.
The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. officials said.
The discussions on public disclosure come ahead of Friday’s United Nations Security Council meeting marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. It follows a number of closed-door appeals to China—coordinated among North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies—that culminated in a formal warning delivered over the weekend in Munich to Wang Yi, China’s senior foreign-policy official, by a number of western officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
With Vladimir Putin’s ghastly war of conquest in Ukraine approaching its first anniversary and Canada’s assistance to the gallant Ukrainian resistance marking a rare point of national pride, here’s something about how much the world has changed lately that’s both disturbing and darkly amusing.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of befallen crypto exchange FTX, has been charged with four new criminal counts including allegations of illegal political donations and bank fraud, an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court revealed on Thursday—tacking on to the eight charges already facing the former wunderkind as he gears up for trial later this year.
These are some serious charges.
Loblaw Companies on Thursday forecast annual earnings above analysts’ expectations, after the Canadian retailer’s fourth-quarter results beat estimates, helped by strength in its pharmacy business and as demand held up for groceries.
The company says it earned a profit available to common shareholders of $529 million. Its fourth-quarter revenue rose about 10 per cent to $14.01 billion, topping estimates of $13.75 billion.
One industry expert put it bluntly: “This is what collusion looks like”
On February 14 and 15, 2023, a Rotterdam court, the District Court of The Hague, held the first pro forma hearings against twelve women that the Dutch government brought back from a prison camp in Syria in November 2022. The women were arrested after arrival on suspicion of terrorist crimes, as suspected members of Daesh, a terrorist organization that is accused of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Iraq and Syria. As announced by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, one of the women is also suspected of slavery as a crime against humanity. The woman is said to have used a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria in 2015. It is the first time that someone in the Netherlands has been charged with a crime against the Yazidis and for crimes against humanity.
Every country seems willing and able to prosecute their ISIS sluts. Except Canada. Justin wants that Muslim vote.
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An Ontario detransitioning woman who had her breasts and womb removed to change her gender to male is suing medical and health practitioners for failing to consider alternate treatments during her mental health crisis before ushering her on an irreversible journey she regrets.
Now watch the system circle the wagons as they protect their asses.
Maybe this is the beginning of Nuremburg 2.0. We can hope.
A warrant has been issued for a Toronto man accused of pushing a subway rider onto the tracks at Bloor-Yonge station on Sunday.
On Thursday, Toronto police said a warrant had been issued for a 42-year-old Toronto resident Terrence Hill.
Hill is wanted on one count of assault, two counts of failing to comply with a release order, and one count of failing to comply with a probation order after he allegedly pushed a man onto the subway tracks on Feb. 19.
Related … Violent incidents against Toronto transit riders have gone up 60 per cent in recent years
h/t Sweetpea
Nearly three quarters of Canadians would like to see Ukraine win the war but only about a third think Canada should provide more military equipment
An overwhelming majority of Canadians support Ukraine in its war against Russia, but there’s some skepticism about what — if anything — Canada should do more of in order to support its ally, according to a new poll.
Trudeau can’t be bothered to maintain Canada’s army so the US is dreaming we’ll meet treaty obligations – U.S. ‘remains hopeful’ Canada will hit NATO defence spending target: ambassador
Trudeau used tax payer money to burnish his image when he bought Ukraine an air-defense system, one that our own troops have been denied for years. How soon before the cupboard is bare for everyone?
More… Ukrainians who fled to Canada are building armoured vehicles to help war effort
A Florida journalist and a 9-year-old girl were gunned down Wednesday afternoon by a suspect wanted in an earlier fatal shooting at the same scene, authorities said.
Two others were also wounded, including a second Spectrum News 13 journalist, in the 4 p.m. gunfire on Hialeah Street in Pine Hills, according to Orange County Sheriff John Mina.
The most recent reports have revealed just how extensive China’s activities have become, and exposed the Trudeau government’s astonishing reluctance to treat them with the seriousness they deserve
Once established, it can take a long time to escape a bad reputation, as Canada has when it comes to China.
It’s been decades in the making, with successive prime ministers seized by the perceived gains to be had from the world’s most populous market. The current prime minister famously expressed his enthusiasm for the one-party state’s “basic dictatorship.”
New electric car sales dropped 83% in the first month of 2023, according to figures from the German Motor Transport Authority. German authorities slashed subsidies in January, ostensibly to clamp down on resale fraud. However, new lows in the market may also be due to the viability of electric vehicles with current energy price hikes.
The number of electric cars purchased fell from 104,300 in December 2022 to 18,100 in January 2023, with a December surge caused by the end of the subsidy program. Electric car sales made up just 15% of all purchases in January compared to 55% the month before.
This is a dark hole that the Conservative leader is taking his party down. Threats and even attacks on journalists are on the rise in many countries.
A universal tool of demagogues is to demonize and threaten journalists. It’s an effective tactic, especially when aligned with a parallel campaign to create their own controlled media.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been revealed by Florida media and Harvard’s Neiman School as the latest threat to an independent media, seeking legislation to intimidate independent journalists by setting minimal requirements to suing them for libel.
