Monthly Archives: February 2026

Trump’s directive comes amid a feud ⁠between the Pentagon and top artificial ⁠intelligence lab Anthropic over concerns about how ⁠the ⁠military ​could use AI at war.

China said on Friday it would suspend some tariffs on Canadian agricultural products imposed during a trade spat between Beijing and Ottawa, after Canadian Prime Minister Mark ‌Carney struck an initial deal with Beijing during a visit in January.

Gross domestic product contracted ​at an annualized pace of 0.6 per cent in the quarter running from October to December, ​Statistics Canada said. The country’s overall growth for 2025 was 1.7 per cent — in line with Bank of Canada … Continue reading →

NASA officials are providing an update Friday on the upcoming Artemis II mission, which will see a crew — including a Canadian astronaut — make a lunar flyby.

Kendal Crawford and Shaun Stephens-Whal tell The National about the moment they taught their pet rats how to drive mini cars in Squamish, B.C.

Sunscreen manufacturers assign an precise SPF number using an imprecise method of lab testing, which could be giving Canadians a false sense of security when using sunscreen to protect themselves from the sun.

The sea lions were recently moved to the Vancouver Aquarium as part of Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums’ effort to find long-term homes for animals previously located at Marineland, the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont.

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot that was founded with a focus on safe technology, appears to be scaling back its safety commitments in order to keep the company competitive, after it amended a set of self-imposed guidelines … Continue reading →

A boom of investment in artificial intelligence has led to an unforeseen problem: a shortage of the world’s memory chip supply, which threatens to drive up the price of consumer electronics like laptops, smartphones and video game consoles.

Netflix on Thursday signaled it was backing away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio assets, saying ‌the deal was no longer financially attractive after Paramount Skydance revised its offer for the coveted Hollywood studio to … Continue reading →