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The EU and Canada will consummate their expansive new partnership at a Montreal summit next month, Politico reported, furthering Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to shore up cooperation between the world’s “middle powers.” Brussels and Ottawa plan to reduce trade barriers and collaborate on supply chains and minerals projects. ...

OpenAI on Wednesday accused Moonshot of wide-scale distillation to improve its own models, as competition intensifies between Washington and Beijing to build the most advanced tech. Anthropic also warned that Chinese “AI tiger” Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 rivaled Claude Mythos in cyber and hacking abilities. China’s leading firms are still just approaching ...

Reed’s view While OpenAI’s new tool, dots, stole much of the spotlight at its annual developer day Tuesday, it was the change to its pricing tiers that says more about the company and the AI industry. OpenAI’s $200-per-month plan now comes with half the tokens. And there’s now an eye-popping ...

David’s view As they prepared for Republicans to drop another billion dollars of ads on their heads this summer, Democrats passed around fresh advice on gender politics. A memo from the Transgender Freedom Alliance, based on focus groups and polling in battleground states, warned that Democrats lost ground if they ...

Users have already found hidden features in the White House’s new America.gov AI chatbot. The bot, which was launched Tuesday with the goal of helping citizens navigate the government’s online bureaucracy, seems to come to life when users ask it to “play Minecraft,” the 3D sandbox video game. The bot ...

The Scoop Amputees in developing nations may hold the key to giving humanoid robots hands that actually work. Psyonic, a San Diego startup, wants to give people its bionic hands — and pay them — so it can capture data on how they grip, lift, and fold, with the ultimate ...

The Scoop Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz is joining David Ellison’s team at the combined Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount in a senior leadership role, a big poach for Ellison and a signal of more expansive ambitions from the combined studio. Kreiz’s remit and title haven’t yet been determined, according to people familiar ...

The News Singapore’s Temasek will open its first offices in the Gulf early next year, joining a growing list of global investors expanding into the region despite ongoing conflict. Temasek, which controls around $400 billion on behalf of the government of Singapore, will open offices in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. ...

The UK’s prime minister raised the specter of the country rejoining the EU, an issue that remains politically divisive despite growing numbers of voters voicing frustration over the lasting impacts of Brexit. Were Andy Burnham to support a campaign to reenter the bloc, he would draw a significant dividing line ...

Economists voiced growing alarm over France’s fiscal path, pointing to surging debt and high bond yields ahead of next year’s divisive elections. Paris — already grappling with debt equivalent to 119% of GDP — said it would sell a record amount of bonds next year, prompting the spread between French ...