Friday, October 16, 2026

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AI’s Speed Debate Takes Centre Stage at Dreamforce

The CEOs of Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic converged at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, bringing one of the tech industry’s most consequential debates directly onto its biggest enterprise stage. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen...

Why some punctual people fear being late — and why psychology does not support one universal explanation

Correction, 15 September 2026: The original headline presented fear of judgement as the usual explanation for chronic punctuality. The cited studies did not test that claim directly; the headline and framing now identify it as one hypothesis. There is a...

The Coalition will kill off Innovation Victoria’s VC fund and sell its 100 investments if they win the state election

The fund recently merged with LaunchVic to become Innovation Victoria, and most recently backed Melbourne IVF startup Gon Global’s $1.2m raise earlier this month. Liberal MP and Opposition finance spokesperson Bridget Vallence said winding up the fund and selling off...

The free AI Pathfinder program could help you launch your own startup

Pathfinder is run by the Small to Medium Enterprise Centre of AI (SMEC AI), an AI Adoption Centre delivered under the Australian Government’s AI Adopt program. It’s free, delivered online, and open to people already working in an industry...

Global Summit AI Vancouver Brings AI Leaders to UBC This Fall

Global Summit AI Vancouver is returning this fall with a two-day program focused on how artificial intelligence is being built, deployed and governed in the real world. Taking place November 2 and 3 at the UBC AMS Nest, Global Summit...

BryoSphere Secures Funding to Scale Moss-Grown Skincare Ingredients

Vancouver biotech startup BryoSphere Biotechnologies has secured new funding from OKGN WMAN to scale its production of plant-based ingredients for skincare products. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. The women-led company genetically engineers moss to produce bioactive ingredients inside...

Photonic Proposes Ambitious $500M Semiconductor Facility in Canada

Photonic has unveiled intentions to establish a multi-tenant semiconductor manufacturing facility in Canada. The Vancouver-based company has raised nearly $500 million in venture capital to develop commercial-scale quantum computers and quantum networks using its proprietary Entanglement First architecture. Entanglement First architecture...

In September 2026, University of Utah scientists using TROPOMI saw Western US forest fluorescence fade two years before bark-beetle mortality showed in aerial surveys.

A satellite instrument built to track air pollution has turned out to be a useful early-warning sensor for dying forests. In work covered on 13 September 2026 by Scienmag and published earlier that month by the University of Utah,...

Quote of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning...

A man cut me off in traffic last week, and I spent the next twenty minutes building a psychological profile of someone I had seen for roughly one second. He was selfish. He had probably always been selfish. Somewhere,...

Psychology suggests adults who frequently use emojis when they text often aren’t simply more playful — they may be unusually sensitive to the emotional...

Some people can’t send a three-word text without decorating it. “Running late 😬”. “Sounds good 🙌”. “Sorry about earlier 🥲”. It reads as padding, or as someone who never quite left school. The research points somewhere else. Frequent emoji use...
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Snakes, and their ladders

It confirmed the worst suspicions of embittered Australian startup founders and small business owners. We are an afterthought. We...
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