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A multimillion-dollar settlement has been approved in a class action claim involving Canadian customers of the 23andMe genetic testing company who were affected by a past data breach. Source link

The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average all sank in early trading, a day after Wall Street’s worst drop since the conflict with Iran started. Source link

In their lawsuit, Anthropic accused the government of violating its rights when U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk. The judge’s decision is the latest in the saga between the AI company and the government over how Anthropic’s technology can be used for defence purposes. Source link

A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.’s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers ‌and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company. Source link

Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration. Source link

Stocks fell sharply on Thursday, and oil prices rose as doubt took over from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Source link

As of December, TD initially forecasted a 9.3 per cent year-over-year gain in home sales for 2026 as well as a 4.1 per cent increase in average home prices. The report says pent-up demand is taking longer than expected to return, but projects sales will rebound in 2027. Source link

The Diavik diamond mine has been operating for decades, producing more than 150 million carats of diamonds. Not all of its workers are from the North, but at least some of those who’ve come up say they want to stay. Source link

Tech journalist Karen Hao, who once worked in Silicon Valley as an engineer, is sounding the alarm on holding AI giants accountable. She argues people need to push back against massive companies that are ‘consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics’ as well as our lives and […]

The EU accused Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos of breaching rules by letting children access pornographic content on their ‌sites. Companies can be fined as much as six per cent of their global annual turnover if found guilty of Digital Services ⁠Act breaches. Source link