App helps shoppers buy Canadian one barcode at a time

App helps shoppers buy Canadian one barcode at a time

Canada and the U.S. have avoided a trade war — for now. A 30-day armistice was reached before steep tariffs on imports came into effect in both countries. During the buildup, however, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Canadians to check item labels to ensure they purchase Canada-made products. A pair of Edmonton entrepreneurs, Matthew Suddaby and William Boytinck,…

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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic…

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