In last year’s third quarter, 1,312 Canadian businesses went bust, the most in any year’s third quarter, the Financial Post reported.
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VOLKSWAGEN, UNIONS REACH COMPROMISE TO KEEP PLANTS OPEN
After Volkswagen threatened to close as many as three German plants and dump “tens of thousands” of workers, the company and Germany’s largest union worked through 70 hours of dickering and produced a deal that promises to maintain an uneasy labor peace in the short term.
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EUROPE’S AUTO INDUSTRY SUPPLY CHAIN IS BLEEDING JOBS
Job losses doubled in 2024 to more than 30,000 among European companies supplying automakers with parts and components, data from the European Association of Automotive Suppliers shows.
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TOP TREND 2025: THE TRUMP CARD
Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s promise to pile stiff tariffs on all goods imported into the U.S. will, if carried out, crimp the world’s economic growth, according to a large majority of the more than 220 economists in the Eurozone, U.K., and U.S. surveyed by the Financial Times.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PRICING TARGETS WHAT YOU CAN PAY, HUMANOIDS GOING MAINSTREAM 2025, AND MAJOR OUTLET CONFIRMS “MIND-VASION”
Mass production of robots and AI agents—and massive new pressure on human workers—are set to happen in 2025.
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WHAT WE FORECAST IN EARLY 2023: NEW WSJ PIECE SAYS IP INFRINGEMENT SPELLS BIG PROBLEMS FOR AI
Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH
These past weeks have served as a cautionary tale that there are no corporate guardians or “saviors” of free speech rights.
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BOSTON START-UP ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL FUSION-BASED POWER PLANT
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a start-up founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it will build a commercial, fusion-based power plant in Virginia that is slated to begin producing electricity early in the next decade.
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TRICKING CANCER CELLS INTO BECOMING NORMAL AGAIN
Killing cancer cells with chemicals and radiation can be grueling for the patient and have nasty, long-lasting side effects. So what if you could persuade those same cancer cells just to be normal again?
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ARTIFICIAL NEURON WORKS AT LIGHT SPEED
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created an artificial neuron on a chip that uses a laser to fully mimic the functions of the neurons in our brains but does so a billion times faster.