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Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements — and pay far more in fines on top of that — in a lawsuit that appears to be the first of its kind brought by a state against the largest abortion provider in the U.S.
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Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars

Canada’s annual inflation rate rose to 3.3 per cent in July, as economists warn the latest consumer price index report spells bad news for the Bank of Canada. The uptick in price growth comes after inflation tumbled to 2.8 per cent in June, falling within the Bank of Canada’s target range.
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As inflation jumps to 3.3 per cent in July, economists say uptick is bad news for BoC

Canadians’ spending habits and intentions for back-to-school are changing, a new survey by the Retail Council of Canada has found.
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Canadians want to spend less on back-to-school shopping this year, survey finds

Treating work as a religion has become the norm. If you don’t want to live this way, an author has some advice.
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Hustle culture’s not your fault. If you don’t want to live this way anymore, here’s what to do

The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Western sanctions weigh on energy exports and weaken demand for the national currency.
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Russia’s currency hits the lowest level since beginning of the war in Ukraine

Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers. The feature, which the company began testing earlier this year, is designed to help shoppers determine at a glance what other customers said about a product before they spend time reading through individual reviews.
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Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews

White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas.
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Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an afterthought

Forecasters anticipate this week’s consumer price index report to show inflation rose last month, signalling a reversal in progress after a year of steady declines in inflation.
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Economists expect rise in inflation as price-growth fight enters new phase

Even President Joe Biden has some regrets about the name of the Inflation Reduction Act: As the giant law turns 1 on Wednesday, it’s increasingly clear that immediately curbing prices wasn’t the point.
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Yes, U.S. inflation is down. No, the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t deserve the credit

The Opercule urban fish ram is the creation of David Dupaul-Chicoine and Nicolas Paquin, who met each other when they were studying aquaculture in college on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula. What began as an experiment raising fish in Dupaul-Chicoine’s garage has turned into a commercial operation that they expect will soon produce between 25 and 30 tonnes of Arctic char per year.
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Montreal urban fish farmers say their Arctic char cuts greenhouse gases and waste