Miner threat ⛏️ - A Canadian mining project is in peril, OpenAI gets sued over rogue AI agents.
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Miner threat ⛏️ - A Canadian mining project is in peril, OpenAI gets sued over rogue AI agents.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 20266 min
  • News bulletin
  • Business & money

Panama is considering reopening First Quantum Minerals’ Cobre Panama copper mine — but only long enough to fund its eventual closure — dealing a major blow to one of Canada’s largest miners and adding pressure to an already tight global copper supply. Plus, OpenAI is facing a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over its agents’ rogue cyberattack on Hugging Face, a case that could help determine who is legally responsible when autonomous AI systems break the law or cause harm. And in The Lab a new global study finds that infections caused 12% of all new cancer cases in 2024, highlighting how vaccin...

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Hey, Peak Pals, I'm Alex Blubenstein. And I am Jay Rosenthal. And what is this, Jay? Well this is your Peak Daily for Thursday, October 1st.

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Yay! 2026 where we cover the biggest stories in Canadian and global business, finance and tech all in less than 10 minutes. Yeah, Jay, it's officially spooky season and here is a spooky story for you.

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The government of Signipore has launched a dating app called First Date, and it's only for its public servants. I guess they're really worried that their bureaucrats are not finding love, so they have launched one to help them connect with one another.

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