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Canada's government has released a much-anticipated national artificial intelligence strategy, mapping out how the country plans to adopt the new technology over the next decade. It comes amid broader public concerns over trust of AI and its impact on privacy, safety and future job security. Announcing the strategy, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the arrival of AI is inevitable. "It is already changing how we work, how we learn, and how we connect," he said.

Hundreds and hundreds of ships. But they're all in the wrong place. "Oh my goodness," says Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, a maritime AI company, as she checks the live positions broadcast by commercial vessels in waters off Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. "I'm up to… 35 different clusters," she says, looking at a map of the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding areas. The clusters she mentions are weird circles of icons layered over the map, with each icon representing a real ship.

The Chinese government is taking aim at an emotion that has become all too common on the country's internet: despondency. China's Cyberspace Administration launched a two-month campaign to curb social media posts that "excessively exaggerate negative and pessimistic sentiments".