Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on 'recursive' technology until safeguards exist - CNBC

With parliament reconvened, one piece of legislation on our radar is Bill C-28, the Canadian Space Launch Act, which was in second reading in April before the House took its summer break. In the meantime, more than two years after Ottawa announced that “substantive negotiations” on a Technology Safeguards Agreement with the U. S had been completed, the agreement remains unsigned. Bill C-28 would amend the Aeronautics Act to give Canada its first dedicated legal framework for rocket launches and re-entries, covering permits, the certification of launch sites, liability and indemnification, and zoning around spaceports. Transport Canada has authorized launches case by case under an interim regime since 2023. Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon, who as Government House Leader also sets the order in which the House takes up government bills, opened second-reading debate on April 28 by telling MPs that Canada is “the only G7 country without its own sovereign space launch and re-entry capabilities.”

Commissioner Adam Silver says the NBA could begin using a new "smart ball" in games as soon as next year, potentially transforming how officials make calls.