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Sources: NOTUS founder Robert Allbritton has discussed taking advantage of WaPo's layoffs to significantly expand the outlet into a full-scale operation (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2026/poli…

Exclusive: Politico founder plots new Washington newspaper war
A damaged Washington Post could face a big new challenger.

New cases of syphilis in Alberta drop after introduction of rapid testing with immediate treatment:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/12/new-cases-syphilis-in-alberta-drop-after-introduction-of-rapid-testing-immediate-treatment.html

Danielle Smith
#alberta

Not a huge fan of David “LNG” Eby but I’m with him on this one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-alberta-separatist-group-treason-9.7071107?cmp=rss

B.C. premier doubles down on calling Alberta separatist movement seeking U.S. support 'treason' | CBC News
Calgary-based data analyst John Santos warns that that kind of language could push people toward separatism.

How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada via @… https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/03/

How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee
A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.

I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …

Trump’s Half-Baked Venezuela Takeover Is Bad News for Alberta:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/01/06/Trump-Venezuela-Takeover-Bad-News-Alberta/

Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-taps-forme…

Raskin probes DOJ after Apple, Google blocked ICE tracking app (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/raskin-probes-doj-after-apple-google-blocked-ice-tracking-app-00767914
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p59#a260206p59

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026

Exclusive: OpenAI in talks with Abu Dhabi’s G42 to create specialized ChatGPT version for UAE
Chatbot would be fine-tuned for government use to accommodate local language and speech restrictions.