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Canada’s 2 new senators include Nunavut’s first-ever MP

Canada’s 2 new senators include Nunavut’s first-ever MP

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced two new appointments to the Senate, including Nunavut’s first ever member of Parliament. Trudeau announced the appointments of Nancy Karetak-Lindell, who will fill Nunavut’s only Senate seat, and former Nova Scotia cabinet minister Allister Surette, on Thursday. The appointments are formally made by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon after recommendations…

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Manchin predicts Senate will go along with House on shutdown negotiations: “There’s not much fight left”

Manchin predicts Senate will go along with House on shutdown negotiations: “There’s not much fight left”

Sen. Joe Manchin, who’s leaving office next month, is predicting there won’t be a government shutdown, despite the uncertainty over a bill in the day before the deadline. He says whatever agreement House Republicans reach to fund the government, the Senate will “swallow hard,” support it and go home for the holidays.  However, he doesn’t…

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AI Crawlers Account For 28% Of Googlebot’s Traffic, Study Finds

AI Crawlers Account For 28% Of Googlebot’s Traffic, Study Finds

A report released by Vercel highlights the growing impact of AI bots in web crawling. OpenAI’s GPTBot and Anthropic’s Claude generate nearly 1 billion requests monthly across Vercel’s network. The data indicates that GPTBot made 569 million requests in the past month, while Claude accounted for 370 million. Additionally, PerplexityBot contributed 24.4 million fetches, and…

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