Community engagement 📢 - Anthropic sells Alberta on data centres, Fighting prediction market insider trading.

Anthropic is hiring in Canada as it looks to build AI data centres here, including an Alberta-based community engagement role meant to win over towns where residents are increasingly wary of the facilities’ costs, noise, emissions, and local impacts.

Plus, Canadian banks are tightening employee rules around prediction markets over fears finance workers could use insider information to bet on economic forecasts, financial indicators, and company outcomes.

And in The Big Picture: U.S. booze returns to Canadian shelves as trade talks progress, China’s Bilibili pushes into Western markets, Australia takes on big tech over news payments, and more.

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