The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said there is "no indication" that AI agents breached government systems after Transluce identified OpenAI-style attempts to breach Library and Archives Canada, …
Astrus, a Khosla-backed startup, has raised new funding to automate analog chip design using reinforcement learning, targeting one of the biggest bottlenecks in chip design. The post With new funding,…
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, accusing the AI company and its rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by racing to develop self-improving AI systems that humans…
Montréal startup Onix has raised $5 million USD to build an AI library of health and wellness 'experts,' betting on small language models and growing demand for data privacy. The funding was announced…
BetaKit reports that the Smart Cities AI Challenge, one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada's largest AI and tech event ALL IN, will present urban challenges to Canadian AI startups. The ini…
Saskatchewan's tech incubator, led by its executive director, is launching a program to help non-tech businesses adopt AI, aiming to encourage more companies to view themselves as tech companies. The …
SOCAN, Canada's non-profit music rights organization, filed a lawsuit in Canadian federal court on Wednesday against AI music generation platform Suno, accusing it of infringing the rights of more tha…
Canadian startups must consider how AI providers handle data, performance, and costs when building AI-enabled SaaS, according to BetaKit. The article emphasizes the importance of infrastructure choice…
Toronto is using Vancouver-based Clariti's AI software CivCheck to speed up building permit approvals by flagging mistakes in initial applications, according to BetaKit.…
Quoted Tech's Kevin Jia says 'chipflation' — rising AI chip costs — poses a more tangible threat to Canadian tech than a trade war, according to a Q&A published by BetaKit.…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude large language models, has posted job listings for a community engagement manager and a national compute lead, indicating plans to bring 'gigawatts of compu…
Air Transat will deploy StratosX's AI-powered software to reroute planes, crews, and passengers during operational disruptions, aiming to reduce the impact of flight delays and cancellations. The Mont…
Toronto-based AI startup Blueprint has raised $1.4 million CAD in funding, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), to develop a platform that enables users to turn text prompts into hardware prototypes,…
Toronto-based Kodeon has acquired Montréal mental wellness platform Breethe in its fourth and largest acquisition to date, with the deal closing earlier this month for an eight-figure sum consisting p…
NLPatent rebranded as Clerq on August 18 and launched an agentic AI platform for patent research workflows, introducing rapid invention-disclosure triage and full patentability reports with cited refe…
NLPatent, a Toronto-based AI patent search and drafting platform, has rebranded to Clerq to meet growing demand for patent automation as AI drives patent volume. CEO says the new platform will help cl…
Ontario opened a 30-day consultation on August 13 for a proposed framework that would require new large data centres, generally those above 1 MW, to obtain government approval before connecting to the…
Cory Doctorow, tech journalist and author of 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,' proposed that Canada repeal its 2012 anti-circumvention law Bill C-11 to allow jailbreaking American techno…
Fisent Technologies, a Toronto-based startup, raised $4.3 million USD to help enterprises automate AI use, as its revenue grew more than 200 percent last year amid the economy-wide rush to adopt AI.…
TetraGen Robotics, a Winnipeg-based autonomous welding robotics company, has raised $1.8 million CAD in an oversubscribed seed round led by Calgary's StepChange Capital, with participation from Vancou…