Dubai-based physical AI startup Ahoy is relocating its R&D hub to Montréal, planning to hire 200 people for research, engineering, and go-to-market roles. The company, which develops AI infrastructure…
Alberta is investing $50 million into the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) over five years, announced by Premier Danielle Smith. The funding, drawn from five provincial ministries, aims t…
Canadian Minister Evan Solomon announced a $1 million grant to the Manitoba Construction Sector Council and $9 million in interest-free loans to five Manitoba companies for AI projects, including $5 m…
Federal AI Minister Evan Solomon explains why the Canadian government views AI as a foundational technology and emphasizes the need for sovereign digital alternatives, urging Canadians to adopt AI to …
ElevenLabs opened its first Canadian office in Toronto and appointed Max Lemmens as General Manager for Canada, aiming to double its 13-person Canadian workforce by the end of 2026. The voice-AI compa…
Scotiabank, Sun Life, Telus, and Lightworks have formed a consortium to build enterprise-level AI infrastructure in Canada, aiming to strengthen the country's competitive position in artificial intell…
Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government by releasing a series of white papers detailing how it used Claude and Gemini to upgrade government systems.…
Katalyze AI, co-founded by a former Sanofi leader and WFHomie co-founder, raised $10.5 million USD to deploy teams of AI agents that accelerate pharmaceutical drug development operations.…
Anthropic's AI model Fable is once again accessible to Canadian users after the US lifted a ban that was imposed due to a jailbreak exploit. The company noted that the same vulnerability affected othe…
On June 12, 2026, a US export-control directive forced Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for non-US-national users globally, including foreign employees, until the restriction wa…
Canada's AI Minister Evan Solomon said Ottawa may take a lead role in investment rounds for Canadian AI companies, citing a lack of lead investors. The federal government has established a $500 millio…
Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon announced on The BetaKit Podcast that the federal government is considering leading investment rounds in artificial intelligence companies, signaling a shift from sup…
Canada's AI Minister Evan Solomon discussed the country's AI strategy, digital sovereignty, and social media regulation in a BetaKit Podcast interview, emphasizing the need for domestic innovation and…
Toast, a Calgary-based talent acquisition company, launched an AI-powered recruitment platform called Toast Talent Marketplace to help employers hire women for tech roles. The platform uses semantic A…
The Vector Institute released UnBias-Plus on June 30, 2026, a free toolkit that detects, explains, and rewrites biased language in written content and AI training datasets. The toolkit features multi-…
Cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with rapid AI adoption as employees use thousands of AI tools without organizational oversight, creating data security blind spots. Fortinet executive Rob…
Conexus Venture Capital, the investment arm of Saskatchewan's Conexus Credit Union, invested in Vancouver-based FinTech Judi.ai to scale its AI platform for small-business lending. The investment, fro…
Mecka AI, a physical AI startup based in Toronto and New York City, acquired Vancouver's Docula early this year to process petabytes of motion data for training robots. The acquisition brings Docula's…
Alistair Croll launched Envoi, a virtual conference platform where attendees bring personal AI agents to a mirrored event environment, debuting at Startupfest in Montreal in July 2026. The platform, d…
Alistair Croll built Envoi, a virtual conference for AI agents, debuting at Startupfest next month. The platform is described as 'Moltbook, but a conference,' aiming to provide a dedicated space for A…