The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns that frontier AI models could fundamentally reshape offensive cyber operations within months, urging business and political leaders to act now. The rare joint…
Two AI safety advocates described the federal government's new chatbot legislation as a 'good first step' on regulation but called for stronger and more comprehensive measures. The bill, part of Canad…
Despite fears that an expanded 48-team World Cup would lead to more lopsided matches, the first 24 games show a goal differential unchanged from the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Smaller teams like Cape V…
Canada's federal government unveiled a national AI strategy on June 4, structured around six pillars for scaling and securing the sector. Advocates in Saskatchewan, including Alex Fallon of Artificial…
Canada has banned sophisticated deepfakes of political figures under Bill C-25, which amends the Canada Elections Act to prohibit creating or distributing AI-generated imitations likely to mislead vot…
Instacart has begun rolling out an agentic AI assistant that builds personalized grocery carts from conversations, prompts, or uploaded photos, using live inventory from nearly 100,000 stores. The ass…
IEEE Quantum Week 2026 will host a workshop titled 'AI for Circuit Synthesis, Optimization, and Discovery' in Toronto, Canada, from September 13-18, 2026. The workshop focuses on applying artificial i…
A new Public First poll of 15 countries finds that majorities in 11 nations, including US allies Canada, Britain, and France, believe China leads the US in AI capability. However, trust in Chinese mod…
OpenAI expanded its self-serve Ads Manager to the U.K. in beta, making it the fifth market after the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and added cost-per-click (CPC) buying alongside CPM. The …
OpenAI has expanded its ChatGPT advertising pilot program to Korea, making it the sixth market to feature ads. Ads will appear only for free and Go tier adult users, while paid plan users remain ad-fr…
Google's accelerator program has supported 2,011 startups across 88 countries over a decade, achieving a 93% survival rate and a collective portfolio valuation of $135.1 billion. The program provides …
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at NATO allies on Thursday, announcing a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe that will depend on how fast they take responsibility for thei…
Canadian organizations temporarily lost access to Anthropic's AI models during an outage, highlighting risks of relying on foreign AI providers. Experts say the incident underscores Canada's underinve…
AI experts and policymakers, concerned that the US is not a good-faith actor on AI safety, are advocating for a middle-power coalition to set safety guardrails, with some suggesting Canada could lead …
Two 14-year-old boys in Edmonton, Alberta face criminal charges for using artificial intelligence to create sexual exploitation images of female classmates, marking Canada's second such prosecution in…
A new study reported by The Conversation finds that agrivoltaics—colocating solar panels with cropland—could generate enough electricity in Canada to eliminate fossil fuels from the national grid whil…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced a CAD $3.5 billion AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area, aiming to support Canada's goal of 850 MW of sovereign compute by 2030. The 320 MW facility, expected…
The G7 formally launched a Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance at the June 2026 summit in Évian, creating a cooperative platform to coordinate emergency responses and reduce dependenc…
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez warned G7 leaders that nations risk digital serfdom by relying on a few centralized AI providers, urging adoption of sovereign AI systems to maintain control over data, security…
The G7 leaders concluded their summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, with agreements on Iran, migration, AI in healthcare, and other issues. They backed the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, pledged to overhaul de…