Canada's ALL IN conference in Montréal drew its largest crowd yet, with Toronto AI developer Cohere reaching terms to join forces with Germany's Aleph Alpha to create a rival to US AI giants, and Cana…
Canada's AI and Innovation Minister Evan Solomon said the country is making "serious efforts" on AI safety and has committed $150 million to a non-profit, taking what he called a more pragmatic and pr…
Canada committed $150 million and Germany committed 100 million euros to a joint $300-million investment in Montreal-based AI safety non-profit LawZero, founded and led by Yoshua Bengio, to develop an…
Canadian AI Minister Evan Solomon announced up to $300 million in joint Canada-Germany investment in safe AI development by Yoshua Bengio's LawZero non-profit, alongside $50 million for Canada's AI Sa…
Canadian AI and digital innovation minister Evan Solomon said Wednesday at the ALL IN AI conference in Montréal that Canada's proposed digital technology super-regulator will have "teeth," including t…
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said at an AI conference in Montreal that failing to build AI capacity at home would force Canada to "rent" from its neighbours and follow their …
Canada agreed to adopt the U.S.-led Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies at the G20 summit in Chapel Hill, N.C., endorsing a light-touch approach to AI regulation, but experts say this alignm…
The Government of Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative on Wednesday, led by federal AI Minister Evan Solomon at Edmonton's Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), with a $13 mill…
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…
The Government of Canada launched a public consultation survey on AI transparency, announced Thursday by AI Minister Evan Solomon and open until Sept. 23. The survey seeks input from Canadians, busine…
At Mila's Indigenous AI Gathering in Montréal, AI minister Evan Solomon was gifted a sacred braid of sweetgrass by Mick Elliott, a Mila research fellow of the Okanese First Nation, who said the three …
Plans for a massive boom in AI data centre construction across Canada are sparking opposition from residents concerned about electricity, water, noise, and broader anxieties about AI. A government doc…
Siemens Canada is expanding its R&D hub in Saskatoon by 10,000 square feet to advance industrial AI for semiconductor development, bringing its presence at Innovation Saskatchewan Research and Technol…
Canada introduced Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to overhaul private-sector privacy laws for the first time in 25 years, recognizing privacy as a fundamental right and streng…
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 …
A Canadian government document prepared for Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon identifies more than 20 gigawatts of AI data centre projects under planning or development, a massive increase…
At the CHIPS NORTH Executive Summit, Canadian AI leaders urged the country to accelerate building sovereign AI infrastructure, including hardware, data centers, and compute access, to convert its rese…
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…