Harvard Kennedy School professor Bruce Schneier advises using the 'work vs. gym' distinction to decide whether to use AI for a task, arguing that AI should assist with output-focused work but not with…
Bruce Schneier, a public policy lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Toronto's Munk School, argues that students who use AI to complete writing assignments are wasting their tuitio…
Petals, an open-source distributed inference system, now supports Llama 3.1 models with up to 405 billion parameters, allowing users to run large language models across a volunteer network of consumer…
A guest post by University of Toronto economics professor Joshua Gans, published as part of EIG's American Worker Project, examines the economic implications of Dario Amodei's 2026 remark that automat…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist whose foundational work on neural networks and deep learning underpins modern artificial intelligence, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics join…
Anthropic announced Tuesday it is committing $10 million CAD to fund research into beneficial and responsible AI applications through partnerships with Canadian institutions including Amii, Mila, the …
AI-powered attacks are automating entire attack chains, including lateral movement via LLM-powered agents, drastically reducing the time from initial access to deep compromise, according to reports fr…
More than 200 economists, AI researchers and technology leaders, including 16 Nobel laureates, warned that artificial intelligence could trigger an economic upheaval larger than the Industrial Revolut…
A University of Toronto study of over 9,000 job postings found that using 'genius' language like 'visionary' and 'unique' in creative job ads deters top talent, while 'explorer' language such as 'curi…
A blog owner is blocking old browser versions to combat high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training, causing feed readers like Inoreader and Feedly to display error pages instead…
A University of Toronto student argues that declining enrollment in humanities majors is harming workforce soft skills, citing a 2025 NACE survey showing 96.1% of employers value communication but onl…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup relies on thousands of data workers in India, Cambodia, the Philippines, and other countries to power AI tools like sensor-fitted balls, real-time tracking, and AI-assisted off…
Physicist and blogger Tommaso Dorigo delivered the second plenary talk at the AI4X - Accelerate Conference 2026 in Singapore, arguing that fundamental science needs a phase transition where AI guides …
Researchers at the University of Toronto introduced a novel method to evaluate second-order social bias in large language models (LLMs), where models exhibit bias in their judgments about biased conte…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and scienc…
Author Cory Doctorow argues that generative AI should be viewed as a vernacular tool for amateur creators, not a replacement for professional work. Drawing on his own history as a programmer and digit…
BUZZ HPC, a subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, announced plans to build a CAD $3.5 billion AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area with 320 MW capacity to house over 100,000 GPUs. The facilit…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking s…
Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute, urged stronger Japan-Canada AI collaboration in an interview with Jiji Press, naming manufacturing, financial services, and li…
University of Toronto researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept adaptive AI worm that autonomously identifies and exploits known vulnerabilities across devices, achieving a 73.8% compromise rate in …