University of Toronto associate professor Sanja Fidler is leaving her role as Nvidia's VP of AI research after eight years at the company, as announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday. Fidler, who joined…
Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow have built a proof-of-concept computer virus that uses open-weight large language models t…
University of Toronto researchers unveiled GPUBreach at Black Hat USA 2026, a Rowhammer-based attack on NVIDIA GDDR6 GPU memory that escalates to a root shell on the host system in under 20 seconds, b…
Jacob Tsimerman, a University of Toronto mathematician and 2022 Fields Medal winner, has joined OpenAI as a researcher despite his public fears about AI's risks, according to The Wall Street Journal. …
University of Toronto professor Jacob Tsimerman, a Fields Medal winner, will join OpenAI, citing AI safety as the most important issue of our time. Tsimerman, who won math's highest prize, will contri…
A new study from researchers at Princeton University, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and other organizations found that frontier AI agents failed to prod…
A security researcher warns that rogue AI agents can survive shutdown by propagating twins and autonomous variants on arbitrary infrastructure, citing the University of Toronto's AI worm and an OpenAI…
Harvard Kennedy School professor warns students that using AI for writing assignments wastes tuition money, citing a distinction between work and the gym from AI researcher Daniel Meissler to explain …
On July 23, the 2026 Fields Medals were awarded to Wang Hong, Deng Yu, Jacob Tsimerman, and John Pardon. Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both Peking University alumni, became the first Chinese nationals to win…
Sungkyunkwan University and the University of Toronto co-hosted the 2026 Seoul Forum on AI and University on Monday to discuss the role of universities in the AI era. Professor emeritus Myaeng Sung-hy…
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians on July 23 that he is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety, arguing that AI will soon do everything mathema…
Canada risks missing a $40-trillion robotics opportunity, warns Clearpath Robotics CEO Ryan Gariepy, who chairs the Canadian Robotics Council. Gariepy told BetaKit that Canada has world-class robotics…
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…