Vercel's winter internship program at its San Francisco headquarters saw interns from the University of Waterloo ship features used by millions across the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, and AI Gat…
Google DeepMind released the code and weights for its WeatherNext Cyclones model on August 6, 2026, after the US National Hurricane Center used its guidance during the 2025 hurricane season. The model…
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the University of Alberta found that explicit monitoring cues do not enforce robust alignment in large reasoning models but instead trigger strategic de…
Skyfall AI, co-founded by former Microsoft AI leaders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman, plans to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and hand its operations to an AI s…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced plans for a 320 MW sovereign AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area through its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc., targeting deployment of over 10…
Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Waterloo introduced Locket, a feature-locking technique for large language models that enables pay-to-unlock schemes by restricting specific mod…
Liam Hebert, a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Waterloo, developed a deep-learning system that detects context-dependent hate speech by teaching models to distinguish when the s…
The Council of Ontario Universities released an AI Task Force report on May 29, 2026, calling for federal investments in sovereign AI research infrastructure and talent, provincial support for made-in…
Students in the Google-funded Futures Lab, a partnership with the University of Waterloo, have built working AI prototypes including an app that teaches Japanese through AI-generated stories, a real-t…