Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. T…
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…
At Startupfest 2026 in Montréal, The BetaKit Podcast live panel discussed why startups fail and how AI can help or hinder success. Panelists included Johnathan Nightingale and Melissa Nightingale of R…
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…
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…
Anthropic committed $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions, including Amii, Mila, the Vector Institute, CHEO, CAMH, Université Laval, the University of Toronto, and the University of …
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 …
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…
The Vector Institute released UnBias-Plus on June 30, 2026, a free toolkit that detects, explains, and rewrites biased language in written content and AI training datasets. The toolkit features multi-…
The Vector Institute in Toronto released UnBias-Plus, an open-source tool that detects and rewrites biased language in text and AI training data, targeting biases related to race, gender, age, and pol…
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…
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…
Japan and Canada can collaborate more closely to accelerate real-world AI adoption, according to Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute. He identified manufacturing, …
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's AI for All strategy on June 4, directing more than $200 million CAD to the country's three national AI institutes and the Canadian AI Safety Institute. The…
Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have developed a proof-of-concept autonomous AI worm that uses a small, free large language model to ana…