The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said there is "no indication" that AI agents breached government systems after Transluce identified OpenAI-style attempts to breach Library and Archives Canada, …
Astrus, a Khosla-backed startup, has raised new funding to automate analog chip design using reinforcement learning, targeting one of the biggest bottlenecks in chip design. The post With new funding,…
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…
Shopify has become OpenAI's first e-commerce partner through a ChatGPT Ads integration that lets merchants sync their storefronts and advertise directly inside ChatGPT in the US. The partnership marks…
Cohere and OpenText announced a partnership to build a Canadian agentic AI stack for enterprises, according to a Cohere VP speaking at ALL IN. The Cohere VP said the two companies are targeting a simi…
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said at the ALL IN conference in Montréal on Wednesday that the Toronto-based AI developer will not build its own chips, telling Bloomberg AI reporter Rachel Metz, "We don't wan…
Mila is negotiating new federal funding after being tasked with leading Canada's open-source AI file, with the backing described as "in the tens of millions" by Solomon. The funding is characterized a…
OpenAI managing director George Osborne said Canada is an "obvious place" for data centre development, praising the country's efforts to solicit international investment and boost AI adoption. The rem…
Mila and Mozilla announced plans to build open-source AI for businesses, a Canadian government-backed project that has received $5 million from Firefox maker Mozilla and $1 million from Hypertec. The …
AI-assisted coding has not changed what Canada's Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit rewards, according to Mat Rutishauser, Director of SR&ED West at Boast, who said co…
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…
The Terry Fox Research Institute has committed $25 million to 14 Canadian projects that will use its secure platform to analyze vast amounts of complex health data with AI. The funding supports AI-pow…
LawZero, the non-profit AI safety startup founded by Yoshua Bengio, has received $300 million in backing from Canada and Germany. LawZero will use the funding to establish a Berlin office and a Canadi…
Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative on Wednesday, offering free AI training to students, educators, and the Canadian public over the coming year as part of the country's National AI St…
Toronto Pearson Airport has deployed four biometric e-gates with Air Canada as part of a digital ID pilot aimed at expanding capacity from 47 million annual passengers to 65 million in the early 2030s…
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, accusing the AI company and its rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by racing to develop self-improving AI systems that humans…
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…
Montréal startup Onix has raised $5 million USD to build an AI library of health and wellness 'experts,' betting on small language models and growing demand for data privacy. The funding was announced…
Montréal-based Vention has opened a new physical AI research lab, led by director of physical AI Jimmy Li, to focus on long-term research and development for robotics and automated manufacturing. CEO …
BetaKit reports that the Smart Cities AI Challenge, one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada's largest AI and tech event ALL IN, will present urban challenges to Canadian AI startups. The ini…