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…
Canadian cybersecurity firms 1Password and Lastwall say no product could have prevented the OpenAI hack, as agentic threats drive innovation in the sector. The statement was made in a BetaKit article.…
Digital brokerage Questrade showcased chatbot-driven investing, research, and trading options at its summer product showcase, signaling a platform overhaul for an AI-driven investing market.…
Heidi, an Australian AI scribe company, reports that 46% of Canadian doctors now use AI for notetaking, 13 points above the global average, based on its Canadian Impact Report. Across five pilots with…
Lightspeed Commerce narrowed its net loss to $2.4 million USD and beat revenue expectations with $322 million USD in fiscal Q1, driven by AI product innovations. The Montréal-based tech firm's revenue…
Nearly every major Western AI company, including OpenAI, Google, and Cohere, signed an open letter posted by Nvidia's Jensen Huang supporting open-weight AI models, arguing they strengthen competition…
Cohere and Superwhisper announced a partnership on Wednesday to integrate Cohere's Transcribe model into Superwhisper's voice-to-text dictation app, creating an all-Canadian platform that runs locally…
Chrono Innovation, a Montréal-based software development agency, has launched Launchpad, an AI-powered platform that uses agents to slash project discovery and quoting from weeks to minutes, co-founde…
A new report by the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) examines how Alberta can build a nuclear energy workforce to power its growing data-centre industry, which is driven by AI …
Alberta's technology minister Nate Glubish told the Velocity Symposium that the province's growing use of AI is forcing government contractors to adapt or risk losing business, citing an example where…
Maple Scan founders have launched Liquid Interactive, a startup aiming to make visual media more interactive through AI, with backing from AXL.…
Ramp, the New York City-based FinTech company, has fully launched its AI-powered corporate expense management platform in Canada, making it available to all Canadian-headquartered businesses outside S…
Vena Solutions has agreed to acquire fellow Toronto startup Morpheo AI to deepen the agentic AI capabilities of its financial planning and analysis platform. The acquisition will combine Vena's FP&A s…
Jonathan Schaeffer, a former founder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), has launched Kind Local Pro (KLP) through his company Synsira Software, a privacy-first AI model that runs en…
Award-winning Canadian science-fiction author and tech activist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI' that people must be in charge of their technology, n…
Cohere has joined a coalition of Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Jensen Huang, in signing a letter supporting open-weight AI models, though Anthropic did not participate. The call for open-sour…
TravelAI, a Vancouver-based agentic travel referral platform, has purchased the brand name of Canadian-founded alternative lodging platform Sonder out of bankruptcy, acquiring Sonder's intellectual pr…
Canada’s Semiconductor Council is calling on the federal government to include a dedicated semiconductor plan in its national AI strategy, arguing that Canada needs a better approach to sovereign sili…
AI-native Canadian startups are outpacing their international peers in revenue growth and operational efficiency, according to a new report from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The study credits deep techn…
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…