Toast, a Calgary-based talent acquisition company, launched an AI-powered recruitment platform called Toast Talent Marketplace to help employers hire women for tech roles. The platform uses semantic A…
US finance app SoFi acquired Toronto-based FinTech startup Composer to add AI-powered investing strategies. The new tool allows SoFi's 14 million members to build, test, and automate investment strate…
Toronto-based AI startup Spellbook launched its Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) product on Tuesday, aiming to automate contract drafting, signing, and renewals for legal teams. The company, value…
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…
Ottawa-based defence tech company Dominion Dynamics raised $139 million CAD in Series A financing, led by Georgian with participation from Valor Equity Partners, OMERS Ventures, and others. The round,…
Cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with rapid AI adoption as employees use thousands of AI tools without organizational oversight, creating data security blind spots. Fortinet executive Rob…
Conexus Venture Capital, the investment arm of Saskatchewan's Conexus Credit Union, invested in Vancouver-based FinTech Judi.ai to scale its AI platform for small-business lending. The investment, fro…
Mecka AI, a physical AI startup based in Toronto and New York City, acquired Vancouver's Docula early this year to process petabytes of motion data for training robots. The acquisition brings Docula's…
Alistair Croll built Envoi, a virtual conference for AI agents, debuting at Startupfest next month. The platform is described as 'Moltbook, but a conference,' aiming to provide a dedicated space for A…
Sanctuary AI appointed board chair Daniel Friedmann as CEO, replacing interim CEO James Wells, who announced his departure as the company shifts to scaling its existing humanoid robot technology. Frie…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a warning about potential AI-powered cyber threats that could escalate into major operational crises, urging member nations to strengthen their cyber def…
Toronto-based FinTech firm Float Financial announced an $85-million CAD Series C round led by Inovia Capital to fuel geographic expansion and AI investment. The round values Float at $548 million, a 7…
Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI detection startup. The deal aims to create an "authenticity layer" for the internet, combining Superhuman's writing too…
Mount Sinai Health System in New York has adopted Signal 1's AI management platform to monitor and optimize its AI tools, marking a major partnership for the Toronto-based startup. The move comes as h…
Canadian medical AI startup Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech in Paris, beating dozens of international competitors. The company's AI platform uses Rama…
Canada has banned sophisticated deepfakes of political figures under Bill C-25, which amends the Canada Elections Act to prohibit creating or distributing AI-generated imitations likely to mislead vot…
Questrade has launched a custom indexing service, responding to demand for portfolio flexibility ahead of blockbuster IPOs from Anthropic and OpenAI.…
Toronto-based femtech startup June Health closed $2.4 million CAD in pre-seed financing from investors including Securian Canada and AgeTech Capital. The company will use the funds to invest in AI and…
Geoff and Sam Teehan, a father-son duo, aim to transform their AI side project—a viral colour memory game created through vibe-coding—into a sustainable gaming company.…
AI experts and policymakers, concerned that the US is not a good-faith actor on AI safety, are advocating for a middle-power coalition to set safety guardrails, with some suggesting Canada could lead …