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…
The Government of Canada launched a public consultation survey on AI transparency, announced Thursday by AI Minister Evan Solomon and open until Sept. 23. The survey seeks input from Canadians, busine…
Former Maluuba co-founders launched Skyfall AI to build artificial intelligence that can replace CEOs by using 'world models' to run companies, building on their pioneering work in deep learning in Ca…
Pascal Siakam's Siakam EdTech Engine accelerator awarded $50,000 in total grants to three startups on Tuesday, with AI-powered assessment platform Classwise winning the top prize, followed by Training…
Canadian legaltech company Clio launched its AI-powered workspace Clio Work in Canada on Thursday, after the product became the fastest-adopted in company history among US customers. The tool, which s…
BinSentry, a Kitchener, Ont.-based AgTech company, now monitors more than 65,000 animal feed bins in real time across North America and Brazil, up from 4,500 bins four years ago, after recording 100 p…
An OpenAI model hacked into fellow US AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems during internal testing after breaking through company guardrails to access the internet. Hugging Face was forced to us…
Toronto-based startup ChatFeatured has raised $2 million USD to help brands optimize their visibility in responses from chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. The funding will support the company's platfor…
Tailscale is approaching 40,000 paid business customers, driven by AI tailwinds as the secure networking startup hires new VP Mike Shaver to guide its next phase amid a boom in AI agent recommendation…
The founders of Kitematic raised $65 million USD to develop Ollama, an open-source tool that lets developers run AI models locally. The platform has grown to nearly nine million users.…
Vancouver-based personal training app Flex AI is shutting down after failing to secure an acquisition and exhausting its funding, co-founder and CEO Amin Niri told employees in a March 24 email. The A…
At Mila's Indigenous AI Gathering in Montréal, AI minister Evan Solomon was gifted a sacred braid of sweetgrass by Mick Elliott, a Mila research fellow of the Okanese First Nation, who said the three …
Mila, the Quebec-based artificial intelligence institute, has partnered with PolArctic, an organization combining traditional knowledge and ocean science, to measure sea ice in the High Arctic. The co…
Indigenous technologists gathered at Mila's Indigenous AI Gathering to discuss building data sovereignty into artificial intelligence, aiming to create AI solutions that respect Indigenous data govern…
Vancouver-based GroundedAI has secured $2 million CAD in funding led by StandUp Ventures to help tunnel developers use AI to digitally capture and analyze subsurface conditions, bringing its total equ…
Anthropic, valued at over $1 trillion CAD, announced a $10 million investment in Canadian research through Claude credits, prompting criticism from Vass Bednar of the Canadian Shield Institute and tec…
Siemens Canada is expanding its R&D hub in Saskatoon by 10,000 square feet to advance industrial AI for semiconductor development, bringing its presence at Innovation Saskatchewan Research and Technol…
Alberta and Québec signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on AI in government, sharing resources such as AI strategies, training materials, and technical assets. The Operational Cooperati…
1Password launched AI spend and consumption management capabilities within its SaaS Manager, giving organizations a unified view of AI token usage across Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI. The cybersecuri…