Alberta to invest $50 million into Amii over five years
Investment will be broken down across five provincial ministries.
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Assent makes first acquisition deal with purchase of German firm IPoint
Ottawa centaur says deal will help expand its supply-chain compliance platform.
Q&A: Minister Evan Solomon on why Ottawa wants Canadians to adopt AI
Federal AI minister on why AI is a foundational technology and why Canada needs sovereign digital alternatives.
Does Anthropic want to eat your business?
Plus: How AI chatbots are being tricked into smear marketing.
OpenText lays off two percent of its workforce
Roughly 400 global employees are now out of work, but OpenText says Canadian impact is “minimal.”
AI4Eyes sets its sights on faster dry eye diagnoses in Montréal clinics
Healthtech startup will start testing new tech as part of Quebec-backed medtech initiative.
Canada’s telco and banking incumbents form AI consortium
Scotiabank, Sun Life, Telus, and Lightworks team up to build AI infrastructure at the enterprise level.
ElevenLabs to open Toronto office and double Canadian headcount by end of 2026
Max Lemmens will lead AI voice startup’s expansion efforts as new Canadian GM.
Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government
Province releases series of white papers explaining how it used Claude, Gemini to upgrade government systems.
Descartes cruises into Latin America with acquisition of last-mile management platform Drivin
Waterloo-based logistics tech firm makes its 37th acquisition since 2016.
Paraito raises $2.65 million to automate grunt work for Québec notaries
Inovia-backed startup out of Montréal is using AI to speed up real estate title searches.
Katalyze AI thinks the future of pharma operations is teams of AI agents
WFHomie co-founder and former Sanofi leader close $10.5 million USD to speed drug development.
Canadians can once again access Anthropic’s Fable after US lifts ban
Anthropic says the jailbreak that prompted the contentious foreign-access ban worked on other AI models, as well.
Canada is building sovereign AI—now it needs to secure it
A former police investigator argues that AI security needs to be treated as a distinct discipline.
AI can be the First Spike of Canada’s digital age
Alex Tapscott on what the Canadian Pacific Railway teaches us about building Canada’s next great national projects.