Alberta tech leaders express concern over “short-sighted” provincial budget
Last week, Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) tabled its first budget. The party behind Premier Jason Kenney drafted…
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A|I: The AI Times – Quantum leap or quantum flop?
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the…
Element AI partners with Mozilla on R&D for data trusts, ethical AI projects
Montreal-based Element AI, is partnering with Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source web browser, to explore…
Despite rapid AI growth, CDL conference emphasizes need to move slow, “not break things”
Amid the exponential growth of artificial intelligence in both the fields of research and business, some in the industry are…
Google to continue collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo’s Quantum Benchmark
One day after Google revealed its research paper claiming quantum supremacy, Kitchener-Waterloo-based startup Quantum Benchmark…
MindBridge partnering with Bank of Canada to detect payment fraud
Ottawa-based MindBridge Analytics announced, on Wednesday, a partnership with the Bank of Canada that will see the FinTech…
A|I: The AI Times – AI, Asia, and the future of health care
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the…
Two Canadian startups receive grants from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility initiative
Two Canadian startups have been named grantees of Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility initiative, a $25 million, five year…
Chata Technologies raises $4.5 million, announces commercialization of new product
Calgary-based Chata Technologies, which has developed a cloud-based conversational application allowing users to access, search,…
A|I: The AI Times – Can AI own its inventions?
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the…
Vector Institute, U of T ‘redouble efforts,’ invest in new deep learning faculty
The Vector Institute, on Wednesday, announced plans to work with the University of Toronto to hire three new tenure-stream…
Techstars Montreal AI announces 10 companies selected for second cohort
The Techstars Montreal AI accelerator has announced the 10 startups joining its second cohort. The program officially began…
A|I: The AI Times – Honey, I shrunk the AI
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the…
BMO invests $5 million in U of T lab combining AI and the arts
This morning, BMO announced that it is making a $5 million investment in a new University of Toronto lab called the BMO Lab…
PwC Canada selects Calgary’s TerraHub for its blockchain delivery arm
TerraHub, a private blockchain and artificial intelligence startup based in Calgary, has been selected to act as the blockchain…