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.
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Canada’s real-time rail system will launch this year after achieving “critical milestone”
After years of consultations and delays, finance minister approves the RTR system’s bylaw and rules.
Mortgage B-lender Haventree launches online bank
Schedule 1 Canadian bank now offers chequing-and-savings accounts and GICs.
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.
Scandium Canada acquires, rebrands ski-maker Ferreol Technologies
Ferreol’s alloys built high-performing skis. Scandium wants to use them to make spacecraft one day.
Hopper to pay $35 million USD to settle US FTC suit over “hidden fees”
US federal regulator says Montréal travel app’s previous tech unfairly charged customers.
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.
Telesat donates satellite capacity for Venezuela’s recovery efforts
Local telecom to use connectivity for communications and emergency response.
Vancouver Police sergeant becomes first Canadian ALS patient to receive Neuralink brain implant
Toronto’s University Health Network debuts new neurosurgical technique to insert Elon Musk-owned medical device.
AI minister says Ottawa considering taking the lead on AI investment rounds
Minister Evan Solomon spoke to the government’s shift from supporter to stakeholder on The BetaKit Podcast.
Stathera raises $55 million USD for semiconductor clock tech amid data centre boom
CEO says there’s “no reason” precision timing tech can’t be built in Canada.
US finance app SoFi acquires Composer to add AI investing strategies
Acquisition of Toronto FinTech bolsters SoFi’s case to be “the everything app for digital financial services.”
Vector Institute launches open-source AI bias detector
New tool aims to flag and rework biases in writing and AI datasets.