Amii receives $9 million from feds to equip energy workers with AI skills
Funding comes on top of nearly $20 million pledged last year for sovereign compute.
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Feds back startup OCCAM’s Technologies as part of $21.5-million Alberta carbon capture investment
Natural Resources Canada selects five companies that responded to call for carbon capture proposals.
NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare
Rapidly growing healthtech startup has majority of its backing from Canadian investors.
Google allocates $13 million in funding to strengthen Canada’s AI workforce
First Nations Technology Council, Skills for Change, Toronto Public Library named as recipients alongside Amii.
Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada’s AI strategy requires customers
The head of Alberta’s AI institute talks literacy, adoption, and commercialization at Upper Bound.
Alberta’s tech sector is embracing an AI data centre boom. Will it pay off?
Tech leaders say energy-hungry infrastructure will catalyze startup creation, but critics warn of “oversold” benefits.…
Canada’s next innovation capital
Plus: BetaKit to open full-time Prairies bureau.
Richard Sutton warns against “centralized control” of AI regulation based on fear
At Upper Bound conference, Turing Award winner says human-like AI is “inevitable.”
Google grants Amii $5 million to help post-secondary schools develop AI curricula
Google and Amii hope driving AI education in Canada translates into adoption.
BetaKit to open full-time Prairies bureau
Expanded presence comes as Alberta sees increase in venture funding, interprovincial migration.
Alberta tech has energy
Plus: Robinhood scoops up WonderFi, Canadian VC has another tough quarter.
Long-life startup NiaHealth exits stealth with $2.5 million in pre-seed funding
Edmonton-based healthtech startup aims to reduce disease through preventative health testing.
Nanoprecise closes Series C to predict industrial equipment failures with AI
Edmonton startup nabs $36 million USD to bring its tech to Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa.
New Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls doomers “out of line,” talks path to human-like AI
Sutton joins Canadian peers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton in winning “Nobel Prize of computing.”
PrairiesCan doles out $6.7 million to help four Edmonton companies scale and expand into new markets
Levven Electronics, Care Group, Demir Engineering, and Grengine to benefit from latest federal funding.