7+ hour, 38+ min ago   (603+ words) The Montreal-based firm has 16 researchers on staff and has recruited star compute scientist Joelle Pineau as an advisor to the unit Vention, a Montreal-headquartered robotics firm, has set up a research lab focused on physical AI that will use the…...

23+ hour, 49+ min ago   (282+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom The U.S.-based Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI) will develop “precise, robust, and reusable methods” to put numbers onto the risks of the technology and spur ways of addressing them. Jacob Tsimerman, a University…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (242+ words) The venture capitalist and former Google executive will lead a new office that takes over running and buying technology for the federal government The federal government is creating a new agency to manage its technology infrastructure and purchases, and has…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (478+ words) Anthropic, Bell, Cohere, Google and Meta are among the 23 signatories of Ottawa’s accord that promises their compute facilities won’t raise power prices or waste water MARKHAM, Ont. — Many of the world’s biggest builders and buyers of AI compute have promised…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) The Toronto startup is aiming to track down metallic alloys that could become superconductors. Prominent Canadian tech executives have already invested in its hunt. Toronto-based Meissner has secured the backing of deep-tech executives like Dominion Dynamics CEO Eliot Pence and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (383+ words) The Logic’s readers are split on whether artificial intelligence tools should be integrated into K-12 education in Canada, despite the majority agreeing that today’s students will need to use AI in the future. The federal government’s national AI strategy focuses…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) Big businesses see sovereign AI as an edge—if they know what it is The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom Some 35 per cent of Canadian respondents to IDC’s survey of decision-makers at firms with over US$1 billion in annual…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1399+ words) It’s not enough for employees to be accessing AI tools. Enterprise AI adoption means making widespread cultural changes in the workplace and measuring impact closely. Simply handing employees AI tools won’t solve Canada’s productivity problem. Despite rising AI access across…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) The large language model, dubbed Thomson, will be an early test of whether domain-specific AI can compete with the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI Thomson Reuters has launched a custom AI model, Thomson, stepping up its push to establish itself…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (823+ words) Concerns over U.S. fiscal policy and a surge in AI-related borrowing are reshaping Canadian investors’ portfolios, economists say Canadian investors are shedding U.S. government bonds at a record pace, even as they pile into U.S. corporate debt to capitalize on the…...