3+ day, 21+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 13+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day 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, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ 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, 5+ 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, 5+ 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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (365+ words) The Claude maker is hiring local staff to lead data-centre development and community relations, starting in Alberta AI firm Anthropic is planning to source a significant amount of compute capacity in Canada, including from new data centres in Alberta. The…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (263+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom Toronto held third place for the second year in a row on the Commercial Real Estate Services (CBRE) ranking of the top 50 North American tech employment markets. Vancouver and Waterloo Region ranked ninth…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (556+ words) Toronto-based Veeda is building control systems for physical AI, and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, The Logic has learned TORONTO — A team of former Nvidia AI researchers led by renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler has launched a…...