AI
Canadian AI companies, research and compute.
- Daily Briefing
BioWare closes, Rogers adds a credit card fee, and Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion
The week in Canadian tech: EA shuts its Edmonton studio, Rogers bills get a 1.6% card fee, Ottawa details its VC money and proposes stablecoin rules.
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Dayforce buys Toronto's Ribbon AI, whose voice agent runs job interviews
The HR software giant, itself being taken private by Thoma Bravo, picks up a three-year-old startup that has run more than a million AI screening interviews.
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Canada's biggest publishers sue Anthropic, as Cape Breton pushes back on its data centre
Postmedia, Torstar, the Globe and The Canadian Press say Claude was built on their journalism without a licence. Meanwhile, thousands have signed a petition against the Nova Scotia project.
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Waymo is coming to Toronto, with driverless rides planned for 2028
The robotaxi company will map and test in Toronto first, learning snow, streetcars and cyclists before going driverless.
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Cohere moves to buy cybersecurity startup Aisle and launch Cohere Cyber
The Toronto AI company signed a letter of intent for Aisle, founded by ex-Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, to sell security tools to governments and businesses.
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Bell and Cohere build a Canadian AI model for hunting cyber threats
The domain-specific model, trained on Bell Cyber's data, goes inside Bell's security operations centre to speed up investigations.
