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Trudeau announces AI spending plan to bolster Canadian infrastructure, computing capacity and safety

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Trudeau announces AI spending plan to bolster Canadian infrastructure, computing capacity and safety

The federal government will spend $2.4-billion to bolster access to critical artificial intelligence infrastructure, build domestic computing capacity and create safeguards against the potential downsides of AI technology, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Sunday. The reveal was the latest in a series of near-daily pre-budget announcements, in which the government has been unveiling its …

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Trudeau unveils US$1.8 billion package for Canada’s AI sector

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Trudeau unveils US.8 billion package for Canada’s AI sector

Canada is launching a fund to boost its artificial intelligence sector and creating a new AI safety institute as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to roll out spending announcements in advance of a new budget. The government unveiled a C$2.4 billion (US$1.8 billion) package of measures related to artificial intelligence on Sunday. The centrepiece is …

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Feds, Québec commit $16 million to create an AI computing cluster in Laval

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Feds, Québec commit million to create an AI computing cluster in Laval

The funding follows recent calls to increase Canada’s AI computing power. The governments of Canada and Québec have earmarked $16 million to create an AI computing cluster at Université Laval.  The investment is intended to support the purchase of the computing infrastructure needed for Université Laval to host the Pan-Canadian AI Compute Environment (PAICE) …

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Can anyone control AI? – POLITICO

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Can anyone control AI? – POLITICO

Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister, argued that policing AI was akin to building a plane already in flight — inherently risky and difficult work. Harris trumpeted Washington’s efforts to address the dangers of AI through voluntary business agreements as the world’s gold standard. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, who was …

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Air Canada must pay refund promised by AI chatbot, tribunal rules

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Air Canada must pay refund promised by AI chatbot, tribunal rules

Air Canada must pay a Vancouver man a partial refund for his flight ticket that was promised by the site’s chatbot, a Canadian tribunal ruled Wednesday, in what could be a landmark case for the use of artificial intelligence in business. Jake Moffatt asked the airline’s artificial intelligence support chatbot whether the airline offered bereavement …

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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

LONDON (AP) — It’s not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call searches “googling” — its longtime dominance …

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Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE, UK and Canadian programming with fake AI news broadcast

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Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE, UK and Canadian programming with fake AI news broadcast

A group of hackers linked to Iran have interrupted BBC and a host of other European TV streaming services in Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Canada, Microsoft stated in a report earlier this month, noting a marked acceleration of Iranian cyber attacks since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The programming was interrupted with …

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Rogers customers report brief internet and television outage

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Rogers customers report brief internet and television outage

Open this photo in gallery: The Rogers Building, the green-topped corporate campus of Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications is seen in downtown Toronto, Ontario, July 14, 2022.CHRIS HELGREN/Reuters Thousands of Rogers Communications Inc. customers in Ontario briefly reported issues with their internet and television service on Thursday evening, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.ca. Downdetector, …

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