Canada

Auto Added by WPeMatico

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign, with headquarters in Berlin and Toronto

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Canada, Digital Marketing, Europe, Merge and Acquisition, SEO Tips, Technology /

“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gomez, Cohere’s chief executive. Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement, the companies said in their announcement on 16 September. The deal follows the planned combination they announced in April. It […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign, with headquarters in Berlin and Toronto Read More »

Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs

Amazon, Business, Canada, Digital Marketing, SEO Tips, Technology /

Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every year, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. One of the more striking details is a March planning document recording that Amazon shifted some Canadian direct-import sourcing away from the United States and […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs Read More »

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions

Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Digital Marketing, SEO Tips, Technology /

Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children’s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Université Laval, […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions Read More »

Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance

Business, Canada, Digital Marketing, SEO Tips, Technology /

TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, the employees did what most people do when handed […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance Read More »

Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first

Australia, Canada, Defence, Digital Marketing, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see thousands of kilometres past the curve of the Earth, and for all that time it kept the technology to itself. On Sunday it sold it abroad for the first time. Canada agreed to […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first Read More »

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn to build a one-stop rival to Stripe

Canada, Digital Marketing, Fintech and ecommerce, Investors and funding, SEO Tips, Technology, United States /

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn, a bet that the way to take on Stripe is to own every step of a payment, not just one. The Canadian firm will pay $7.40 a share in cash for Payoneer, the cross-border specialist listed on Nasdaq, in a deal both boards have approved. It ends Payoneer’s roughly […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn to build a one-stop rival to Stripe Read More »

Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”

Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Digital Marketing, Government and policy, SEO Tips, Technology /

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland, Carney framed the suspension as a warning about systemic vulnerability rather […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk” Read More »

Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too

Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Digital Marketing, Government and policy, Meta, privacy, SEO Tips, Technology /

Canada has introduced a bill that would bar under-16s from social media and, in a twist that sets it apart from other countries, regulate AI chatbots in the same sweep. The Digital Safety Act, tabled on Wednesday, is the latest move in a global wave of governments cracking down on platforms over harm to children. […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too Read More »

An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI

Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Digital Marketing, Investors and funding, SEO Tips, Technology, United States /

Private equity buys companies, strips out costs, and flips them. A two-year-old startup called Beacon has raised hundreds of millions to do almost the opposite, and to let AI do the heavy lifting. Beacon, an “AI-native” holding company based in Toronto and San Francisco, said on Tuesday it had raised a $225mn Series C led […]

This story continues at The Next Web

An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI Read More »

Shopping Cart