Joe Castaldo
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 14
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Business Brief: A postcard from Canada’s largest AI and tech event (opens the original)
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Good morning. We attended Canada’s largest artificial intelligence and technology event, which showcased the strength of the domestic AI ecosystem. One theme at the event was how our country is trying to chart its own path in AI development as the U.S. and China vie for supremacy. Will it work? Oversight: Health Canada suspended the licence of the Grifols plasma collection site in Winnipeg where a young donor experienced heart problems that led to her death last year. Oil: South Bow’s CEO projec
Canada’s plan to counter the U.S. and China in AI is taking shape. Will it work? (opens the original)
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The biggest deal in the Canadian artificial intelligence sector started over coffee last fall in Frankfurt, when Cohere Inc. chief executive officer Aidan Gomez met informally with a small team from German company Aleph Alpha, including Ilhan Scheer, now its co-CEO. Both AI companies were considered darlings by their respective governments, homegrown competitors in a field dominated by U.S. tech giants. At the coffee shop, the group realized they also had a similar philosophy about AI developmen
Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit to get up to $300-million from Canada, Germany to expand safe AI development (opens the original)
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The Canadian and German governments are providing up to $300-million to a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio that is developing safe artificial-intelligence systems, as fears around the technology rise and leaders of top AI companies call for a co-ordinated slowdown on development. The Turing Award winner and professor at the Université de Montréal founded LawZero last year with close to US$30-million in philanthropic funding after he became concerned that powerful AI systems could be misused a
Cohere, Open Text to pitch Canadian-made AI agent tools to enterprises (opens the original)
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Cohere Inc. and Open Text Corp. are partnering to sell artificial intelligence tools to businesses and governments, as some companies are struggling to see a return from AI, while looking for alternatives to U.S. tech. The two Canadian companies are working together to power agents, which can access data and use other applications to carry out work. Technology from Open Text will surface relevant internal data to serve as context for Cohere’s AI models and North platform to complete tasks. “Agen
AI firms’ calls for co-ordinated slowdown amounts to ‘cartel’ behaviour, Cohere CEO says (opens the original)
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Cohere Inc. chief executive Aidan Gomez is criticizing calls from top leaders in artificial intelligence to slow the pace of development, writing that the proposed approach will entrench power with a Silicon Valley “cartel” and that companies are spreading “fear under the pretext of protecting the public.” Mr. Gomez, who co-founded the Toronto-based AI company in 2019, wrote in an essay published Sunday that there is a risk of tech giants authoring rules around safety and development without bro
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