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Photonic proposes a $500M shared Canadian chip plant, 17 days after rival Xanadu signed a $195M federal deal for its own. Two models, one gap.

Cohere’s Aidan Gomez says the AI slowdown push by Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI is cartel behaviour. Canada, meanwhile, has had no binding AI law since 2025.

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez is opposing a proposal by leading U.S. AI labs to coordinate on the pace of development under an antitrust waiver, calling it a cartel. His essay also says he supports independent testing of advanced systems.

Bell Canada will add up to 900 megawatts of AI data centre capacity in Saskatchewan under a non-binding agreement announced Monday in Toronto, but has not named a single new project and says construction starts only once customers sign on.

Ottawa named six Canadian suppliers for up to $50 million in drone contracts. Its own backgrounder shows two of the six platforms are made in Britain.

Google will estimate Canadians’ ages from search and YouTube history. Canada’s own privacy guidance says age systems should not be built to find children.

Quebec City’s Micrologic raised $45 million from a labour fund and the province’s investment arm, but Quebec’s own digital sovereignty policy binds no one.

The U.S. took minority stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum for $100 million US each. Ottawa’s own equity fund exists, but it is scoped to AI, not quantum.

Apple’s Sept. 9 event brought Canadian pricing for the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and folding iPhone Duo, plus quiet price hikes of up to $450 on the iPhone 17 lineup the same day.

Ottawa launched its National AI Literacy Initiative in Edmonton on Wednesday, built around post-secondary campuses. StatCan data shows the adoption gap sits mostly off campus.