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Ottawa’s AI transparency consultation closes Sept. 23. Its own discussion paper says most large Canadian firms lost profit to AI-powered fraud.

SOCAN filed a Federal Court claim against AI music generator Suno on Sept. 2, alleging outputs streamed in Canada replicate songs by its members.

Regina-based cluster commits up to $2.2M to AI for Ascochyta blight forecasting and LiDAR grain-bin scanning, as strobilurin resistance raises the stakes on spray timing.

Twenty-three AI, cloud and telecom companies have signed Canada’s Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, a federal framework that asks operators not to shift electricity costs onto other ratepayers. It carries no binding definitions and no penalties, and the AI minister says provinces are the ones who can add legislative teeth.

Dominion Dynamics’ $100M Series A is Canada’s largest defense-tech raise to date, a sign of where venture capital is flowing beyond the AI headlines.

Statistics Canada retired its AI-adoption survey days before Ottawa’s $3.5B AI for All programs mark three months, leaving no way to track their impact.

Xanadu’s new $195-million federal loan for a Toronto quantum computing hub is part of a nearly $300-million tab Canadian taxpayers have already picked up.

Meta’s Sturgeon County AI data centre starts up years before the dedicated power plants meant to supply it — a timing gap that’s already reshaping Alberta electricity prices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Generative AI First, it’s important to understand the distinction between AI and Generative AI. AI is…

Opinion: Substack CEO Chris Best has partnered with AI-detection tool Pangram to let users flag AI-generated posts, a move this column argues functions as surveillance and public shaming rather than protecting “writer authenticity.”