The feds have launched the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, outlining how they plan to spend the $2 billion CAD for AI computing power in Budget 2024.| BetaKit
The United States enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in March 2018 to speed access to electronic information held by U.S.-based global providers that is critical to our foreign partners’ investigations of serious crime, ranging from terrorism and violent crime to sexual exploitation of children and cybercrime. | www.justice.gov
The Bell AI Fabric project aims to build at least four AI data centres in BC, which it says is the first “supercluster” of a planned national network.| BetaKit
As Calgary executes its new innovation strategy, it’s fighting to keep pace with demand for startup funding.| BetaKit
At Upper Bound in Edmonton, Canadian Turing Award winner Richard Sutton said humans should look at AI with “courage, pride, and a sense of adventure."| BetaKit
Carney continues tech-friendly agenda after naming first-ever minister in charge of AI| BetaKit
Steel cites "personal reasons" for departure as Montréal cleantech prepares to open first facility.| BetaKit