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Canadian federal cabinet minister responsible for artificial intelligence and digital innovation policy.
Canada added $500 million over five years to its Regional AI Initiative, taking total federal funding to $700 million. At the first tranche's average cost per project, that covers about 545 more projects, against a goal of 60% business adoption by 2034.
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The president told the UN General Assembly that all US documents will drop "artificial". CNET reports that no order has followed, so anyone drafting federal-facing text is weighing a speech against a settled technical definition.
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Both governments funded Yoshua Bengio's safe-by-design institute at Montreal's ALL IN, where Cohere agreed terms with Germany's Aleph Alpha and OpenAI's managing director called Canada an obvious place for a data centre.
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Mozilla put up the first $5 million and Hypertec added $1 million for first-year Canadian deployments on its own hardware. The published contracts are the part that would let anyone swap the pieces.
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LawZero, the Montreal non-profit Yoshua Bengio founded last year, says the two governments' grants will pay for staff and for the compute behind Scientist AI, whose first job is watching other models for harmful actions.
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The federal Responsible Data Centre Development Principles carry 23 signatures and no enforcement, which leaves the price of a Canadian siting decision to whichever province is collecting the levy and clearing the application queue.
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Ottawa's repayable contribution covers about 22 percent of Project OPTIMISM's C$893 million cost. The packaging work it is meant to bring onshore stays with contractors in other countries until Inception opens early next year.
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The money arrives as a repayable loan covering half of what Xanadu asked two governments for, and the other half is still a conversation with Ontario. What secures it is a packaging line with non-quantum buyers.
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