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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 Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute will develop and deploy Canada's National AI Literacy Initiative over the coming year, on programming modelled after courses it has offered publicly for the past decade.
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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 retaliation list covers close to 900 US products from September 8, and the paper line items point the price pressure north of the border rather than at American shelves. Fortune's own reporting on 2020 says the mills never stopped running.
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Canada has parked negotiations until at least the midterms. At 50% on $20bn to $28bn of exports, the duty accrues near a quarter of a billion dollars a week regardless.
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Washington's 50% duties on plywood, liquor and electrical equipment drew a matched Canadian package. The Canadian rates are still unpublished, and buyers have about 16 days.
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Washington's 50% duty on about $20 billion of Canadian goods is already live, and Ottawa's dollar-for-dollar answer starts Sept. 8. Neither side has scheduled a talk.
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Canada will answer 50% US tariffs on $20 billion of goods dollar for dollar from September 8. The two capitals cannot agree on who broke the talks, which removes the easy way back.
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Canada's AI for All strategy includes a National AI Literacy Initiative for postsecondary students and educators. One instructor argues fluency without accountability yields graduates who cannot defend their work.
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