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What Quantum Week???s keynote lineup says about the tech in 2026
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (855+ words) Could an experimental drug compound once studied as a diabetes treatment also fight deadly superbugs? In 2020, an AI model gave researchers a promising answer to that question, identifying halicin’s ability to kill bacteria, including strains resistant to other antibiotics. The…...
OnGuardAI launches app to flag scam calls in real time
4+ day, 13+ min ago (261+ words) As AI enables more and more scam calls, a Canadian startup is trying to prevent financial losses to bad actors over the phone in real time. Montréal- and Atlanta-based OnGuardAI launched a scam-protection app on Friday in the US to…...
U of C to lead creation of Canada???s first quantum defence innovation hub
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (207+ words) The federal government is investing more than $20 million over two years to develop Canada’s first secure, quantum-focused defence innovation hub in Calgary. The news: Speaking at the University of Calgary (U of C) today, Canada’s national defence minister, David McGuinty,…...
No product could have stopped OpenAI hack, Canadian cybersecurity firms say
2+ week, 6+ day ago (361+ words) When 1Password’s chief information security officer heard about a rogue OpenAI model hacking Hugging Face, he wasn’t totally surprised. “I think this was inevitable to a certain degree [based on] the capabilities that we’re seeing, and just the rapid change…...
An OpenAI model hacks Hugging Face
4+ week, 1+ day ago (633+ words) A rogue AI breaking containment sounds like a hackneyed science fiction trope. It’s also what an OpenAI model did last week. Your finance team has better things to do than chase receipts. Time is money. Ramp is a finance automation…...
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian institutions for AI research
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (267+ words) AI giant Anthropic is investing in Canadian research through partnerships with leading universities and the nation’s federally backed AI institutes. Across the universities, the company is providing credits for its widely used AI model, Claude, to support research and engineering....
Why cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with AI adoption
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (741+ words) Companies and employees alike are adopting AI tools faster than ever, leaving security teams scrambling to understand what is actually running across their own environment Robert May works on the systems meant to secure that movement of data. As Executive…...
Five Eyes alliance warns of potential AI-powered cyber threat “crises”
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (315+ words) Cybersecurity agencies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance are urging organizations to boost cyber defences, as rapidly advancing AI models prove adept at finding vulnerabilities. The news: Earlier this week, the Five Eyes, whose members include Canada, New Zealand, Australia,…...
Cybersecurity coding bootcamp aims to help Canadian veterans transition to tech jobs
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (303+ words) BetaKit Coding for Veterans (C4V) is hosting a two-day cybersecurity bootcamp this week in Toronto for current and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The news: Twenty students are joining forces in a computer lab at George Brown College…...
Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI?
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (433+ words) In case you missed the big news, the US government just ordered Anthropic to ban foreign access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. In response, Anthropic removed access to those models for everyone. “If your entire technology…...