Murad Hemmadi
Reporter at The Logic
I cover economic and technology policy for @the_logic | @macleans @cdnzbiz before | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi
TORONTO — Bell is getting into the AI data centre business with six new facilities in British Columbia, as it seeks to capitalize on growing business demand and government support for computing capacity in Canada. The telecommunications giant will lease space in the buildings to cloud service providers, government departments and businesses to run their AI hardware. Bell itself will operate the data centres, providing power, cooling, fibre connections and cybersecurity.
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thelogic.co | David Reevely |Murad Hemmadi
OTTAWA and TORONTO — The federal government’s translation bureau is rushing to devise an AI-based tool for public servants after being spooked by the use of free services on potentially sensitive materials. “Industry is moving at lightning speed and the bureau needs to accelerate the cadence to transform its services,” says a presentation deck produced by the bureau last December, which The Logic obtained through an access-to-information request.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi
TORONTO — Cohere is asking a U.S. court to toss out a copyright lawsuit brought against it by major media companies, claiming the publishers manipulated its AI tools to generate misleading examples. Toronto Star Newspapers, Vox Media and Condé Nast are among the media companies that sued the Toronto-based firm in the Southern District of New York in February.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi
Examples of such centralized control include calls to pause AI development, impose safety requirements and restrict computing power, which are driven by fear, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute chief scientific advisor Richard Sutton said at the organization’s conference in Edmonton on Thursday. He likened that to efforts to control populations, such as speech restrictions and tariffs.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi
BROMONT, QUE. — To run the $250-million machines that print the world’s most advanced semiconductors, chipmakers rely on an incredibly thin film produced in the woodlands of Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The film, called a “pellicle,” is made at a Teledyne Technologies plant in Bromont’s industrial zone. The city, an hour’s drive from Montreal, is key to Canada’s ambitions of capitalizing on America’s desire to reduce its reliance on Taiwanese semiconductors.
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