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Taylor Brugh, Microsoft sustainability markets partnerships & ops lead, at Tuesday’s CoMotion Labs Climate Tech Incubator Demo Day, where the data center-focused program was announced. (CoMotion Photo) As public concern grows about the...
BetaKit ·
LawZero, the non-profit organization founded by Canadian Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, has secured $300 million CAD from the Canadian and German governments to help create “safe AI for humanity.” The startup, which is developing...
BetaKit ·
Cohere is one step closer to combining with its German peer Aleph Alpha to rival American competitors OpenAI and Anthropic. The news: At the ALL IN conference in Montréal on Wednesday, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez announced that his company...
BetaKit · · Medium severity
Leading researchers say that quantum computers will eventually be powerful enough to crack current encryption methods , making all kinds of sensitive company and personal data vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches. Though they disagreed...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Google Pixel Improper Authorization Vulnerability. Google Pixel devices contain an improper authorization vulnerability in the cellular modem. A logic error may allow an attacker to bypass permission checks and escalate privileges....
GeekWire ·
Taoran Wang, senior food scientist at Rebellyous Foods, displays a tray of experimental chicken patties. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Subscribe to Positive Charge : Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon Music , All Episodes More than 40...
BetaKit ·
Inside a sparkling new building in northern Etobicoke, on an otherwise well-worn and unassuming industrial street, the newest entrant in Canada’s space race is building the team and the rocket engine it needs to reach the stars. BetaKit...
GeekWire ·
An artist’s conception shows a mining operation on the moon, including harvesters and a solar power plant. (Interlune Illustration) Seattle-based Interlune has raised $5 million in fresh funding to support a business plan that involves...
GeekWire ·
Terry Myerson, Truveta’s co-founder and CEO, will retire at the end of September. (Truveta Photo) Terry Myerson , the former Microsoft executive who co-founded Truveta during the pandemic, growing it to 500 employees and a valuation of...
GeekWire ·
An aerial view of Orion, Helion Energy’s planned fusion plant being built in Malaga, Wash. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy on Tuesday said that it added $35 million to a funding round initially announced in June. The Everett, Wash.-based...
News – MeriTalk ·
Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Kirsten Davies issued new guidance establishing procedures for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software development as the Pentagon adapts its software practices for an...
News – MeriTalk ·
Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., said Tuesday that the federal government needs to take a more strategic approach to data center development. He said communities are increasingly bearing the costs of rapid growth without enough say in where...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Sept. 15 released final guidance to help federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) protect identity and...
BetaKit ·
As part of the Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) outlined how it will invest $1 billion of its broader $6 billion Defence Platform into defence tech startups and funds. The news: BDC has...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is moving its new security information and event management (SIEM) as a service (SIEMaaS) offering into expansion mode. Officials are working to scale the service across...
BetaKit ·
Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, a slew of homegrown financial institutions have pledged billions of dollars toward domestic infrastructure projects, with some making specific commitments to address a...
BetaKit ·
Millions in federal funding has trickled into the private sector as Farm Credit Canada (FCC) announced $150 million toward a new agri-food-focused venture capital fund spearheaded by Canadian entrepreneur and investor Arlene Dickinson....
GeekWire · · Medium severity
Pointing to recent security incidents where networked AI agents spontaneously formed “swarms” to hack computer systems, U.S. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) took to the Senate floor Monday to demand urgent federal guardrails and mandatory...
BetaKit ·
The Government of Canada plans to implement a new tax incentive that will allow businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of most new capital investments in the hopes of drawing in more foreign capital. The news: Prime Minister...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
AI investments are expected to help automate security operations and enhance identity and access management.
GeekWire ·
Neuramill co-founders Nick Khormaei (COO) and Nistha Mitra (CEO) at the Reindustrialize summit in Detroit. (Photo courtesy of Neuramill) When machinists with decades of experience retire, everything they know about how metal behaves...
GeekWire ·
Nuance Labs co-founders, from left, Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang. (YouTube screengrab) Nuance Labs , a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup developing a foundational AI model designed to perceive and respond to...
GeekWire ·
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Goldman Sachs is expanding its technology presence in the Seattle region, opening a new Bellevue engineering center that will accommodate more than 125 employees focused on artificial intelligence and...
CISA Alerts ·
Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and CISA, this interagency report provides federal agencies and cloud service providers with guidelines to protect the identity assertions, access tokens, and...
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based Radical Ventures has launched a “multi-billion-dollar” venture capital (VC) fund geared towards backing AI scaleups in Canada and abroad with a first close of “well over” $1 billion USD ($1.4 billion CAD). “Canada has...
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based Radical Ventures has launched a “multi-billion-dollar” venture capital (VC) fund geared towards backing AI scaleups in Canada and abroad with a first close of “well over” $1 billion USD ($1.4 billion CAD). “Canada has...
BetaKit ·
Calgary’s Thin Air Labs has reached a major milestone, the consulting firm announced on Tuesday, outlining that it has now secured more than $100 million in funding for startups through its Funding Catalyst service. Co-founded in 2019...
GeekWire ·
Two views of Agility Robotics’ new Digit 5, which is designed to work alongside people without safety barriers. (Agility Robotics Photo) Agility Robotics unveiled the next version of its Digit humanoid robot, which it says is designed...
GeekWire ·
BuyWander co-founders Jordan Allen, left, and Brock Kowalchuk. (BuyWander Photo) BuyWander , an auction-based online marketplace for returned and overstocked retail items, announced Tuesday that it has raised $21 million in a Series A...
BetaKit ·
An Ontario-based LegalTech platform streamlining real estate transactions is expanding into Alberta, the company announced Monday. Founded in London, Ont., Closer is a legaltech software platform that streamlines conveyancing—the legal...
GeekWire ·
“AI could be a great equalizer — or widen the gap,” Bill Gates writes in a new Gates Foundation report. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The Gates Foundation is pledging to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years on...
GeekWire ·
“You should tax things you want to discourage, like cigarettes, not jobs.” Microsoft’s Brad Smith at Monday’s launch of the Partnership for a Competitive Puget Sound, with former Gov. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Detroit, Cleveland...
News – MeriTalk ·
NASA is seeking proposals to advance the technology and infrastructure needed to explore the moon and establish a moon base in the lunar South Pole region. “NASA is accelerating the development of key technologies and closing critical...
News – MeriTalk ·
President Donald Trump on Sept. 14 pushed back against calls for additional federal regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that the government already has sufficient authority to address risks posed by the technology and...
BetaKit ·
When Visa Canada’s Chris Ferron asked the audience at the Canada FinTech Forum how many thought Canada matched its global peers on payments modernization, few hands were raised. To one of Canada’s biggest FinTech companies, seven years’...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that handles about 100,000 traveler conversations each month and resolves 96% of routine inquiries without human escalation, Salesforce said...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability. Cisco AsyncOS software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway (SEG) contains a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary...
GeekWire ·
Valve’s Steam Frame virtual reality gaming headset. (Valve Photo) In a sudden shadowdrop, Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software announced on Monday that it’s launched its new standalone virtual-reality headset the Steam Frame . 2025 as...
BetaKit ·
As Canada pitches itself to global investors this week, the CEO of the country’s AI champion thinks Canada has a potentially “extraordinary” role to play in data centre development. The news: In a conversation with Inovia Capital...
BetaKit ·
Three former leaders from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), OMERS, and Creative Destruction Lab are leading a new venture capital fund to find “the next generation of AI founders.” The news: Toronto- and London, UK-based VC...
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