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Health Minister Mark Holland on Australia’s social media ban, AI and RFK Jr.
Health Minister Mark Holland says he's optimistic about the role artificial intelligence can play in Canada's health system, but says much of its promise will take time to realize. Holland says he exp...
Dec 19, 2024
Manitoba auditor general calls for better cybersecurity, financial reporting
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's auditor general is calling for better cybersecurity at the province's main health-care planning body, and better financial reporting from the provincial government. In the first ...
Dec 19, 2024
New Ontario Science Centre at Ontario Place to open in 2029, auditor general says
TORONTO - The timeline for opening a permanent new Ontario Science Centre appears to have been delayed, with infrastructure officials telling the auditor general's office the centre is expected to be ...
Dec 19, 2024
In tumultuous history of finance minister resignations, Freeland's exit stands out
Having a finance minister openly condemn the prime minister's policies on her way out is a fresh level of acrimony in Canadian political history, longtime observers of the country's politics say. Chry...
Dec 16, 2024 Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with reporters in Ottawa, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Geoffrey Hinton to donate some of Nobel winnings to create new annual award
The chairs of an annual science and technology conference say Nobel Prize recipient Geoffrey Hinton is donating some of his winnings to create a new award. They say of the Neural Information Processin...
Dec 13, 2024
LinkedIn pauses training AI models on Canadian user data: privacy commissioner
Canada's privacy commissioner says LinkedIn has paused training its artificial intelligence models on data from Canadian users. Philippe Dufresne says his office was informed of the pause by the tech ...
Dec 10, 2024
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton receives Nobel Prize in physics in proud moment for U of T
TORONTO - When Geoffrey Hinton strode across the Stockholm Concert Hall stage Tuesday to receive his Nobel Prize for physics from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, he was beaming. It has taken decades f...
Dec 10, 2024
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year
The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world - or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise then that the ...
Dec 08, 2024
Nobel recipient Geoffrey Hinton wishes he thought of AI safety sooner
Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn't regret the work he did that laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist often calle...
Dec 08, 2024
Toronto AI company Cohere to receive $240M from Ottawa to help get data centre built
TORONTO - Artificial intelligence firm Cohere will receive up to $240 million from the federal government to boost its computing capacity. The money headed for the Toronto company, which specializes i...
Dec 06, 2024
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