artificial intelligence

A Saskatchewan mail-in survey found 86.34% support youth social media limits for under-16s. The results now head to Ottawa as federal legislation advances.

CIBC said on August 20, 2026 that technology and artificial intelligence executive Prasanna Gopalakrishnan will join its Board of Directors effective September 1, 2026, bringing more than 30 years of leadership from ADP, Sky, Bank of America and Fidelity Investments.

TECHNATION’s second Cyber Intelligence Quarterly Brief, published 2 September 2026, warns that machine and agentic AI identities are multiplying faster than Canadian governance can supervise them, citing a Verizon 2026 finding of a 43 percent breach rate.

GE Appliances has deployed AI-equipped camera systems on assembly lines at its cooking appliance plant in Lafayette, Georgia, to flag production errors in real time ��� a practical example of how manufacturers are using computer vision for quality control and efficiency.

Canada will host its first Investment Summit in Toronto on September 14–15, 2026, with a stated goal of catalysing $1 trillion in investment over five years across clean energy, critical minerals, technology, and artificial intelligence.

OpenAI announced GPT-5 Turbo on August 5, 2025, citing significant improvements in context handling and multimodal capabilities. Here is a plain-language breakdown of what was confirmed, what was left unspecified, and why the release matters.

The U.S. Department of Defense has launched GenAI.mil, a secure generative AI portal for 3 million personnel that bundles ChatGPT Mil, Grok for Government, and Google Gemini, with 1.7 million users onboarded on day one.

Anthropic has agreed a new deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity from 2027, as run-rate revenue passes $30 billion and enterprise spending on Claude accelerates.

More than 100 technology, security and financial companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging governments and private industry to build coordinated defenses against AI-enabled cyber attacks.

Google’s legal AI platform, Apple’s push for on-device processing, Enflame’s Shanghai IPO, Anthropic’s market estimate, and new deployments in finance and Latin America point to an AI market maturing into specialized software and contested infrastructure.