Uber Eats Introduces AI Features to Menus and Food Discovery
Uber Eats is rolling out a set of AI-powered tools to improve how users find and choose food. The features include AI-generated food photos,…
Canada’s AI Safety Institute Pledges $1 Million to UK Counterpart
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI) has pledged $1 million CAD to support the UK AI Safety Institute. The funds will go…
Ceedar Turns Customers into Investors for AI Bookkeeping
Victoria start-up Ceedar has raised US $200K (about CA $275K) in seed funding led by Vancouver’s Metalab Ventures. What makes the round…
Canada’s robotic rehab future starts with a pencil and a mug
Researchers at Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) have turned everyday objects like pencils, mugs, and credit cards into tools for the…
York University Uses AI to Improve Liver Transplant Care
York University is advancing predictive healthcare with two AI projects backed by almost CA$2 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health…
Why Canada is spending big on a self-navigating lunar rover
Canada is backing autonomy in space. The Canadian Space Agency has awarded C$14.6 million in study contracts to Canadensys Aerospace, MDA…
911 Disruption from the North: Yukon-Born Hyper Raises US$6.3 Million to Reinvent Emergency Calls with AI
On 17 July 2025, Hyper—a start-up founded in Yukon and now based in Toronto—emerged from stealth with a US$6.3 million seed round. The company…
U.S. $70B AI and Energy Push Puts Pressure on Canada’s Innovation Agenda
Washington is preparing a major injection of funds into hard tech. U.S President, Donald Trump, unveiled a 70 billion-dollar package for…
Canada’s Oil Sands Automation Pushes Costs Below US Shale
Canada’s oil sands used to sit at the top of the global cost curve. A Reuters analysis puts average operating costs for core projects at 41 to…
Factory Sales Down 0.9 Per Cent, Clouding Canada’s Industrial Tech Outlook
Canadian manufacturing lost momentum in May 2025. Statistics Canada reports that factory sales fell 90 per cent to 68.7 billion dollars, the…