11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (279+ words) announced Friday it will integrate content from major news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant...increasingly move to incorporate live web content and news feeds. Meta has had a hot and cold relationship with the news media over the years....

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (737+ words) MONTREAL — Canada’s traditional telecom companies are jockeying for a piece of the federal government’s push for “digital sovereignty” in AI. Among the thousands of business executives and tech specialists attending the All In Conference in Montreal on Wednesday was Mirko…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (899+ words) Artificial intelligence is helping developers to deliver homes more efficiently and more affordably About 20 years ago, many in the homebuilding industry were resisting certain technological advancements, recalls Taylor Rogers, the project director at real estate developer Dunpar Homes. It was…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (345+ words) DATA ON CENTRES There are data centres in about 179 countries (thanks, Google), but do we need them? They are massive, consume electricity, and use millions of gallons of water every day. They also consume the data that we generate – books,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (167+ words) AI IN THE ARENA This is the mark of a great place: It promotes peaceful cohabitation among all its residents, human and animal. I’m surprised that AI hasn’t figured out that it should team with local and national hockey arenas....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (154+ words) LEARNING CURVE Although AI (artificial intelligence) is helpful, there is a looming dark side. Remember, a long time ago, people used an abacus to calculate things. Later, paper and pens and even the slide rule were used for difficult calculations....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (545+ words) News Media Canada calls out federal AI strategy for ignoring content theft, while AI pioneer...there’s just so much that needs to be done.” Canada’s news publishers, however, said critical issues are still...culture, voices, and stories,” said Paul Deegan,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (364+ words) Fossil fuels are here to stay For about 50 years now, beginning with the environmental movement of the 1970s — with concerns about global warming, “peak oil” and Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance — many have mused about an “energy transition” to change…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (622+ words) The early stages of a potential plan to develop part of Hamilton’s industrial waterfront into an artificial intelligence data centre suffered a short circuit last week. Toronto-based Slate Asset Management, which bought approximately 800 acres of industrial land and buildings from…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (378+ words) The U.K.'s Financial Times slapped a disclaimer on a column by Prof. Ricardo Hausmann OTTAWA — Apparently even professors from America’s finest universities can’t be trusted to do their own homework. Ricardo Hausmann, a prominent economist and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy…...