Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots

Another ally questions reliance on American AI Brandon Vigliarolo Brandon Vigliarolo Published thu // UTC We’re a month shy of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence, and another close ally has decided to celebrate , AI in particular. The Canadian government on Thursday announced a new "AI for All" national strategy that will see Ottawa direct CA$1 billion ($719 million) toward expanding AI adoption and supporting Canada's AI sector. The plan includes CA$500 million through an AI financing program to help small and medium-sized businesses adopt AI tools, and another CA$500 million to expand support for Canadian AI companies through the Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Prime Minister Mark Carney made clear one of the initiative's central goals: ensuring Canadians can build and use AI on Canadian terms. “AI is here. The question is whether it will improve the lives of all Canadians or benefit only a few,” Carney said in a press release. “AI can … make a small business more competitive, if it is governed a clear goal of improving the lives of all Canadians.”  In other words, we don’t want your OpenAIs and your Anthropics north of the border, especially when American tech comes with so much political baggage lately. Yet another ally pursues AI sovereignty While the Canadian government frontloaded its target of $200 billion in economic growth, a litany of new AI-related jobs, building trust in domestic AI, and other five-year goals to boost the country’s economy, one of the most noticeable parts of the announcement, and the plan itself, is its insistence on Canadian sovereignty.  “We will build the foundations of sovereign Canadian AI,” the announcement declared. Canada and its Sovereign Technology Alliance partners will have a tough road ahead of them if they intend to reduce their reliance on US tech companies. From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks. Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform. Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security Microsoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy. Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim Step into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation Ransomware attacks aren’t slowing down, and neither are we.