The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A curated Canadian edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
What to know about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, reshaping business operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation across sectors globally and in Australasia. From the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity threats and the adoption of AI in cloud infrastructure to the integration of generative AI in customer service, marketing, and financial sectors, this dynamic field demands close attention.
Experts emphasise the critical role of robust data management and infrastructure in successfully leveraging AI technologies, while organisations face challenges including skill gaps, ethical considerations, and regulatory developments. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must balance innovation with security, sustainability, and human-centric strategies to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Readers exploring this tag will gain insights into the latest AI trends, practical applications, organisational strategies, technological advancements, and the collaborative efforts shaping the future of AI. Understanding these developments is essential for anyone interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on business, technology, and society.
Canadian Artificial Intelligence News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Capital One CTO on the drive to expand talent in Canada
Broader project work across Canada and the US is helping Capital One retain engineers amid fierce competition for tech talent.
Canadian firms warned of AI risks to financial data
Business leaders say AI is shortening response windows, exposing staff errors and forcing boards to tighten cyber controls across Canada.
TD expands agentic AI into mortgage funding operations
The bank expects the new tools to double colleague productivity in early funding and discharge checks, while staff keep final oversight.
Kyndryl VP: Canadian firms face barriers to modernising for AI
Kyndryl's Umair Dinarwala says Canadian firms have the ambition to modernise, but budgets, resistance to change and capacity hold them back.
Virtual Hallway launches AI tool for Canadian clinicians
Free access to evidence-based answers could speed decisions for Canadian frontline clinicians as Virtual Hallway widens its specialist network with AI.
Zoho Canada expands vertical approach in municipal government
Zoho Canada's Gary Yorke says municipalities need departments to share a directory and data infrastructure to make AI work for residents.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Artificial Intelligence
Fortinet: The AI challenge is visibility and control, not permission
AI pricing puts software firms under margin pressure
Omnissa launches AI tools as endpoint use surges 1,000%
Reco raises USD $55 million as AI agent security grows
AI agents in IT service management and cloud operations
Featured News
Capital One CTO on the drive to expand talent in Canada
Broader project work across Canada and the US is helping Capital One retain engineers amid fierce competition for tech talent.
Kyndryl VP: Canadian firms face barriers to modernising for AI
Kyndryl's Umair Dinarwala says Canadian firms have the ambition to modernise, but budgets, resistance to change and capacity hold them back.
Zoho Canada expands vertical approach in municipal government
Zoho Canada's Gary Yorke says municipalities need departments to share a directory and data infrastructure to make AI work for residents.
How Harvey AI's next generation deals with Canadian data
Canadian law firms can keep client files walled off, while choosing data storage and processing become key topic for AI in law.
Pick 'n' mix needed for Canada AI infrastructure: NRTH panel
Canada should focus on the AI infrastructure pieces that matter most, executives say, rather than insisting every link in the supply chain be domestic.
Interview: Cloudera says open-ended AI spending is over
Enterprises are now demanding proof of value and tighter controls as AI budgets face scrutiny over compute costs and deployment choices.
Exclusive: ABBYY says AI build costs will drive buying
Enterprises could cut AI spend by up to 80% by shifting document workflows away from custom builds and into standard platforms.
Elevate CEO: Canada at turning point ahead of festival
Toronto's AI talent pool is drawing more U.S. firms, but festival organisers say Canada must now keep its startups from leaving.
Exclusive: ABBYY brings zero-shot document AI to Vantage
Enterprises can now extract data from unseen document types without templates, as ABBYY rolls out zero-shot capabilities in Vantage.
The internet times are a'changing Fastly
Bot traffic is forcing Fastly to adapt its edge cloud tools as publishers and AI firms battle over caching, access and data protection.
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Kyndryl Canada head on sovereign strategy in post-Mythos era
Brian Medeiros says frontier AI models like Mythos are driving clients to accelerate security-led modernisation.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Reviews
Expert Columns
AI moves fast: are you training your people to use it wisely?
Small but mighty - micro data centres are the foundation of security and disaster recovery
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
Designing for data sovereignty: Building architectures that keep control where it belongs
AI in Retail is Only as Good as its Data Foundation
AI will cost some jobs. Poor change management will cost more
From Clean to Trusted: Rethinking Healthcare Data Quality
Seven Cyber Controls Businesses Can No Longer Afford to Overlook
SOCtoberfest Kickoff: The 7 Deadly Sins of Cybersecurity Meet CISA's Core Steps
Why AI-Written Phishing Is Outpacing the Native Filters Built to Stop It
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Artificial Intelligence News
Boomi buys Elementary Data to boost AI reliability
The acquisition gives enterprises extra controls to stop bad data from skewing AI outputs and automated actions at scale.
Hospital network blocks patient data sent to AI tools
Hundreds of attempted uploads were stopped after the network installed endpoint controls to keep patient records out of public AI tools.
Microsoft expands Project Perception to police AI agents
Growing use of AI agents in corporate systems is creating a new internal risk category, prompting tighter real-time oversight from security teams.
Pax8 launches AI tools for small business partners
Small business channel partners can now govern unsanctioned AI use and offer a managed coworker service as adoption outpaces formal oversight.
GTIA launches managed intelligence alliance for SMB AI
SMBs could get more secure AI services as GTIA sets common standards to help channel partners turn demand into governed offerings.
IT leaders split over AI's role in production fixes
Most IT leaders trust AI to investigate incidents, but only half are willing to let it make production changes, a survey found.
Zendesk launches AI tools to automate employee support
Early users have already run 6 million workflows in five weeks, as the software group pushes deeper into employee support automation.
Developers say AI use is driven by management pressure
Management pressure is pushing many developers to use AI to signal compliance, with 52% saying they overuse it to meet company expectations.
Vercel AI spending soars as customers switch models
Costs per token have dropped 47% since December even as businesses route far more AI traffic through Vercel's gateway and switch providers more often.
Cloudflare & OpenAI pilot indexes millions of pages
The pilot could improve ChatGPT answers on niche queries by helping OpenAI discover and index hundreds of millions of previously unseen pages.
Secure.com says ransomware budgets should fix basics first
Most attacks still start with weak credentials, unpatched systems or phishing, so the firm says budgets should shore up basics before AI fears.
Incorta launches governed data tools for analytics & AI
Businesses will be able to build data pipelines in a governed environment, as Incorta seeks to cut tool sprawl and reduce AI errors.
React warns AI must not replace management training
As employers roll out AI across the workplace, React says managers still need live practice to handle difficult conversations with judgement and empathy.
Kotter launches AI accelerator to boost business value
Many large firms are struggling to turn AI spending into measurable returns, leaving executives with fragmented projects and unclear priorities.
Gresham launches AI tool to speed up reconciliations
Banks could cut reconciliation setup time sharply as Gresham's new AI interface lets business users build controls without specialist support.
Ledger launches Atom security device for AI & crypto
It is aimed at people approving payments, identities and AI tasks on mobiles, with hardware controls designed to block spyware and mistakes.
Datadog launches Scout 1.0 for production issue checks
Lower inference costs could let engineers run automated incident checks more often, as Datadog tests Scout 1.0 on real production alerts.
Proofpoint to buy Varonis in USD $6.3 billion deal
Varonis shareholders will receive USD $49.75 a share in cash, valuing the data security group at a 52% premium and taking it private.
Mitsubishi Heavy & Ingeteam team up on US data centres
Rising AI electricity demand is pushing US data centre operators to seek more reliable power systems as the firms plan broader integration work.
Tanium joins Microsoft AI security preview for MDASH
The limited preview could help uncover more complex vulnerabilities in Tanium's code, as Microsoft tests MDASH with a small group of partners.
