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Miovision provides city traffic managers AI-enhanced data

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Miovision provides city traffic managers AI-enhanced data

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The traditional way to analyze city traffic is often time-consuming and tedious. But a Canadian company, Kitchener, Ont.-based Miovision, has launched a new tool that promises to do that job almost instantly.

MaRS panel explores Canada’s innovation struggles

A MaRS Discovery District panel last Thursday morning, that included leaders from Blue J, the Canadian Shield Institute, the University of Toronto, and North South Ventures, unpacked some of their biggest worries and suggested some possible antidotes.

Moonshot halts subscriptions as Kimi K3 strains capacity

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions after demand for its newly launched Kimi K3 model strained capacity, a bottleneck that comes as the company seeks fresh funding and prepares for a potential Hong Kong market IPO.

Big tech needs to justify AI spending as investors exit

After last week’s wipeout in chips and the broader selloff in technology stocks, pressure is building for the biggest spenders on artificial intelligence to justify their expenditures to beleaguered traders with increasingly itchy fingers hovering over their sell buttons.

Bond investors push back as AI debt approaches $570B

Bond demand is softening as AI’s buildout leans more heavily on credit markets. Read the numbers carefully. This isn't a looming crisis. The question is who ends up holding the risk. The clearest signal right now is the bond market.

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs

Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms. One estimate puts the number of vulnerable WordPress websites at tens of millions as of Monday.

QScreen AI deepens U.S. institutional pipeline, adds features

QScreen AI Inc. completed a tiered screening architecture at the core of its commercialization strategy. The architecture is fully implemented in the company's browser-based platform and is now being demonstrated to prospective institutional partners through its U.S. channel process.

3M and Microsoft's strategic partnership on data centres

3M and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership focused on AI data centres infrastructure and enterprise transformation. Microsoft's Azure Cloud and AI Infrastructure will become the first announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M's Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology.

Nonprofit Current AI is building an 'open' WWW with AI

A farmer in India takes a photo of a dying plant to research it on the internet but she doesn’t speak English. That’s the type of problem Current AI is trying to solve by building open, public AI infrastructure.

AI's next big breakthrough is looking pretty scary

More than a hundred protestors marched between the San Francisco headquarters of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI in July, calling for a pause on improvements to artificial intelligence. Their fears point to recursive self improvement, or AI that can develop itself.

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic copyright settlement

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

Amazon has a problem with counterfeits – this app's a fix

When Josh Pigford’s lawn trimmer died earlier this month doing yard work, a sense of dread quickly crept in. It wasn’t about the weeds left unattended. It was because he had to go on Amazon to scour for replacement parts.

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