October 2026

Ninety percent of Canadian CEOs say AI now runs across multiple workflows inside their companies, according to a recent survey. The same research found 43% of those AI initiatives delivered the return leaders expected. That leaves a lot of agentic AI sitting between a promising demo and a signed-off business case. Toronto is where a […]

Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today added Goal Oriented Agents to its platform, enabling businesses using them to define what a call has to accomplish, and providing two AI models that split the work of getting there. The new agents are aimed at a problem Regal says shows up in calls such

Tesla tycoon launched Grok project after criticising Christoper Nolan’s diverse casting for his Homeric blockbuster Elon Musk has released an AI-generated rival to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey after pledging to make a version “true to the art of Homer”. Having criticised the hit movie in the summer, the tycoon said he would use Grok Imagine

Edge Sound Research Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million in new funding to build audio infrastructure that isolates useful sounds and combines them with other sensor data to help physical AI systems understand what’s happening in real time. Stormbreaker Ventures led the round, bringing the company’s total funding to $9 million. When the

Maya Research has released Maya 2 Native, an open-weight text-to-speech model that generates speech in 12 languages, including 11 Indian languages and English. The model supports real-time audio streaming and voice cloning, allowing developers to build multilingual voice applications. The release gives developers access to a model that can generate speech, imitate a reference voice,

Setting aside the countless concerns you could raise over AI-generated movies, are they actually good enough to draw a crowd at the box office? The performance of China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film suggests not. The film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past,” is getting slaughtered at the domestic box office, raking in just $181,00 after being released

It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t Think back. Do you remember when Elon Musk, in a weird online tantrum, and without having seen the film, condemned the supposed wokery in

In Sunday’s edition of the New York Times, Marissa Mayer, former president and CEO of Yahoo, told her interviewer something so absurd it’s since gone viral.  Struggling with the “impossible task” of naming three things that she loves about her own 10 year old daughter, the New York Times reports, Mayer asked the AI assistant

Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude, faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over the alleged unauthorised use of 274 Elvis Presley songs to train its AI models. The lawsuit was filed on October 23 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alongside other entities and rights holders with interests in Presley’s

Ohio ranks No. 4 in the U.S. in terms of how many data centers it has, including this one in Springfield. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Data centers require enormous investments: land, buildings, computer equipment and power infrastructure. Yet, once they’re up and running, they tend to employ no more than a few dozen people in