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- Canada’s Banks Need an AI Outage Plan, Not Just an AI Policy
Matthew Leo · August 31, 2026The FSB says frontier AI can amplify cyber risk and technology concentration. Canadian banks should test what still works when a critical AI provider cannot be …
- Frontier AI Is Now a Financial-System Cyber Risk
Matthew Leo · August 31, 2026The Financial Stability Board says frontier AI could change the speed and economics of cyberattacks. For Canadian finance, recovery speed now matters as much as…
- Flock’s Camera Backlash Is Becoming a Bipartisan Tech Problem
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Flock Safety’s license-plate camera backlash has become bipartisan as misuse cases and national data sharing raise questions about where public safety ends and …
- Nvidia Is Reportedly Closing In on Hugging Face
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Nvidia is reportedly pursuing Hugging Face at a valuation around $13 billion, but reports conflict on whether a deal is signed. The strategic stakes for open AI…
- Alibaba Is Raising $10.2B to Fund Its Full AI Stack
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Alibaba is raising about US$10.2 billion and says all net proceeds will fund chips, infrastructure, models and deployment across its full AI stack.
- AI Giants Say the Cyber Defence Window Is Closing
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026More than 100 major companies are warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become more capable and widespread, and they want governments and defenders to act b…
- Nvidia’s $96.2B Quarter Says the AI Buildout Isn’t Slowing
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Nvidia posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue and $89 billion from data centres, while signalling that the global AI infrastructure buildout still has years …
- Canada’s AI Transparency Plan Needs More Than Labels
Matthew Leo · August 12, 2026Canada is consulting on AI labels, incident reporting and agent tracking. The hard part is making transparency useful instead of turning it into another complia…
- GPT-5 Launched in 2025. Here Is What Was Actually Announced
Matthew Leo · April 18, 2026The original article misstated GPT-5's timing, context window and pricing and claimed unsupported hands-on testing. This revision corrects the record.