Artificial Intelligence Industry News

AI Business Weekly - June 19, 2026: Canada Builds Its Own AI Stack. The World Is Watching.

Four stories revealing Bell and Cohere's sovereign AI deal, OpenAI's Washington hire, India's newest AI unicorn, and Google's $99 Gemini speaker bet

Google Launches $99 Gemini AI Home Speaker With Multistep Conversations and a $10 Monthly Premium Tier

Sarvam Becomes India's Newest AI Unicorn With $234 Million Round Led by HCLTech After Anthropic Export Control Accelerates Sovereignty Push

OpenAI Hires Former Trump White House AI Adviser Dean Ball to Lead New Strategic Futures Team

Bell Canada and Cohere Sign Sovereign AI Deal to Run Enterprise Models on Canadian Infrastructure in Merritt, BC

AI Business Weekly - June 18, 2026: World Leaders and AI CEOs Sat Down Together. Here's What Happened.

Four stories revealing the G7 AI coalition proposal, Edmonton's AI exploitation crisis, 1Password's agent security bet, and DeepSeek's $7.4 billion first raise

DeepSeek Raises $7.4 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation in First-Ever External Funding Round - China's AI Fund and Tencent Lead

Toronto's 1Password Acquires Apono to Become the Security Control Layer for Businesses Deploying AI Agents

Two 14-Year-Old Boys in Edmonton Charged With Using AI to Create Sexual Exploitation Images of Female Classmates

Anthropic and Google DeepMind Called for a US-Led AI Coalition at the G7 - And Canada Said Yes