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Meta to Build $13 Billion AI Data Centre in Alberta, Its First in Canada
Meta announced a 1-gigawatt AI data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta, representing a $13 billion investment and the largest data centre in Canadian history. The facility will draw power from a separately built $4.6 billion natural gas plant rather than the public grid, part of Alberta's strategy of requiring large developers to bring their own power generation. Read more
xAI Launches Grok 4.5, Claiming Top Marks on Coding and Legal Agent Benchmarks
xAI released Grok 4.5, its strongest model yet, trained alongside Cursor and now the default model in Grok Build. The company reports it scored number one on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark and runs roughly 4.2 times more token-efficient than comparable models, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Read more
Brown Professor Uncovers What May Be the Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History
Economics professor Roberto Serrano says he uncovered widespread AI cheating after switching a midterm to take-home format for compassionate reasons following a campus tragedy. Forty of 86 students scored perfect 100s on the take-home exam, but the class average collapsed to 48.6% once Serrano moved the final back in-person, the lowest score in the course's history. Read more
Manitoba Businesses Get $10.2 Million in Federal Funding to Adopt AI
The federal government announced $10.2 million in funding for six Manitoba organizations to develop and adopt AI, expected to create more than 170 jobs across agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and advertising. Winnipeg adtech company Taiv received the largest share at $5 million to expand its hardware manufacturing and team. Read more
📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
Today's stories show AI maturing in two very different directions at once. Meta and Ottawa are treating AI as infrastructure worth billions in long-term capital, betting on compute and adoption paying off over years, not quarters. xAI is racing to make that infrastructure cheaper and faster to actually use. But Brown University's cheating scandal is the reminder nobody wants to sit with. All the capital and capability in the world doesn't matter if the humans using these tools skip the part where they actually build the underlying skill. The infrastructure race and the trust race are now running in parallel, and right now, trust is losing.
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