Applied AI

How 2 trillion tokens and 20+ production use cases help telecoms escape ‘Pilot Purgatory’ with insights from NVIDIA, F3 Networks and TELUS VANCOUVER, BC–TELUS Digital will showcase production-ready artificial intelligence (AI) driven customer experience (CX) and network optimization solutions for telecommunications providers at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona, …

Taps veteran tech executive to lead team TORONTO, ON–Royal Bank of Canada has created the AI Group, a newly established team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer that will accelerate the bank’s AI ambitions over the next several years. Building on existing capabilities and top AI talent, this group will …

TORONTO, ON–Building on a multi-year strategic retail partnership, Canadian Tire Corporation has moved to the next phase of its collaboration with Microsoft, with the development of a custom retail intelligence platform designed to help the Company better anticipate and serve the everyday moments that matter most to Canadians. Following a …

New collaboration provides unified sovereign infrastructure, cloud applications and Canadian-hosted AI in a single environment. MONTRÉAL, QC–Bell Canada and SAP Canada announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly deliver a comprehensive Canadian‑operated cloud solution designed to meet high standards of data protection and strengthen Canada’s digital sovereignty. The partnership …

TORONTO, ON–Agentiiv, a pioneer in enterprise-grade, agentic AI systems in Canada, announced a technology partnership with the Vector Institute. As a Vector technology partner, Agentiiv gains access to strategic advisory support from a leading AI institute. It’s a partnership that signals the importance of AI systems that scale human expertise, …

By 2030, surveyed executives anticipate AI spend to shift from efficiency to innovation; AI productivity gains projected to increase by 42%, fueling reinvestment for growth; 67% of respondents expect AI to eliminate resource and skills constraints ARMONK, N.Y.–New research from the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that nearly eight …

Gen AI and agentic AI are already accelerating the impact of classic marketing approaches to driving growth, but McKinsey’s State of Marketing Europe 2026 report finds few CMOs are acting boldly This report is a collaborative effort by Aurélia Bettati, Jerome Königsfeld, Jesko Perrey, Kai Vollhardt, Thomas Bauer, Tjark Freundt, …

VANCOUVER, BC–SCALE AI, Canada’s artificial intelligence (AI) cluster, announced new investments supporting applied AI projects in British Columbia, part of a broad national effort unveiled yesterday by SCALE AI and Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. In British Columbia, SCALE AI is supporting a new applied AI …

New global survey reveals 64.5% of enterprises have AI in production, yet only 38.1% rate their document data as “excellent,” exposing a critical gap in AI readiness VANCOUVER, BC–Apryse, the document-to-data foundation powering intelligent automation, today released findings from its global survey on AI adoption and document infrastructure. The results …

MONTRÉAL, QC–CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, has been recognized as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, the highest level attainable in the AWS Partner Network. In addition, CGI has been awarded AWS SAP Competency Partner status, highlighting …