Trudeau Unveils $1.8 Billion Package for Canada’s AI Sector

**Article description:** Canada is launching a fund to boost its artificial intelligence sector and creating a new AI safety institute.

**Key points:**

* Canada is launching a C$2.4 billion ($1.8 billion) package of measures to boost its artificial intelligence (AI) sector, including C$2 billion for "computing capabilities and technological infrastructure" to accelerate the work of AI researchers, startups, and companies.
* The government is also creating a new C$50 million Canadian AI Safety Institute to address concerns about the trajectory …

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