Latest · October 12, 2026
Fredericton startup hub Planet Hatch has opened a Media Creation Room — a professional studio with podcast gear, lighting, a teleprompter and an editing workstation — with 50% off for members and 30% off for non-members through October 31.
Faster Than Light told council a 100-megawatt first phase could be running by the end of 2027. A separate 50-megawatt request for Saint John was already in provincial files.
The national list names 40 companies. Fredericton is on it twice: Chinova in ingredients, Smart Skin in manufacturing technology.
Two First Nations and Prodigy Clean Energy picked two gas-cooled BANR cores for a factory-built plant of up to 50 megawatts in Belledune. It has a reactor vendor and a provincial offtake letter, but no site, licence or final investment decision yet.
Tech coordinators and coaches from every anglophone district spent two days with the McKenna Institute, EECD, and the Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation on the Miramichi.
The McKenna Institute and Promise Partnership turned a dedicated room at the K-5 school into a hands-on studio, previewed by teachers at Tech for Teaching.
Science dean Sanjeev Seahra will lead UNB's slice of Concordia's WxAlliance: using AI to sharpen cheap, low-resolution runs so Atlantic storms are not a blur.
Partner View lets a channel shop schedule phishing and training across its whole book in one action. It is also Beauceron leaning harder on the sales motion that built the Fredericton company in the first place.
Ignite's municipal-startup matching program took EDAC's 2026 Regional and Community Collaboration Award at the association's Moncton conference.
The Rothesay-founded parachute-and-drone firm is one of six suppliers on Ottawa's initial Defence Drone Initiative contracts — a pot worth up to $50 million, not a cheque written to one company.
The Saint John regulator has seen AI-drafted OHS documents that quote other provinces' laws, U.S. standards, or skip the hazards in the actual shop. Using a chatbot does not count as due diligence.
The company launched a plain-language curation layer on NVIDIA NeMo and Nemotron Ultra. It is demoing the stack this week at IBC2026, with Chris Keevill on the Ignite Stage Saturday.
CBC filmed Sys-MoDEL's MARV, a one-fifth-scale research vehicle with independent steering, torque, and brakes. Kush Bubbar says the control tech could reach production ATVs within five years.
Amisha Parikh spoke at UNB's Aug. 20 cybersecurity summit, sat on a panel with CIC and the NRC, and walked the Mastercard-CIC IoT laboratory the company has backed since 2022.
Implementation started with the school year. Both sector plans want students to learn about and with AI. Neither names ChatGPT, Copilot, or any other product.
Craig MacEachern takes the McCain- and FCC-backed chair with a brief to make precision ag work on New Brunswick's shallow-bedrock, irregularly shaped fields — starting with cold storage and abandoned farmland.
A Sept. 1–Oct. 2 consultation puts a five-point framework in front of the public. The draft behind the release has teeth: pass-every-criterion approval, curtailment during grid strain — and one large carve-out.
The Faculty of Computer Science wrapped two July weeks of Adventures in Computing for grades 6–8 — the same kids walking into Policy 311 classrooms this September.
A rewritten Policy 311 bans personal devices all day for K–8 this September, phases high school in next February, and restricts social apps on the school network — with Beauceron's David Shipley backing the line.
Global Intelligence took more than $1.4 million in Canadian public support to build CyberCheck. Canadian police never used it. U.S. prosecutors later withdrew it from murder files after CBC and WIRED documented reports that could not be checked and testimony that did not hold.
Three InteractiveNB members are on the CIAIC mission in Cologne this week, and Fredericton's Spandrel Interactive is there looking for XR, AI, and real-time 3D partners.
The Fredericton-founded company put its Model Context Protocol server into general availability, so law, accounting, and consulting firms can query who-knows-whom from Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey.
The identity-security firm headquartered at Fredericton's Knowledge Park Cyber Centre passed an independent C3PAO assessment against 110 NIST 800-171 controls — six weeks after the Pentagon suspended the phase that would have made that assessment mandatory.
The province's tech awards return to Fredericton on November 26 with public nominations open through September 28 — and the Hall of Fame now carries the Codefather's name.
A $97,026 Canada Foundation for Innovation award will help Scott Bateman's team build privacy-preserving synthetic health data — part of $397,026 across three UNB projects announced August 20.
Lucy Thompson and Catherine O'Connell-Cooper ran Curiosity's Canadian APXS instrument on a field of bright stones in Gale crater. The Science cover story: they are elemental sulfur, not sulfate.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster examines MCP, A2A, Agora, and ANP agent protocols end-to-end, showing how identity ambiguity could let an agent grab the right tool from the wrong provider.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster uses real TLS traffic data and system dependency maps to turn cryptographic discovery into a staged post-quantum migration plan.
Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity research pits PRG masking against RLWE homomorphic encoding for secure aggregation, finding post-quantum resilience and an 8x local encoding speedup — plus a client-side privacy trade-off.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs specialized AI agents that read structure, semantics, and behaviour to catch anomalies in IEC 61850 substation traffic that single detectors miss.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs adversarial training with a nine-expert Mixture-of-Experts architecture that holds up better than prior MoE defences against FGSM and PGD attacks.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster connects graph-neural-network malware verdicts to known benign and malicious behaviour patterns, keeping detection strong while making it interpretable.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster introduces quadratic separators based on invariant subspaces to cut redundant search in symmetric integer programming — the class of problem behind scheduling and logistics.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster proposes a per-response risk snapshot for enterprise LLM pipelines, flagging unreliable retrieval, sensitive-data exposure, risky tool use, and weak factual support.
PST Cybersecurity Summit 2026 brings speakers from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Public Safety Canada, DND/CAF Cyber Command, Scotiabank, TD and Mastercard to the Fredericton Convention Centre on Aug. 20 — alongside eight UNB research posters on adversarial AI, malware explainability, agent-protocol security and post-quantum migration.
UNB was the only Canadian university picked to help track Artemis II — the April mission that carried CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, farther from Earth than any human has ever travelled. Two UNB researchers also sit on the Curiosity rover science team.
A new deal with national nonprofit TICAN will match MTME students and postdocs to New Brunswick companies in mobility, biomanufacturing, clean growth, microelectronics, and ICT.
A nearly $10-million federal credential-recognition package earmarks enhancements to AMS — the shared five-province portal Skilled Trades NB already uses to run apprenticeships online.
A community-built ALPR map is the only record so far of a Flock Safety camera in New Brunswick — pinned on Autumn Street, a short walk from Elsipogtog School. It is unconfirmed, and the entry was added through an anti-surveillance app.
The Fredericton instrument maker’s new ATC accessory automates elevated-temperature thermal conductivity tests from room temperature to 300°C — part of a broader push into lab automation.
Eleven Student Digital Mentors are running free workshops and drop-ins across New Brunswick — resetting passwords, spotting scams, and proving the digital divide is a people problem.
Denis Sawyer faces a Sept. 3 Law Society discipline hearing after admitting he used generative AI incompetently and filed a Provincial Court brief in which 10 of 12 citations were fictitious.
Now rebranded ‘TrojAI by A10,’ the Saint John AI-security crew’s product is part of the Silicon Valley parent’s Black Hat USA 2026 lineup, seven weeks after June’s acquisition closed.
At Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Benton Ridge substation, genome sequencing and hyperspectral drones are compressing a breeding cycle that still runs 12 to 15 years — and pointing it at a warmer climate.
The UNB professor and founding director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity is one of ten New Brunswickers receiving the province’s highest honour in 2026.
The pilot reached more than 150 students on the days New Brunswick classrooms sit empty — and the Dieppe session sent the adaptive switches and toys it built to the Stan Cassidy Centre.
The fourth annual Ignite Summit hands every attendee wireless headphones and runs business, policy, place, and talent tracks simultaneously at the Fredericton Convention Centre — with Dragons' Den investor Manjit Minhas as keynote.
Launched Wednesday in Fredericton, the new vital statistics search platform arrives as citizenship-rule changes have quadrupled demand for the archives' historical birth, marriage and death records.
New Brunswick’s proposed largest solar farm has a site and an EIA file — but project leads say selling the power is hurdle number one.
After a flood of public pushback, council shelved a bylaw amendment for data centres and battery storage and cancelled its August hearing.
Bill Oliver’s June remarks on an energy consumer-advocate bill included a chatbot-style instruction that only went viral weeks later.
$5.9 million starts engineering for two new 200 MW subsea links, while NB, NS, and PEI agree to plan the regional grid together through spring 2027.
ATS 2026 (Dartmouth and Saint John, Nov 18) is selling early-stage startups a $500 showcase to ask the room for capital, co-founders, or their first ten customers.
The southeast’s innovation hub packed The Bunker on July 22 with F1 racing sims, a lounge bar, and the usual founder networking — a playful reset for the city’s startup social circuit.
The Saint John AI procurement startup will deploy its Co-pilot across Health Proc Europe’s Communities of Practice, covering hospital networks in 30 countries.
The Saint John knowledge platform opened a beta of its Agentic API, letting chatbots and voice agents follow the same version-controlled procedures human teams already use.
The Fredericton instrument maker’s Arya Hakimian and Genesis Infante walk engineers through Trident and TIM Tester workflows for greases, gap pads, and liquid-cooling materials used in AI data centres and power electronics.
The former NBTel CEO who co-founded Mariner and East Valley Ventures — and backed Radian6 and Q1 Labs — has died. Tributes are pouring in across the Atlantic ecosystem.
Tall Grass Ventures returns to lead, with BDC Seed Fund and Verdex Capital joining — and LENS now covers crops representing over 70% of North American acres.
The province's fastest-growing city is building its own tech identity around data science, logistics, and bilingual talent.
The Fredericton identity-security firm raised a round led by BDC Capital's new StrongNorth Fund to bring its U.S.-proven, quantum-resilient platform home to Canadian critical infrastructure.
The department that helped wire the province — and staff its phone company, its security cluster, and its startup pipeline — marks a hundred years of graduates.
New customers from Fiserv to PG&E, independent attack-path validation, and quadrupled recurring revenue — the Q1 Labs lineage has another winner scaling.
The company's new AI agent automatically strips unnecessary privileges and enforces just-in-time access — for humans, machines, and other AI agents alike.
After a year-long partnership with the Austrian motorcycle maker, Potential Motors showed what it calls the world's first terrain-perception motorcycle at CES.
A month after integrating with Salesforce Data Cloud, the Fredericton-founded company ships AI Account Summaries — the first of a promised series of AI features.
The Fredericton machine-vision company closed a fresh equity round with backing that includes TLT East Ventures, pushing its total raised past $14 million.
The Saint John knowledge-management SaaS will digitize HR and clinical-trial workflows for New Brunswick's largest health authority.
NBIF, Prevail Partners, and Québec's Impulsion PME back Therapy-07 — New Brunswick's largest disclosed venture round of 2024.
The security platform born as Q1 Labs is changing hands in a deal reported at roughly US$500 million — a strange milestone for the city that built it.
The Fredericton company's software reads the ground ahead of an off-road vehicle and adjusts suspension, driveline, and chassis settings before the wheels get there.
The Fredericton-rooted cloud security firm says its new product delivers one-click least privilege across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
