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Latest · October 12, 2026
Stories tagged “AI” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.
Saint John knowledge-management firm ProcedureFlow is teaming with Gatestone Digital to put governed workflows in front of frontline teams and AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 summer alumni-magazine Q&A is sharpest on mimicry, chatbot liability, and the productivity paradox — and thinnest when it turns into a campus brochure.
The Fredericton managed-security firm says it is one of a select few Microsoft Security partners in Canada with the badge — a channel credential that now takes a third-party audit to hold, weeks after its CRN Fast Growth 150 nod.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Planet Hatch MERGE is funding Cloudboids' first live municipal pilot: Bimsta checks permit drawings against city bylaws and the National Building Code, flagging violations with a citation to the exact rule.
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.
The Fredericton-founded agtech, an early NBIF bet, puts in-line milk optics and AI on North American parlors and was named to SVG Ventures’ THRIVE Canada Accelerator V cohort.
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 workforce platform launched an enterprise AI that answers from SOPs and training docs — not the public web — for healthcare, manufacturing, and public-sector crews.
Pascal McCarthy's Fredericton startup reads mobility from phones and CCTV — no wearables — and is hunting long-term care partners after a five-digit sales year.
After a $1.85M seed and a CuriosityStream partnership, the Saint John startup is indexing video libraries — and digging old tape — for model trainers who need provenance, not scraped scraps.
The Fredericton startup automating clinic booking and patient admin — co-founded by Scott MacIntosh and Dr. Hanif Chatur — closed a pre-seed co-led by NBIF's $200K cheque and TLT East Ventures.
The company's new AI agent automatically strips unnecessary privileges and enforces just-in-time access — for humans, machines, and other AI agents alike.
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.
