University of Toronto

2026-10-30

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere commits C$4B+ to Canada, plans 1,500+ jobs by 2031

Cohere announced it will invest more than C$4 billion in R&D and AI infrastructure in Canada between 2024 and 2031 and expects to grow its Canada-based workforce by over 1,500 roles (around 1,000 technical positions). The plan includes a C$309 million GPU cloud partnership with Bell AI Fabric, university collaborations (University of Toronto, University of Waterloo) and more than 250 paid student roles by 2029 to strengthen domestic AI research, talent and commercialization.

8.0

2026-10-14

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · MIT News AI

ML postprocessing doubles 2–6 week weather forecast accuracy, paper finds

Researchers including scientists from MIT developed a machine-learning postprocessing model that learns and corrects errors in existing forecasting systems; when applied to a gold-standard model it doubled forecasting accuracy in the 2–6 week (subseasonal) range, placed first in an international forecasting competition, and for the first time beat climatological averages, the team reports in Nature. Coauthors include Judah Cohen, Lester Mackey, Microsoft researchers, ECMWF contributors, and others.

8.0

2026-10-06

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Mirror Particle is building a foundation "world model" to predict human behavior

Mirror Particle, a two-year-old San Francisco startup led by CEO Abhivyakti Ahuja, is developing a foundation "world model" trained from scratch to simulate and predict human behavior over time using proprietary client data, social and cultural signals, and revealed behavior. The company has raised an angel round, is close to a first venture round, and will compete in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield as it targets market-research and brand strategy use cases.

5.0

2026-09-18

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

New report 'Pacing the Frontier' urges research into how to enforce an AI slowdown

A new report coauthored by Raymond Douglas (University of Toronto), titled Pacing the Frontier: A Research Agenda, argues that enforcing a slowdown in AI development is an unresolved research problem and surveys possible approaches including independent inspections, third‑party evaluations, compute tracking, and new model-evaluation methods. The article also notes industry moves—such as Anthropic’s internal tracking of Claude’s contributions—and differing views on whether government or outside expertise should lead enforcement.

7.0

2026-09-16

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere partners with University of Toronto to integrate North into campus-wide AI platform

Cohere and the University of Toronto announced a multi-year partnership to integrate Cohere’s privately deployable agentic AI platform, North, as an orchestration layer in U of T’s forthcoming enterprise-wide AI platform. The collaboration will support teaching, research, student services and administration, back the university’s AI Kitchen evaluation environment, and emphasize secure, university-controlled handling of sensitive data.

6.0