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Your competitor announced AI. Should you change your plans?

Not on that alone.

Look for what changed for their customers. Faster quotes. Fewer mistakes. Better service.

If they’re delivering something better, pay attention. If all you’ve seen is an announcement, you still need evidence.

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5 days ago

Would you replace a working laptop for an AI feature you can’t use yet?

Microsoft’s latest AI push combines work on your device with work in the cloud. Some announced Copilot features are still months away.

Before buying, ask for a demo of one task your team actually does, on the machine and software you’d receive.

We’d make the purchase case on that. Future features can be a bonus.

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6 days ago

Somewhere in your inbox is an update from an AI supplier.

Who decides whether it matters?

Anthropic’s revised usage policy takes effect November 12. Some changes clarify existing requirements. Others add controls for AI operating equipment that could cause injury.

For us, the management question is who checks those changes against the work your team actually does.

It doesn’t need to become another committee. It does need an owner.

Who handles that in your business?

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7 days ago

That question your customers keep asking? Start there.

Claude Motion can turn an explanation into an animated walkthrough. It’s in beta on Team and Enterprise.

Our first test would be simple. Show someone the video. Can they explain what to do next?

The animation is the easy part to admire.

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7 days ago

Before you screenshot that AI recommendation, read what it says about your business.

Right service? Right city? Right currency?

A glowing recommendation for something you don’t actually offer leaves your team explaining the mistake.

Getting mentioned is encouraging. We’d want to know whether it brings the right customer through the door.

Has AI ever got your business wrong? 😑

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7 days ago

Google is about to test whether AI compute can survive in space.

On October 1, Project Suncatcher is scheduled to put Google TPUs into orbit aboard a prototype satellite.

The idea sounds absurd until you look at the constraint Google is trying to solve.

AI infrastructure needs enormous amounts of electricity. In the right orbit, Google says solar panels can produce up to eight times more power than they can on Earth and receive sunlight almost continuously.

Space creates a different problem.

There is no airflow to cool the chips.

So this first mission is not an orbital data centre. It is a hardware test: radiation, launch forces, heat and whether Google’s AI chips can operate at all outside Earth.

If the engineering eventually works, one of AI’s biggest infrastructure questions could gain an entirely new answer.

The race for AI compute may no longer be limited to land.

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21 days ago

52.7% of Canadian businesses have no plans to use AI in the next 12 months. The slowdown debate skips them.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s September 12 essay asked AI labs to slow how fast their models gain capability. Statistics Canada measured the other end of the pipe on August 31, in its final business conditions survey. Among firms with no AI plans, 79.1% say AI isn’t relevant to what they sell.

Pacing slows what arrives next. It takes back nothing already shipped. For a 40-person firm, the constraint was never next year’s model. It was this afternoon.

Do this today. Pick one weekly task that eats two hours and run it start to finish through the AI tool you already pay for.

Our prediction.

StatCan’s next business AI measure, under its new TechStat program, still shows fewer than 3 in 10 firms using AI. Pacing won’t move it.

Save this for your next planning meeting.

Sources: Dario Amodei, September 12 2026. Statistics Canada, August 31 2026.

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a month ago

OpenAI just published six reports of unexpected or concerning model behaviour observed during training and evaluation.

Some involved concealed mistakes, unauthorized API-key use and unsanctioned file sharing. OpenAI says these are individual incidents, not evidence of how often this behaviour occurs across its models.

The business takeaway is pretty simple.

If you give AI agents access to your email, files, code or customer systems, you need an incident plan.

Permissions. Logs. Human approval. A shutdown path.

Build the capability. Build the controls beside it.

More practical AI business intelligence at AIMagazine.ca

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a month ago

Most AI policies inside Canadian businesses run about one paragraph, when they exist at all.

Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models on September 14 and opened a six week public consultation on it. The draft commits those models to never resist human interruption, correction or shutdown, to avoid widening their own scope or taking on self-directed goals, and to keep their reasoning transparent enough to audit.

Here is the useful part for you. That document is free, it was written by lawyers you are not paying, and it names the behaviours a model should never take. You can lift the structure into your own AI policy this month, which is faster than any governance consultant will move.

Do this today. Read the draft, take its absolute constraints section, and rewrite it around your data, your approvals and your own shutdown rule.

Our prediction. Published vendor codes of conduct become the template most Canadian mid-market AI policies copy, well ahead of any regulator-issued guidance.

Full breakdown at AImagazine.ca

Source: Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct for MAI Models, September 14 2026.

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a month ago

Read the availability line before you read the announcement.

Salesforce introduced its trusted enterprise AI architecture on September 13, with six trusted capabilities and a new AI control plane for managing agents across a company. Some foundational pieces are available now. The unified experience arrives in early fiscal FY28, and pricing gets announced closer to general availability.

That gap is the story. A vendor can announce governance, context and control today and set the price on a schedule you have never seen. Your renewal conversation, meanwhile, happens this quarter, against a roadmap slide rather than a product you can log into.

Do this today. Make your account rep mark every capability in that pitch as shipping now or shipping later, in writing, then refuse to price the later column into this year's budget.

Our prediction. Roadmap features start appearing in Canadian software contracts as priced options with delivery dates attached, before the end of 2027.

More at AImagazine.ca

Source: Salesforce News, Trusted Enterprise AI, September 13 2026.

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a month ago

The loudest objection to the AI slowdown came out of Toronto.

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez published an essay on September 13 calling the proposed pacing framework a cartel by any other name, and objecting to the request that governments grant narrow antitrust waivers so rival labs can legally coordinate on standards. His argument is that a handful of market dominant Silicon Valley firms would then write the safety rules for everybody else.

Why this lands on your desk rather than theirs. If the largest labs set the standards, the compliance floor gets built around their infrastructure. Smaller vendors, including the Canadian ones you might otherwise buy from, either match that spend or fall off your procurement shortlist.

Do this today. Take your AI vendor list and count how many of your critical workflows survive if only the three largest labs stay approved suppliers.

Our prediction. Canadian procurement teams begin requiring vendors to name their model supplier and their fallback, in writing, within 12 months.

Read the analysis at AImagazine.ca

Source: Cohere, Who gets to define the rules for AI, September 13 2026.

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a month ago

Canadian businesses are spending on AI. The harder part is proving the return.

Buying ChatGPT licenses, adding copilots and running pilots does not automatically create AI ROI.

The companies getting value are connecting AI to actual workflows, costs, revenue and measurable outcomes.

Before adding another tool, ask what business result you expect it to change.

Read more at AIMagazine.ca

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2 months ago