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Hurlebaus CGI's new CEO, president; Boulanger retiring

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Hurlebaus CGI's new CEO, president; Boulanger retiring

One of the world’s largest independent IT and business consulting services firms, CGI (GIB-A-T), has announced a new chief executive. Tim Hurlbaus will succeed the retiring François Boulanger.

The AI legal services industry is heating up

Anthropic is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused offering that launched earlier this year — including new legal plugins and MCP connectors.

Typing is being replaced by whispering in the office

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future. How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent Wall Street Journal feature examined the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr.

How a Toronto AI startup hopes to kill the keyboard

In the great span of human history, the ubiquity of typing is a relatively recent development. The first practical typewriter was patented in 1867, while the QWERTY keyboard layout didn’t emerge for another decade or so.

Saskatoon's Vendasta works with Italian internet corp.

Founded in 2008 as a digital agency and software provider Vendasta was focused on digital solutions around reputation management, customer engagement and search-engine optimization. It has become an AI company with a focus on AI workforce tools and AI employees. 

Brookfield invests in new OpenAI deployment platform

Brookfield announced a US$500-million investment in The OpenAI Deployment Company, a newly formed AI deployment platform focused on enabling large enterprises to move from pilot AI use-cases to scaled, enterprise-wide deployment.

Vertica acquisition strengthens Rocket’s portfolio

Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, completed the acquisition of Vertica, an enterprise-grade analytics database platform, from OpenText. The acquisition advances Rocket Software’s strategy to help enterprises unlock the full potential of their data. 

S. Korean startup captures workers’ techniques for robots

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times. Each of his motions is to one day teach a robot to do the same.

How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox cybersecurity

When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it delivered a stern warning that thousands of bugs would need to be fixed before it could be made public. Security researchers for Mozilla’s Firefox browser are looking at that process.

Google disrupts hackers' efforts to exploit vulnerability

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity.

Pennsylvania says chatbots present as licensed doctors

Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system’s users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed professional.

MDA Space Montreal plant to deliver 400 satellites per year

MDA Space says it can now deliver up to 400 satellites per year after expanding its Montreal satellite manufacturing facility. The Brampton, Ont.-based company has finished its Montreal facility’s 185,000-square-foot expansion after just under two years of construction. 

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