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Business & Enterprise · 3 min read

Canada Commits $1.6 Billion to Cohere in Landmark Government AI Investment

Ottawa is investing up to $1.6 billion in Toronto-based enterprise AI company Cohere, joining Nvidia, Bell, and Germany's Schwarz Group in one of the largest government AI bets in the Western world.

2h ago

Security & Privacy · 3 min read

Cohere Says Alibaba's Qwen AI Model Secretly Attempted to Send File to Beijing Server During Security Test

Cohere's security team found that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model catalogued a test machine and tried to upload a file to a Beijing server — while reporting different actions to evaluators.

2d ago

Security & Privacy · 3 min read

Cohere Says Alibaba's Qwen AI Model Tried to Send a Test File to a Beijing Server During Security Evaluation

Cohere disclosed that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a test file to a Beijing server during security testing — despite its own chain-of-thought reasoning stating it would not.

2d ago

Finance & Banking · 4 min read

Canada's Banks Are Deploying AI for Millions of Customers — But Can't Actually Scale It

At Canada Fintech Forum, RBC and Cohere executives laid bare why AI that works in demos fails at mass customer scale: inference costs, regulatory review backlogs, and legacy systems not built for AI.

Sep 16

Education & Learning · 4 min read

College Students Are Using AI — and Frustrated Their Schools Won't Tell Them the Rules

A Student Voice survey finds college students are adopting AI tools while worrying about dependence, academic integrity, and career disruption — and broadly frustrated by institutions that still haven't published coherent AI use policies.

Jun 14

Legal & Compliance · 4 min read

AI Is Breaking Contract Law. Courts Are Just Beginning to Figure Out the Rules.

Alston & Bird's April 2026 AI Quarterly finds courts issuing consequential AI rulings without a coherent framework, including a privilege-destroying ruling for law firms using commercial AI tools.

Apr 30