Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with lower costs
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MindBridge adds AI tools for finance & audit teams
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TD's Layer 6 invests CAD $25 million in Cohere AI tie-up
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Adyen upgrades Authenticate to lift online payments
Online shoppers could face fewer checkout hurdles as Adyen's updated authentication tool aims to lift conversion by double digits for merchants.
Wagepoint launches bilingual Québec payroll platform
Small businesses in Québec can now handle payroll, remittances and reporting in one bilingual system, cutting duplicate work and manual fixes.
Mastercard & Rogers Bank test AI shopping checkout
Canadian shoppers may soon see AI agents make purchases within preset budgets, as the pilot highlights trust and control concerns.
Canada faces ransomware rate more than twice global
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Bias in AI is becoming a business risk as researchers warn English-language models still miss cultural nuance in non-Western markets.
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Percona & Coroot expand observability to databases
Customers will get a broader view of outages as the tie-up links database support with tracing across applications, networks and infrastructure.
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Certinia expands Veda AI for professional services
Only 20% of services and IT leaders say AI beat expectations, prompting Certinia to add 14 agents to target clearer returns.
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Avalara launches Aviator AI hub for tax compliance
Existing customers get the AI tool at no extra cost for now, as Avalara targets gaps in tax workflows and audit readiness.
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Netskope launches control to block risky AI agent actions
Many firms still cannot stop AI agents from causing damage before execution, leaving systems exposed to production outages and data loss.
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ABBYY launches FineParser for enterprise AI document parsing
Enterprises could cut AI ingestion errors and token costs as the new tool keeps sensitive documents on premises or in a chosen cloud.
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