Carney says Canada’s sovereignty is rooted in a strong, secure North.

Shanghai issued an action plan to implement measures to boost private investment, including measures to reduce costs for public data, compute, models and training data. The city will provide compute subsidies in accordance with law and support private firms renting smart-computing resources for large-model R&D, training and deployment. Higher-education institutions, research institutes and state-owned firms are encouraged to use data storage and compute resources built by private and other market entities. Shanghai will publish and dynamically update a public-data openness list and support private firms in deep development and scenario-based use of specific public data. The plan promotes issuance of compute-power vouchers, model vouchers and training-data vouchers to lower usage costs of digital inputs, and supports private participation in digital transformation projects across transport, logistics and public services. It also encourages private-led demonstration projects for new infrastructure such as blockchain applications and robotics at scale.

SanDisk (SNDK.O) top executive said Meta Platforms (META.O) will join an industry group to co-develop open standards for high-bandwidth flash (HBF).