Canada will on Tuesday announce measures to shield workers and firms after the US on Saturday imposed a 50% tariff on about $20 billion of Canadian annual exports. Canada’s finance, industry, employment and minister of artificial intelligence will hold a press briefing at 11:00 a.m. local time (23:00 Beijing) to outline the package. Domestic measures will include expanded unemployment benefits and a loan program for firms hit by the tariffs, modelled on COVID-era support, sources said. The gover

At an internal autonomous-driving all-hands, NIO CEO Li Bin said Ren Shaoqing, head of NIO’s autonomous-driving unit, has founded an independent company focused on physics-based AI foundation models and embodied intelligence. NIO will make a strategic investment and cooperate with the new firm. Li and Ren said Ren will continue to lead NIO’s autonomous-driving business. The new company has completed registration and is reportedly valued at unicorn scale. How Ren allocates time between NIO and the new company is a potential governance and operational question for investors.

市場消息：古根海姆“選擇性”投資期限更短的人工智能債務。