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    Murad Hemmadi

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    Murad Hemmadi covers artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing and other deep technologies. He was previously an Ottawa correspondent for The Logic, covering business and innovation policy. Before joining The Logic, he covered politics and wrote a daily newsletter for Maclean’s.
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    Articles by Murad Hemmadi

    Canada forges deals with Europe in search for new AI allies

    https://thelogic.co/news/canada-g7-allies-artificial-intelligence/

    By Laura Osman and Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 9, 2025

    With the U.S. aiming for tech dominance, Canada used this week’s G7 ministers meeting to find new partners on AI and quantum

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    Briefing

    Brookfield and Qatar Investment Authority to jointly invest US$20B in AI

    https://thelogic.co/briefing/brookfield-and-qatar-investment-authority-to-jointly-invest-us20b-in-ai/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 9, 2025

    Cohere signs deal with Thales to use its AI for the Canadian Armed Forces

    https://thelogic.co/news/cohere-thales-ai-canadian-armed-forces/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 8, 2025

    As well as deploying AI in the military, the two companies will also jointly develop new agentic systems for security applications

    Nobody is talking about a bubble at the world’s biggest AI research conference

    https://thelogic.co/news/ai-bubble-neurips-san-diego/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 5, 2025

    More than 20,000 researchers gathered in San Diego this week for NeurIPS. The hallway chatter was focused on how AI systems work—and how to make them work better.

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    AI sovereignty and talent wars won’t slow Google down, chief scientist says

    https://thelogic.co/news/jeff-dean-google-ai-sovereignty-talent-wars-interview/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 5, 2025

    The tech giant’s chief scientist says researchers continue to collaborate across borders and corporate divides even as AI models become the focus of geopolitical and commercial competition

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    Google gives University of Toronto $10M for new AI role in Geoffrey Hinton’s name

    https://thelogic.co/news/u-of-t-geoffrey-hinton-chair/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 3, 2025

    The holder of the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence will work to make AI breakthroughs at the university where the deep learning pioneer made a number of discoveries

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    Briefing

    Versos raises $1.85M seed to sell video data to AI firms

    https://thelogic.co/briefing/versos-raises-1-85m-seed-to-sell-video-data-to-ai-firms/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Dec 1, 2025

    Mila’s Hugo Larochelle says academia can do what industry won’t to advance AI

    https://thelogic.co/news/mila-hugo-larochelle-artificial-intelligence-academia/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Nov 14, 2025

    The successor to Yoshua Bengio says collaborations between computer scientists and researchers in fields like ecology and health care can expand AI’s impact

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    Briefing

    Trade agreements won’t be in fashion in the coming years, says François-Philippe Champagne

    https://thelogic.co/briefing/trade-agreements-wont-be-in-fashion-in-the-coming-years-says-francois-philippe-champagne/

    By Chaimae Chouiekh and Murad Hemmadi   |   Nov 13, 2025

    Briefing

    Cerebras to build sovereign compute for countries, starting with Guyana

    https://thelogic.co/briefing/cerebras-to-build-sovereign-compute-for-countries-starting-with-guyana/

    By Murad Hemmadi   |   Nov 13, 2025

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