As the Liberal government pursues plans for a sovereign Canadian cloud service, it needs to settle on a definition that incorporates legal, operational, technical and political understandings of what “sovereignty” means, the federal minister for artificial intelligence said during a visit to Ottawa tech company Solink on Thursday. (The Logic)

Talking point: Prime Minister Mark Carney included a sovereign cloud among the missions for his government’s new Major Projects Office in September. Despite Carney’s stated intention of giving Canada control over advanced computing, AI and quantum technologies and the difficult relations between Canada and the U.S., OpenAI is one U.S. company already pitching itself as a partner. Solomon didn’t rule out a role for OpenAI or its competitors, saying the government’s thinking could include “hybrid models” with “multiple players.”