AI Consortium participants will pay an entry fee of between $1 million and $25 million, and devote engineering staff to jointly develop systems to monitor and control AI agents and other tools. Founding member Lightworks, a Toronto-based tech services firm, will manage and maintain the code that the projects generate. (The Logic)

Talking point: As large firms, particularly in regulated industries, spread AI across their workforce and operations, they’re facing similar challenges to ensure the technology is acting as intended, said Telus CIO Hesham Fahmy. Competitors to the founding members are welcome to join. The consortium’s first tool, called the Agentic Control Plane, tracks and reports what automated assistants are doing and what other software systems they’re accessing and modifying. The group also plans to build a marketplace where members can buy access to AI models and the so-called “tokens” they produce to power applications. Telus plans to sell its own compute capacity—generated by new data centres in Quebec and British Columbia—via the service, Fahmy said. “You want to make it easy to consume.”