Canada will join Europe's supercomputer network, the EU says

Canada and the European Union plan to sign an agreement on Friday that brings Canada into Europe's network of 12 supercomputers, letting Canadian companies and researchers train AI models on them, Ursula von der Leyen said at the summit in Montreal. Carney opened the day at Mila, the Quebec AI institute B.

Von der Leyen framed the AI cooperation as a hedge against a few dominant American firms: "Decisions taken elsewhere can put our businesses and essential services at risk." The agreement is announced, not signed, and its terms (how much compute, who pays, which machines) were not published. SourcesB

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This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of October 29th 2026.

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