OpenAI and SoftBank Group have invested $1 billion ($500 million each) in SB Energy to expand its data centre and power infrastructure for their Stargate initiative, a $500 billion multi-year initiative to build AI data centres for training and inference, also backed by other major investors like Oracle and President Trump. SB Energy, a SoftBank-owned company, is slated to build and operate OpenAI’s previously announced 1.2-gigawatt data centre site in Milam County, Texas. It will also become...

Paris-based game developer, Ubisoft, announced the closing of its Halifax studio which came as an abrupt surprise to the 70-plus workers. The announcement comes only 15 years after it first established itself in Nova Scotia, where it has had a pioneering impact on the gaming industry. Staff were called to an impromptu meeting to find out that they would be laid off. It comes as a particularly hard blow as employees at the Halifax office unionized in late December, forming the company’s first...

According to data from Statistics Canada (StatCan), the number of Canadians travelling to and from the United States continues to slide as data shows that Canadian return trips by car declined for the twelfth straight month, as have Canada to U.S. flight volumes, a clear response to the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and the changed geopolitical relationship between the two nations. In December, 1.3 million Canadians returned from the U.S. by automobile, representing a 30.7 percent...