{"id":236720,"date":"2026-07-01T06:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236720"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:57:50","slug":"canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236720","title":{"rendered":"Canada spent over $800M on AI contracts since 2023: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data provided by the feds revealed that the Canadian government has spent $800 million on artificial intelligence (AI) since 2023. The $800 million includes previously announced deals. One was a $350 million public service contract with Dayforce to replace the Phoenix pay system, and a $240 million investment in Canadian AI company Cohere&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2026\/05\/14\/canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data provided by the feds revealed that the Canadian government has spent $800 million on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report.jpg",2560,1439,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-1536x863.jpg",1536,863,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-2048x1151.jpg",2048,1151,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236720-canada-spent-over-800m-on-ai-contracts-since-2023-report-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}