Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce cos...

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

Last week, Professor Julie Chen was a keynote speaker at the 9th Annual Conference of the International Network on Digital Labour (INDL-9). Her presentation was entitled From Rengong (artificial/labor...

Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashe...

TORONTO - Shoppers have been caught up in the buy Canadian fervour since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sunday applying 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian

Watch to learn how an AI agent escaped “sandboxed” environments and hacked a separate company—leading to calls for regulation.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

by Anthony Tacconi Most shoppers at Walgreens and Kroger would be unaware that these companies have been quietly rolling out facial scanning and recognition technology at many of their stores. Walgree...

Toronto’s mayor has asked staff for a report on the options the city has to restrict the AI-fuelled retail practice.

This month, ICCIT Professor Kate Maddalena and her co-author Jeremy Tirrell have released Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption. Their new book, published by the University of Alabama Press, ...

Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

Driven by big tech and corporate concentration, companies are using surveillance to warp prices and extract from consumers

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is nixing the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing on groceries, as Manitoba has proposed.

Sample nests were found after a Russian glide bomb knocked down a tree in Donbas.

✍️ Op-Ed by Blair Attard-Frost, a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. She researches and teaches about the governance of AI systems in Canada and globally. Canada is currently experiencing a…

The UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Michael Iantorno as Assistant Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries, who will join University C...

When Karolina Pakėnaitė attempts to scale Mount Everest, every vibration from a high-tech vest she plans to wear will bring her closer to the top. If she succeeds, she’ll become the first deafblind pe...

AI as Existential Media: Refiguring Human-Technology Relationality at ‘the End Times’

Some good news for all the game jam organisers out there! We've put together a press kit for What's Next, Jammer? so you can easily share it at your events and on social media. Our interactive tool is...

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

In December of 2024, the first Spellbinder zine was tentatively slipped into a Little Free Library in Toronto. In June of 2025, the game was formally launched after a demo at Toronto Games Week. Throu...