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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 25/09/2026

That’s a wrap on the 2026 AI Summit and Career Fair! 🚀 From main stage insights to an engaging Career Fair, today showed why Ontario leads in AI innovation. Huge thanks to our speakers, sponsors, and all our attendees!

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 25/09/2026

The morning sessions at the AI Summit and Career Fair delivered deep insights into AI research and industry adoption. Here’s what we heard from the main stage! 👇🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 25/09/2026

"We are not joining the AI revolution, we helped start it." – Minister Thanigasalam Vector’s 2026 AI Summit and Career Fair is officially here! 🚀 Huge thanks to Ministers Fedeli, Solomon, and Thanigasalam for joining us to open the day.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 24/09/2026

The standard graduate application process has a sequencing problem. You apply, pay the fee, and hope a lab has space. The Vector Graduate Student Program flips this to put research fit first. 🧵

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U of T Department of Computer Science @uoftcompsci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One season. Many conversations. Introducing “Conversations in Computing.” On Oct. 22, Bruce Schneier presents “Hacking AI,” exploring how AI can exploit vulnerabilities across economic, political and social systems. With @vectorinstitute.ai & @torontosri.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/cic-oct-22

Promotional graphic for the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science's Conversations in Computing series. The graphic features a portrait of Bruce Schneier alongside the title “Bruce Schneier on Hacking AI.” Event details read: Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street, Toronto. A yellow “Register Now” button appears beside the portrait. University of Toronto Computer Science, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and Vector Institute logos appear at the bottom.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 23/09/2026

During her Winter 2026 term, Vector intern Sana Shams consulted with Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows to build workshops and an application database that helps researchers secure faculty roles and keeps top AI talent in Canada. Where will a Vector internship take you?

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 17/09/2026

Step directly into Canada’s premier AI network. Advance your career by deploying AI solutions alongside leading researchers and industry partners 🚀 Vector Institute Winter 2027 Applied AI Internships are now open!

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 18/08/2026

Ontario faculty leading established AI research programs: Vector's Faculty Affiliate open call is live! 📣 ~20 spots for a three-year term, for active faculty at Ontario post-secondary institutions Details and application: na3.hubs.ly/y0zQ4H0

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Vector Faculty Affiliate Open Call - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Vector Faculty Affiliate Open Call The Vector Institute invites applications to its Faculty Affiliate program. Faculty at Ontario post-secondary institutions who are working in Fundamental Machine Lea...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 06/08/2026

LLM safety benchmarks evaluate one response at a time. New research from Vector Faculty Affiliate Elham Dolatabadi and Affiliate Researcher Abeer Badawi asks what happens across the full arc of a conversation and whether mental health AI quietly erodes human agency. 👇

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When AI helps too much: Towards understanding and measuring Cognitive Atrophy in LLM behaviour - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Authors: Abeer Badawi, Elham Dolatabadi Can AI become too helpful? Artificial intelligence is increasingly used for emotional support, life advice, and mental health guidance. These systems are availa...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 04/08/2026

Vector's 2025-26 Annual Report just dropped! Read the full report: na3.hubs.ly/y0yXCt0

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Igor Gilitschenski @igilitschenski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

📢 We are looking for Postdocs at @vectorinstitute.ai Join us to work with my group or any of our other brilliant researchers. Apply by Aug 31 to receive full consideration for the fall cohort: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 30/07/2026

9 years ago, RBC was among the first organizations to join Vector to advance AI research, innovation, and talent development across Canada. We’re excited to continue our collaboration and advance AI for Canada through renewed sponsorship 🎉 Read the full announcement: www.newswire.ca/news-release...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 29/07/2026

Vector's AI Engineering team audited the routing structure of a 35-billion-parameter multimodal model across all 48 layers. In the first half, routing is driven by signal type, audio, video and text each follow their own stable pathways. In the second half, it shifts to meaning.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 14/07/2026

We’re excited to share that Vector is receiving a gift of Claude API credits from @anthropic.com as part of a wider $10 million CAD commitment to Canadian AI research.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 13/07/2026

An AI system ran the full research pipeline – formed a hypothesis, wrote and debugged its own experimental code, produced the manuscript – and passed blind peer review. Published in Nature & co-authored by Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune: 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 09/07/2026

The final episode of our #ICML2026 paper series: machine learning applied to the hardest problems in biology and chemistry. Genomics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 09/07/2026

Trust in AI isn't just about safety guardrails. Vector Faculty Members at #ICML2026 are examining honesty, privacy, accountability, and whether AI quietly erodes human autonomy. 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 08/07/2026

When a vision-language model gets a question wrong, is it because it couldn't see or couldn't think? Vector researchers at #ICML2026 are unpacking both, and finding the answer changes how you train. 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 07/07/2026

Can reinforcement learning teach AI genuinely new reasoning skills – or just surface what the base model already knows? Vector Faculty Members at #ICML2026 sharpen the answer: 🧵

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Valentyn Melnychuk 🇺🇦 @valik-melnychuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

[1/4] 🇰🇷 Excited to present our new paper “Frequentist Consistency of Prior-Data Fitted Networks for Causal Inference” at ICML 2026 in Seoul. The paper asks a simple question: when PFNs are used for causal inference, do their uncertainty estimates actually agree with classical frequentist inference?

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 03/07/2026

#ICML2026 kicks off in Seoul next week, and Vector is heading in with 73 accepted papers! Our researchers are presenting work across some of the most active areas in AI right now:

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 30/06/2026

Bias in AI training data doesn't disappear when you fine-tune the model. It gets learned, with rates measured as high as 38.5 per cent in training datasets.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 18/06/2026

⏰ 4 days left for Winter 2027 Research Internships Deadline: Monday, June 22 at 1:00 p.m. ET Final chance to: 🔬 Work with Vector Faculty 🌟 Access to IMPACT mentorship 🤝 Build professional skills and network 📚 Gain career development support Apply this weekend: vectorinstitute.ai/research-tal...

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UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship @uoftschmidtai.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚀 Are you ready to join the next generation of AI experts? 🚀 Now is the time to apply for the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Toronto! ➡️ Valued at CAD $85,000 per year, for two years ➡️ Apply by October 5, 2026 schmidtfellows.utoronto.ca/apply/

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 09/06/2026

Big progress in autonomous AI systems can come from an unexpected place: foundational ideas hiding in plain sight Dillon was a Research Intern working on long-horizon planning and sequential decision making – research that connects directly to efficiency, safety, and reliability in AI autonomy

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 27/05/2026

Final notice for the Vector Institute's Fall 2026 Applied Internship! This is a significant opportunity to gain hands-on experience in applied AI before the application window closes. Apply by Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 PM ET: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 25/05/2026

During his internship, Ahmed Radwan built AI bias-detection tools used in health care and hiring settings. A hands-on experience building AI systems that protect real people Applications for Vector's Fall 2026 Applied Internship Program are open now until May 28 👇 vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/05/2026

Sunehra Sarwar went from intern to leading an AI project with a crisis helpline to joining Vector's Health AI team as an Associate Project Manager. Real projects. Real career paths. Three Applied AI Internship roles open for Fall 2026. Applications close May 28 👇 vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 14/05/2026

⏰ Final days to apply for Fall 2026 Research Internships Deadline: Tues May 19 @ 1pm 🔬 Work with Vector Faculty 🌟 IMPACT Mentorship program 🤝 Build your AI research network 📚 Gain professional development Apply this weekend: vectorinstitute.ai/research-tal... Winter 2027 open until June 22

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 14/05/2026

Vector's Fall 2026 Applied Internship Program is open 🚀 We have 3 paid roles available where you’ll work directly with Vector's professional teams on active AI implementation projects – with real industry and public sector partners. Apply by May 28: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 12/05/2026

Introducing the 2026-27 Vector Scholarship in AI recipients! 🌟 Congratulations to 100 exceptional graduate students across Ontario, each awarded $17,500 – $1.75 million invested in Canada's AI future. na3.hubs.ly/y0sQhx0

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 05/05/2026

What does a computer science researcher gain from a founder in molecular biology? For Vector Research Intern Shuting Xie, an IMPACT mentorship turned into a long-term collaboration. His mentor's domain knowledge in biology now grounds his ongoing research in real-world context.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 27/04/2026

We are pleased to announce two new open-source extensions to the Inspect framework for AI evaluation: MLflow and Podman extensions 🔧 These tools make it easier to assess how AI systems perform in practice.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 23/04/2026

Today marks the start of the world’s premier deep learning conference in Rio de Janeiro. Here’s some of the work Vector’s research community is bringing to #ICLR2026 👇🧵

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UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship @uoftschmidtai.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Featuring Mehdy Dousty, who is building RadioVision to sense how people move and interact in everyday environments using radio-frequency signals. As RadioVision has moved from research to startup, the mission is clear to build technology that performs reliably in the real world🚀.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/04/2026

Work alongside Vector Faculty Members on AI research that matters. Vector's Research Internships are now open for Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 – offering: 🔬 Hands-on research in computer vision, NLP, computational biology, robotics, and more 🌟 IMPACT Mentorship Program opportunity [1/2]

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University of Toronto Entrepreneurship @entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca · 07/04/2026

Join #UofT at #TorontoTechWeek on May 26 for the Desjardins Speaker Series with Reynold Xin, Co‑founder of Databricks. Reynold will share how his team built Databricks from an academic research project into a business with a global footprint. Register now: uoft.me/ttw-uoft-2026

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 01/04/2026

The mathematical foundations of AI security are still being written – and this week, that work was deeply collaborative A quick recap of Day 3 and the close of the Foundations of AI Security Symposium with University of Oxford and Schwartz Reisman Institute: Today’s focus was on what comes next 🧵

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UBC Science @science.ubc.ca · 30/03/2026

“I predict the AI Scientist actually marks the dawn of a new era of rapid scientific advances,” UBC computer scientist Dr. Jeff Clune claims, imagining humans reduced to curators witnessing #AI achieve scientific wonders. @cs.ubc.ca @vectorinstitute.ai www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

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AI wrote a scientific paper that passed peer review

The arrival of AI-generated research papers marks a turning point that could radically accelerate discovery—or drown it in automated mediocrity

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 31/03/2026

The mathematical foundations of AI security remain contested, but that’s not a failure – it’s the current state of the field. Two final presentations closed out Day 2 of our Foundations of AI Security Symposium with University of Oxford and Schwartz Reisman Institute 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 31/03/2026

Day 2 of our Foundations of AI Security Symposium with University of Oxford and Schwartz Reisman Institute continues The emerging theme: security challenges don’t exist in isolation, but come from interactions between system layers. 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 31/03/2026

Tom Lovett's presentation title captured the challenge: "(An attempt at) defining some mathematics of AI security." That framing set the tone for this morning's opening sessions at Day 2 the Foundations of AI Security Symposium – rigorous inquiry into problems that lack clean answers yet: 🧵

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 30/03/2026

Can we mathematically define AI security? That’s the question we tackled today, Day 1 of our Foundations of AI Security Symposium – a Canada-UK research collaboration co-hosted with University of Oxford and the Schwartz Reisman Institute.

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U of T Department of Computer Science @uoftcompsci.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

MacArthur Fellow and leading AI researcher Yejin Choi delivers The Art of (Artificial) Reasoning on April 16 as part of our Distinguished Lecture Series with the @vectorinstitute.ai. Hear insights on AI reasoning, model limitations and new approaches beyond scaling. Register: bit.ly/dls-yejin-choi

Event graphic for the C.C. “Kelly” Gottlieb Distinguished Lecture featuring Yejin Choi, titled “The Art of (Artificial) Reasoning,” at the University of Toronto.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/02/2026

Remarkable 2026 complete! 🌟 Thanks to our workshop leaders, 59 poster presenters & incredible community who brought the collaborative energy that drives Canadian AI leadership The conversations continue → innovations we can't imagine yet 🚀 Thank you all for making Remarkable 2026 truly remarkable

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/02/2026

🔬 50+ research posters at #Remarkable2026, spanning: + Voice-controlled surgery for global health + Ethical AI mental health support + Language model bias detection + Clean energy catalyst design + & many more The future of responsible AI innovation is unfolding here 🚀 #AICanBeRemarkable

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/02/2026

The conversations coming out of our Remarkable 2026 workshops are 🔥🔥🔥 Discussions are taking place around: 🔒 Privacy & Security – real-world deployment issues like the conflicting priorities of trustworthy AI

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 20/02/2026

Day 2 of Remarkable 2026 is exclusively in-person, and all about Research → Action 🔧 3 workshop tracks: 🔒 Privacy & Security 🤖 Agentic AI 🧠 LLM Frontiers + 59 research posters from across Vector’s community 🔬 Stay tuned for updates throughout the day! #Remarkable2026 #AICanBeRemarkable

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