# Canada to invest $150M in AI non-profit startup alongside Germany

https://mins.news/en/video/61608

- CBC News, 2026-09-16 20:01 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wv23h-3Mw

> On Wednesday, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon announced that Canada will put $150 million into LawZero, a nonprofit startup developing AI safeguards. Germany will contribute €100 million, or C$160.4 million. The announcement followed by days a dire warning from an Anthropic researcher leaving the company that AI could “kill all humans” by the end of the decade.

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