{"id":9854,"date":"2026-01-20T04:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/microsofts-ai-deal-promises-canada-digital-sovereignty-but-is-that-a-pledge-it-can-keep\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:02:28","slug":"microsofts-ai-deal-promises-canada-digital-sovereignty-but-is-that-a-pledge-it-can-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/microsofts-ai-deal-promises-canada-digital-sovereignty-but-is-that-a-pledge-it-can-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Microsoft&#8217;s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Over the past year, few words have been abused as much as &#8220;sovereignty,&#8221; particularly in relation to Canadian digital policy and artificial intelligence. In early December, Microsoft promised to invest more than $7.5 billion over the next two years to build &#8220;new digital and AI infrastructure&#8221; in Canada. This investment is backed by a pledge that it will &#8220;stand up to defend&#8221; Canadian digital sovereignty.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-microsoft-ai-canada-digital-sovereignty.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep? Over the past year, few words have been abused as much as &#8220;sovereignty,&#8221; particularly in relation to Canadian digital policy and artificial intelligence. In early December, Microsoft promised to invest more than $7.5 billion over the next two years to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}