加拿大拟在一家总部位于多伦多的AI初创公司持股，最高达11亿美元，此举正值华盛顿的盟友加大力度，削减对美国技术的依赖。
Canada is taking an equity stake of up to $1.1 billion in a Toronto-based AI startup, as Washington’s allies intensify efforts to reduce their technological reliance on the US.
渥太华的举措效仿英国，英国财政大臣本周承诺采取“独具英国特色的AI方式”，并宣布拨款800亿美元设立主权AI基金，以支持欧洲最大科技领域的国内企业。
Ottawa’s push mirrors that of the UK, whose finance minister this week pledged to pursue “a distinctively British approach to AI,” and announced $80 billion for a sovereign AI fund to boost domestic firms in Europe’s largest tech sector.
唐宁街还计划向一家测试世界前沿AI模型的政府实验室再注资1.6亿美元，约为其美国对口机构年度预算的10倍，尽管大多数在摇摆州接受民调的美国选民表示强烈支持政府进行安全性测试。
Downing Street is also planning to inject another $160 million into a government lab testing the world’s frontier AI models — roughly 10 times the annual budget of its US counterpart, despite most American voters polled in swing states expressing strong support for government safety testing.
