Our social, economic, and political systems patch vulnerabilities at a human pace. Artificial intelligence operates at computer speed. On October 22, security technologist Bruce Schneier will outline why this speed disparity matters. In Conversations in Computing: Hacking AI, he will explore how AI models are discovering and exploiting loopholes in human rule systems, from tax codes to financial markets. Join Vector, @UofTCompSci, and @TorontoSRI for this in-person discussion: 📅 Thursday, Oct. 22 at 5:00 - 7:00 p.m 📍 Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, Toronto ℹ️ Free admission, registration required. Reserve your seat: na3.hubs.ly/y0GtsL0

Are you applying for AI master’s programs in Ontario? Here’s how to put yourself in the running for an entrance scholarship with serious industry access. For the 2027–28 academic year, the Vector Scholarship in AI (VSAI) increases to a $21,000 entrance award. Recipients also step straight into Canada’s most active AI ecosystem. Here’s what VSAI recipients gain: 👇

How does cognitive science help us build better AI? At our 2026 AI Summit and Career Fair, Vector Faculty Member @KelseyRAllen broke down how human cognition exposes the limits of state-of-the-art systems, and how we can fix them. 🧵👇

Emmanuella Akowuah joined Vector earlier this year as a Marketing and CRM Operations Intern. During her term, Emmanuella led the creation of an event eligibility framework that improved decision-making consistency and built hands-on confidence in data validation. Her IMPACT mentor helped align her technical skills with long-term industry opportunities. Today, she is our full-time Marketing Data and Operation Coordinator.

That’s a wrap on the 2026 AI Summit and Career Fair! From the fascinating insights on the main stage to an electric afternoon of networking and connecting on the Career Fair floor, today showed exactly why Ontario is a global destination for AI innovation and home to some of the world’s greatest and most promising AI talent. Huge thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, and all the attendees who joined us in person and online. Want to stay in the loop on future events, research breakthroughs, and AI career opportunities? Sign up for our newsletter: vectorinstitute.ai/#newslett…

The standard graduate application process is backward. You spend months researching programs, navigating faculty pages, and emailing professors who may or may not respond. You pay hundreds of dollars in application fees. Then you wait to find out if a lab actually has space, funding, or any interest in your research. Great AI research starts with the right supervisor match. The process should too. 🧵

Retaining top AI talent in Canada requires strategic operational frameworks. During her Winter 2026 term, Program Development and Stakeholder Outreach Intern Sana Shams helped Vector’s Postdoctoral Fellows translate advanced research into permanent faculty appointments.

Step directly into Canada’s premier AI network and advance your career by deploying AI solutions alongside leading researchers and industry partners 🚀 Applications are officially open for the Vector Institute Winter 2027 Applied AI Internship Program!

Vector's 2025-26 Annual Report just dropped! Our research community earned significant recognition this year, with Faculty Members @A_Aspuru_Guzik, @shaibendavid5, and @BoWang87 elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and Vector Faculty member @NicolasPapernot receiving the 2025 Steacie Prize – to name a few. Meanwhile, our community of over 1,000 AI published over 450 papers at the world's most competitive global AI conferences and journals. Working to translate those innovations into real-world solutions, we delivered more than 94,000 hours of knowledge transfer to more than 30 industry sponsors this year, supported almost 300 startups across the country through Vector's FastLane program, and more! Read the full report: na3.hubs.ly/y0z4y40 Huge thanks to every researcher, partner, and sponsor making this possible. Together, we're turning Vector's AI research into real progress for the economy and for Canadians.

RBC announces renewed sponsorship with Vector 🎉 Nine years ago, @RBC was among the first organizations to join Vector to advance AI research, innovation, and talent development across the country. We’re excited to continue our collaboration and advance AI for Canada. Read the full announcement: na3.hubs.ly/y0yXhq0

Congratulations to Vector Faculty Member Sanja Fidler and the full team of co-authors on receiving an @icmlconf Outstanding Paper Honourable Mention for their spotlight paper, Motion Attribution for Video Generation! It's especially nice to see the collaboration across Vector's community: Jonathan Lorraine did his doctoral research at Vector Faculty Member David Duvenaud's lab, while Jun Gao is a former Vector researcher and Vector Scholarship in AI recipient. This research was also supported by one of our sponsor companies, NVIDIA. Well done on this well-deserved recognition, and to all other award winning papers this week! Learn more about this project at na3.hubs.ly/y0xm710.