A new report titled 'Pacing the Frontier' argues that despite widespread agreement among AI leaders that development may need to slow down, there is no clear technical or policy framework for how to actually do it. Coauthor Raymond Douglas of the University of Toronto says the field needs to treat slowdown as an unsolved research problem rather than a vague aspiration, especially as fears grow over AI systems being used to build even more powerful successors.
wired.com
· 2026-09-18
JustWatch, best known as a guide for finding where to stream content, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it will launch its own platform called JustWatch TV in October. The service will offer three tiers: a free ad-supported option, rental/purchase titles, and a paid ad-free subscription, with initial content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street. It will launch across the US, UK, Canada, and several European and Oceania markets, with plans to expand further.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-15
Following Marvel's stalled Blade reboot, star Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq have teamed up on a new film called Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film follows a devout Muslim hitman who must raise three children, including a newborn, after his wife's death while his violent past resurfaces.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-13
At TIFF, Laika crew members detailed technical advances behind their upcoming stop-motion film Wildwood, due in theaters next month. The studio credited digital frame-grabbers that let animators review recently shot frames for smoother movement, plus improved internal puppet mechanisms called breathers that simulate lifelike breathing in nearly all major characters.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-12
Project Blinkenlights, started by the Chaos Computer Club in 2001 with the Haus des Lehrers installation in Berlin, has expanded into a series of large-scale interactive light installations across three continents, including Arcade in Paris, Stereoscope in Toronto, and the newer color-capable Polychrome. The project also offers a Movie Converter tool letting anyone turn their own videos into low-resolution GIFs or WebP animations matching the installations' pixelated style.
blinkenlights.de
· 2026-09-11
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its annual lineup, featuring new work from Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Werner Herzog, and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary. Among the festival's early standouts is 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' starring John Turturro as an aging, technophobic thief navigating a city that has moved on to smartphones. The film hits theaters October 30th.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-11
A new NBER working paper by researchers including Baker examines the long-run impact of a universal child care program, focusing on outcomes for mothers rather than just children. The study draws on data analyzed through the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, using British Columbia's research infrastructure to assess how access to subsidized child care shaped mothers' economic trajectories over time.
nber.org
· 2026-09-09
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that many high-output professionals experience anxiety and restlessness when they finally stop working over Labor Day, rather than relief. The author traces the holiday's origins to an 1872 Toronto printers' strike for a nine-hour workday, noting that the freedom to actually stop has never fully arrived for many workers today. Instead of feeling refreshed, people often crash into stress once the pressure that masked exhaustion disappears.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-05
The Toronto Blue Jays posted an animated promotional clip for a Nestea brand partnership that showed telltale signs of AI generation, including garbled text and a character with three arms. When fans called out the flaws, the team's social media account insisted the video was made by a real animator, a claim a community note later disputed.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-03
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