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Canadian AI leadership: New Business at OECD report spotlights TELUS as leader in workforce AI literacy

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Report features insights from global industry leaders informing AI policy discussions and business strategies worldwide

TORONTO, March 25, 2025 /CNW/ – TELUS, a world-leading communications technology company, is the sole Canadian organization featured in the latest report from Business at OECD, Boosting Productivity and Business Growth – the Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Skills.

The report provides an analysis of the current state of AI skills development in both public and private sectors globally, as AI is rapidly transforming industries beyond the technology sector. TELUS is featured as a case study in the report, highlighting the company’s AI literacy efforts as key drivers of value across diverse lines of business, including TELUS Health, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, as well as the organization’s GenAI customer support tool, which is the world’s first to be ISO-certified Privacy by Design. TELUS’ extensive data and AI literacy program supports its 30,000 team members through engaging learning content developed internally and with partners, equipping and empowering them with essential data skills so they can safely and confidently integrate GenAI into their workflow.

“TELUS has long recognized the value of advancing the data and AI skills of our team members to enable safe innovation with data in a way that benefits our customers, communities and business,” said Pam Snively, Chief Data & Trust Officer at TELUS. “With technology advancement happening so quickly, data and AI literacy – alongside robust data governance and respect for privacy – are non-negotiables if we want to unlock AI’s potential and drive productivity in a trustworthy way. We’re proud to share our insights with the OECD and contribute to AI policy discussions.”

Business at OECD (BIAC) is the officially recognized institutional business stakeholder at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) with national business and employers’ federations representing over 10 million companies to provide perspectives to cutting edge policy debates that shape market-based economies and impact global governance.

“The integration of AI skills across diverse sectors is crucial for driving productivity and innovation in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape,” said Nicole Primmer, Deputy Executive Director, Policy and Strategic Engagement, Business at OECD (BIAC). “We appreciate TELUS’ commitment to AI literacy and responsible implementation as a best practice fostering AI skills that boost productivity, while addressing ethical considerations.   Their emphasis on a diversity of skills also shows how AI may serve to enhance creativity and strategic thinking. Their approach importantly highlights how business is making efforts to empower their workforce to harness AI’s potential responsibly and effectively.”

The report recommends a continuous learning approach for both private and public sectors, acknowledging that as AI becomes ubiquitous across industries, AI skills are critical for boosting productivity, streamlining processes, and maintaining competitiveness.

To access the report: click here.

For more information about TELUS’ AI initiatives and commitments to responsible AI, visit www.telus.com/ResponsibleAI.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a world-leading communications technology company, generating over $20 billion in annual revenue with more than 20 million customer connections through our advanced suite of broadband services for consumers, businesses and the public sector. We are committed to leveraging our technology to enable remarkable human outcomes. TELUS is passionate about putting our customers and communities first, leading the way globally in client service excellence and social capitalism. Our TELUS Health business is enhancing 76 million lives worldwide through innovative preventive medicine and well-being technologies. Our TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods business utilizes digital technologies and data insights to optimize the connection between producers and consumers. Guided by our enduring ‘give where we live’ philosophy, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $1.8 billion in cash, in-kind contributions, time and programs including 2.4 million days of service since 2000, earning us the distinction of the world’s most giving company. For more information, visit telus.com or follow @TELUSNews on X and @Darren_Entwistle on Instagram.

Emily Piccinin
emily.piccinin@telus.com
TELUS Public Relations 

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FYERS Launches FIA: India’s First AI-Powered Screener Creator for Traders

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BENGALURU, India, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ —  FYERS, a tech-driven stockbroking platform, has announced the launch of FIA (FYERS Intelligent Assistant)—an AI-powered screener creator that enables traders to generate real-time stock screeners using Price, Volume, and Open Interest (OI) data through simple, natural language input.

Within just one week of launch, FIA users created over 1 lakh screeners, with the product achieving an 85% retention rate during its beta phase—underscoring its utility and strong early adoption among India’s trading community.

FIA lets traders bypass traditional filters and interact with market data through simple English queries like:

“Identify midcap stocks that are within 5% of their 52-week high, have higher-than-average volume today (compared to the 20-day average), and have shown strong volume activity over the past week.”

FIA delivers instant results from live market data, making it easier for traders to discover opportunities without the complexity of conventional tools.

“The markets move fast, and so should insights. With FIA, we’re bringing AI into trading in a way that’s actually useful—built around how traders think and work,” said Tejas Khoday, Co-founder and CEO of FYERS. “It’s not about replacing human decisions but enhancing them by making data instantly accessible. Our aim is to reduce friction, so traders can focus on trade ideas, discovery and execution instead of wasting time by navigating complex tools.”

Key Highlights: 

AI-Powered Screener Creation: Generate custom screeners using natural languageBuilt for Price, Volume & OI: Focused on momentum and derivatives-driven tradingReal-Time Market Data: Immediate insights with live updatesStrong Early Traction: 1 lakh+ screeners created within one week; 85% retention

FIA is currently available in beta on the FYERS web platform, with mobile integration in development.

About FYERS:

Founded in 2015, FYERS is a Bengaluru-based stockbroking platform serving over 8.5 lakh traders and investors across India across retail, NRIs and institutional investors. Known for its trader-first tools and intuitive platform, FYERS also offers Portfolio Management Services (PMS) for HNIs and UHNIs focused on long-term wealth creation.

To learn more, visit https://fyers.in

 

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Ayre Ventures Increases Stake in Libraro, Bringing Total Investment to £1M to Accelerate Platform Growth and Industry Partnerships

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LONDON, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Libraro, the innovative platform bringing together writers, readers, and publishers today announced it has secured a follow-on investment from Ayre Ventures, bringing the total investment from Ayre to £1 million since its initial seed funding in October 2024.

The investment comes at a pivotal moment for Libraro, which has recently soft-launched its revolutionary platform that democratises the publishing industry by creating direct connections between aspiring authors, engaged readers, and forward-thinking publishers. Libraro has already signed Letters of Intent with several of the world’s largest publishing houses, underscoring growing industry confidence in its data-driven approach to discovering new literary talent. The team is also in ongoing discussions with leading literary agents.

Arsim Shillova, Co-Founder and CEO of Libraro, said, “This follow-on investment from Ayre Ventures is a strong vote of confidence in the foundation we’ve built since their initial seed commitment in October 2024. We’ve had an incredibly enthusiastic response from the writers we’ve engaged so far, and with the platform now live, we’re excited to be opening the doors to new talent. This funding enables us to scale our technology, grow our community, and deepen partnerships that will redefine how great stories are discovered and shared. The new funding will accelerate Libraro’s mission to empower authors and readers while providing publishers with powerful data-driven insights to discover tomorrow’s bestsellers.”

Ayre Ventures Founder Calvin Ayre celebrated the follow-on investment, saying, “Now more than ever, support for those who produce, distribute and consume the written word is crucial. Ayre Ventures is proud to support Libraro’s blockchain-based efforts to protect the rights of authors and publishers, and to help authors connect with their audiences.”

Strategic Leadership Expansion

To support its rapid growth, Libraro has strengthened its leadership team with four strategic hires who bring decades of combined experience from across the publishing ecosystem:

Head of Author Engagement: Former Head of Audience Development at HarperCollins, and a leading figure behind author and BookTok communities, supporting thousands of writers in navigating the publishing landscape.Head of Reader Engagement: Brings valuable reader-focused content strategy experience with HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan and commands a digital audience of over 30,000 readers.Head of Partnerships: Editor and co-founder of a leading publishing publication with a reach exceeding 300,000 writers globally, now spearheading Libraro’s industry alliance strategy.Incoming CTO: Brings deep expertise in AI and platform development, having led high-impact projects at globally recognised organisations including IBM, Unilever, and Cargill

These appointments mark a significant step in building Libraro’s influence across the literary ecosystem as it works to reshape how stories are discovered, shared, and published.

Revolutionary Technology

Libraro’s platform leverages blockchain technology to protect authorship, prevent copyright infringement, and enhance transparency in ownership and distribution rights. The platform’s Web3 loyalty program creates deeper engagement, building trust among readers, authors, and publishers alike.

The company’s innovative approach has already attracted significant attention within the publishing industry, with major partnerships in development with the UK’s largest writing agency, New Writing North.

About Libraro

At Libraro, every good story deserves a platform. We’re a community-driven platform where writers, readers, and publishers come together to discover, share, and celebrate great stories. Our mission is to give every voice the opportunity to be heard and ensure that meaningful stories reach the readers who’ll appreciate them.

www.libraro.com

About Ayre Ventures

Ayre Ventures, founded by renowned venture capitalist and philanthropist Calvin Ayre, provides funding to scalable, high-growth businesses that use frontier technologies like AI, IPv6 and Enterprise Blockchain—including BSV, the world’s only unboundedly scaling public proof-of-work enterprise blockchain. The Group targets investment in innovative ideas and ambitious projects that are “positively disruptive,” supporting their expansion with the Group’s extensive network and industry partners.

https://ayre.group/investments/

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Aitech Unveils World’s First AI-Enabled Picosatellite Constellation Platform Transforming Space-Based Intelligence for Military, Defense, Public Safety, Agriculture and Infinite Other New Markets

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New IQSat Brings AI Capabilities in Low-Cost COTS Platform for Low Earth Orbit Missions Powering Rapid Actionable Data and Insights Previously Unattainable

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — (Space Symposium, Booth #612) – Aitech, a leading provider of rugged embedded systems for military, aerospace and space platforms, today introduced the picosatellite (PicoSat) constellation platform, IQSat™. The IQSat is AI-enabled and includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) from Intuidex, Inc. incorporated in Intuidex’s Watchman for Space™ (W4S™) product for detecting and providing insight on patterns and anomalies for a range of applications, including public safety, agriculture, military, defense, climate, biology and more.

The World’s First AI-Enabled Picosatellite Constellation Platform, Aitech’s IQSat.

Built on Aitech’s 30 years of electronics legacy and trillions of miles flown in space, the IQSat is small enough to be held in the palm of a hand and can be deployed in a constellation of five to thousands. Offering coverage previously unattainable, IQSat is powerful enough to deliver actionable pattern of life analysis, rapidly and frequently, from any desired point on Earth.

“Space-based infrastructure solves big problems and fuels big advancements on Earth. The new IQSat platform is integral to space accessibility by delivering low cost, rapid deployment constellations that provide access to actionable information quickly and frequently for infinite applications,” said Pratish Shah, U.S. general manager, Aitech. “Whether used for military and defense, environmental or agricultural applications, communications or scientific research, the flexibility, cost and availability of a solution like IQSat has not existed before – providing more accessibility to the power of space.”

Leveraging Intuidex’s Watchman for Space product, the IQSat offers Higher-Order Low-Resource Learning™ (HO-LRL™) in support of rapid do-it-yourself user-based modeling, detection and tracking, pattern of life and anomaly detection, and constellation operations capabilities that enable new uses across a range of markets:

Military and Defense: With a low probability of intercept and low probability of detection, IQSat can deliver critical information on threat locations, directions and velocities in any area of interest at tactically significant update rates directly to the warfighterSpace Situational Awareness: With flexible sensor options and constellation configurations, IQSat brings low-cost capability to detect space debris to prevent space collisions and monitor orbital traffic, as well as detect changes in satellite trajectories or potential anti-satellite threatsSpace Habitat: Placed in the vicinity of Space Habitats, IQSat can deliver temperature, radiation levels and other data variables to evaluate structure integrity by detecting micro-meteorite impacts and material degradation or external surveillance to detect space debris collision threatsPublic Safety: A low-cost LEO constellation of IQSats can provide rapid detection of remote areas to identify natural disasters such as floods and fires; assist in remote search and rescue operations through detection of objects, locations and movement directly to the rescuer; or monitor infrastructure surveillance of dams, bridges and other structuresAgriculture: IQSat can assist farmers by delivering fast and frequent insight on soil, crops, disease, weather and other critical variables to help improve crop outputScience and Research: A constellation of IQSats can provide researchers and scientists with a low-cost solution for tracking unique weather patterns, monitoring wildlife migrations around the world, tracking ocean currents and wildlife and many more capabilities

The IQSat provides mission flexibility for quick and cost-effective constellation design, reducing delivery time and cost of custom sensing satellites and constellation configurations. Leveraging Watchman for Space, the IQSat platform dynamically updates its incident, event, object or threat detection priorities to meet ever-changing mission needs through uplinked software and configuration driven by users. Additionally, IQSat offers the industry’s first common payload interface designed to host multiple payloads on a single flexible electrical and mechanical interface, allowing for quick and standardized designs to reduce cost, NRE and time to launch.

Aitech is showcasing the new IQSat PicoSat constellation platform at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado in booth #612 from April 7-10.

The IQSat platform will be available in Q4 2025 for mission development and ready for LEO flight in Q1 2026. Based on mission needs, the IQSat offers:

Small size and ruggedized, standardized design for low-cost access to spaceRapid development and deployment to create constellations in monthsFlexible sensor options to meet a range of mission needsThe latest relevant information from areas of interest in minutes, with a constellation of thousands, frequent revisit rates and human-in-the-loop management in Watchman for SpaceHigh accuracy pattern of life and anomaly detection of incidents, events and items of interest through on-board AI/ML processing capabilities using HO-LRLLow uplink and downlink bandwidth utilization for rapid delivery of critical information directly to the point of need

To view the IQSat video simulation representative of the mission development model, visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuGB-BVnTbc. For more information, visit www.aitechsystems.com.

About Aitech
Leveraging four decades of experience providing reliable, rugged embedded solutions for use in military, aerospace and space platforms, Aitech is the world’s first independent, open systems architecture, COTS/MOTS innovator offering customized boards as building blocks for integrated computing and networking subsystems. Offering customization services for rugged and severe environments in military, aerospace and space applications, Aitech delivers mission-optimized and proven system solutions across Sea, Land, Air and Space domains. Aitech solutions are used by industry leaders like Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Rafael and Virgin Galactic.

Aitech is supporting a better tomorrow with highly reliable, cost-effective and proven rugged embedded solutions designed to meet your mission and platform requirements. For more information, please visit www.aitechsystems.com.

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