Canada and Germany Each Commit Up to $150M to Bengio's LawZero Safety Monitor
AI Weekly (citing The Globe and Mail)·low signal
Canada and Germany each pledged up to $150 million, $300 million combined, to LawZero, the nonprofit Yoshua Bengio founded in 2025 to build AI safety monitoring systems. LawZero launched with roughly $30 million in philanthropic funding, so this is an order-of-magnitude jump and the first significant multi-government funding of an independent safety lab. Single-source at time of writing via the aggregator's citation of The Globe and Mail.