LawZero secures up to C$300m from Canada and Germany for safe AI research

On September 16, 2026, Yoshua Bengio’s nonprofit LawZero announced that Canada and Germany pledged up to C$300 million in joint funding to support its "Scientist AI" safety program and sovereign compute infrastructure. On September 17, additional coverage detailed that the grants will finance a Berlin office, expanded research staff and dedicated Canadian data centers for monitoring frontier models.