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Ottawa is expanding its Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as the federal investment in the national program rises to $700 million over five years. The funding is intended to help businesses adopt AI and Canadian AI companies bring products to market, with priority sectors including health, energy, transport, agriculture and manufacturing. Separately, PrairiesCan has provided $2.5 million to expand an Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute program, bringing its federal support to $5.6 million and allowing it to work with 25 more Prairie businesses.