Experts: Google search to prioritize AI
Google聽has聽announced that it聽has聽overhauled聽its search engine to be entirely聽powered聽by its Gemini 3.5 Flash聽artificial intelligence聽model.聽Users will no longer聽be prompted to choose their search mode; instead, the search box聽will聽operate聽more like a聽conversation,聽with聽the option聽for users聽to聽ask聽follow-up聽questions.聽The changes聽are set to take effect on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.聽
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Desautels鈥� Samer Faraj earns renewal of Canada Research Chair
涩里番 has been awarded $18.1 million in federal funding to support 16 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. These appointments recognize leading scholars whose work advances discovery across disciplines, from fundamental science to pressing societal challenges. The program highlights 涩里番鈥檚 commitment to world-class research and long-term innovation with real-world impact.
Reimagining Canadian healthcare: 涩里番 launches initiative to transform how care is delivered
涩里番鈥檚 Initiative for Transforming Healthcare (ITH) is rethinking how Canada delivers care by putting organization, management, and coordination at the forefront of reform.
Quebec digital health record project faces rising cost concerns
Quebec鈥檚 long-awaited digital health record rollout is being presented as a major step toward more connected, modern health care. The system promises to reduce fragmented patient information and make it easier for records to follow patients across facilities.
涩里番 Desautels scholars named among Canada鈥檚 Best Business and Management Scientists 2026
Canada鈥檚 Best Business and Management Scientists 2026 ranking highlights leading 涩里番 scholars Yolande Chan, Henry Mintzberg, and Samer Faraj, recognizing their influential research in information systems, management theory and organizational dynamics that continues to shape business scholarship in Canada and int
涩里番 Desautels faculty honoured at Bravo Gala 2026
涩里番's annual Bravo Gala takes place on Thursday, May 7, celebrating research excellence and recognizing faculty members and researchers who have received awards, memberships, and prizes over the past year. 涩里番 Desautels is proud to celebrate three distinguished faculty members among this year's honourees:聽
As work moves toward the metaverse, new concerns about employee monitoring emerge
As organizations explore new digital frontiers,聽Emmanuelle聽Vaast, Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 涩里番, urges caution.
On the聽Delve聽podcast, she examines the prospect of working in the metaverse鈥攁 future that may be closer than we think.
Expert: Technology and gender-based violence
European non-profit AI Forensics聽published聽a report聽this week on how massive, organized聽user聽networks are spreading and monetizing non-consensual intimate images, including child sexual abuse material, on聽a聽popular聽private messaging app.聽The report, which聽focused聽on聽cross-border聽networks in Italy and Spain,聽also notes that content circulates across聽several聽well-known聽platforms.聽
Data held by US-based tech giants could make Canadians vulnerable to US government overreach
Tech giants play an increasingly聽important role聽in the economy and in our everyday lives, but companies like Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are all based in the United States.聽In聽an age of heightened geopolitical tensions, some are calling for greater domestic control over the digital infrastructure聽we鈥檝e聽all come to rely on.
涩里番 launches Initiative for Transforming Healthcare
涩里番 has unveiled the Initiative for Transforming Healthcare (ITH), a cross鈥憇ector effort aimed at tackling some of Canada鈥檚 most pressing system鈥憀evel healthcare challenges. Supported by $5.75 million in funding from Power Corporation of Canada, Canada Life and IGM Financial, the initiative will mobilize expertise from management, medicine and public policy to develop technology鈥慹nabled, evidence鈥慴ased solutions.
Lewtas Centre for Experiential Learning gives students hands-on opportunities
Some of our most important learning takes place outside of the classroom, and 涩里番 Desautels has made it a priority for students to have access to experiential learning opportunities.聽The聽Lewtas聽Office of Experiential Learning launched in 2021, thanks to the generosity of alum Don聽Lewtas聽(BCom鈥�75).
Professor Samer Faraj elected to France's Acad茅mie nationale de m茅decine
Prof. Samer Faraj has been elected Membre Associ茅 茅tranger of the Acad茅mie nationale de m茅decine, one of France's most prestigious scientific institutions. The academy's foreign associate membership, limited to 60 scholars worldwide, recognizes researchers whose work makes a significant contribution to health and medicine internationally.
AI red lines: who sets the limits in national security?
In a recent piece in The Conversation, Professor Emmanuelle Vaast聽examines the growing tensions between the use of artificial intelligence in warfare and surveillance. The discourse is prompted by a decision from AI company Anthropic, whose CEO refused to grant the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI systems.
Employers want MBA grads to be AI-literate
The world of business is changing, and MBA programs are changing with it. Employers now expect new hires to arrive with strong AI skills, and since January 2025, AI has been part of the curriculum at 涩里番 Desautels. 鈥淚t鈥檚 unavoidable,鈥� Associate Professor of Information Systems Genevi猫ve Bassellier told聽Les Affaires.
Resurfacing online 鈥榗hallenge鈥� linked to surge in lug nut incidents
A surge of reports about loosened lug nuts on vehicles across Quebec has raised alarm among drivers and authorities, with some linking the dangerous trend to a resurfacing social聽mediamedia聽鈥渓ug nut challenge.鈥澛燛mmanuelle Vaast, professor of information systems at 涩里番鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, warns that even minimally viral trends can become dangerous.
