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Alex Riehl

Alex Riehl

Alex Riehl is an Ottawa-based staff writer and newsletter curator at BetaKit. His main interests are in tech, gaming, and sports. You can follow his sports takes @alexriehl.com on Bluesky and reach him by email Alex.Riehl@betakit.com or Signal: @riehlalex.99.

Ottawa plans to spin off federal semiconductor facility into “commercial entity”

May 4, 2026

The NRC’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre is the only facility of its kind in North America.

Q&A: Why the threat of Anthropic’s Mythos demonstrates the need for sovereign AI

May 4, 2026

CIRA VP Jon Ferguson on how the Project Glasswing preview could leave Canadian firms out in the cold.

Former defence minister Harjit Sajjan’s new startup lays groundwork for public listing

May 1, 2026

Juno Industries has secured $12 million in commitments to list on TSVX in reverse takeover deal.

Canadian co-founded Featherless AI secures $20 million USD to build open-source AI infrastructure

April 30, 2026

Company can deploy more than 30,000 open-source AI models through a single API.

AI developers not meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ users, report suggests

April 29, 2026

Industry group says some survey responses from AI developers were malicious, hateful, and homophobic.

Lightspeed offloads Upserve at a discount as transformation plan continues

April 29, 2026

Montréal-based payments firm sells US hospitality business for nearly $350 million less than it paid.

Q&A: Kepler’s CEO on Canada’s space ambitions and the best Toronto Tech Week eats

April 29, 2026

Mina Mitry talks launching the world’s first optical relay satellite network ahead of Toronto Tech Week appearance.

Koho users can now buy, hold, and manage crypto

April 29, 2026

Toronto FinTech aims to lower crypto’s barrier to entry through a partnership with exchange Ndax.

AI strategy pillars, new SMB procurement program revealed in Canada’s Spring Economic Update

April 28, 2026

However, critics say focus on trade and defence has left little attention for innovation.

Global payroll platform Borderless AI now lets employees get paid in crypto

April 24, 2026

Toronto startup says the tool aims to cut the hassle and cost of moving money after payroll lands.

Cohere to acquire Germany’s Aleph Alpha in sovereign AI play

April 24, 2026

Combined company will bear Cohere name with Aidan Gomez leading as CEO.

BDC’s new $500-million loan program will help smaller businesses adopt AI

April 24, 2026

The LIFT initiative offers loans of up to $5 million for businesses to buy AI applications.

Biossil exits stealth with $70 million USD to give failed medicines a second chance

April 23, 2026

Toronto-based biotech startup counts OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Staircase Ventures as backers.

The man who helped build five generations of wireless retires from Ericsson’s Ottawa lab

April 23, 2026

Marcos Cavaletti helped guide the company into the 5G era. After 40 years, he’s finally logging off.

Canada’s AI regulation will be “airtight” on bias, racism, and hate, Solomon says

April 21, 2026

At QueerTech breakfast, AI minister says feds will regulate lightly on innovation and tightly where harms emerge.

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