H|T: The Healthtech Times – Recursion secures $50M from Nvidia following Canadian drug-discovery acquisitions
Plus: Ditch Labs wants to treat nicotine addiction with tech.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify wants to give you an AI Sidekick
Plus: Sampler acquires Admass’s tech to integrate UGC and AI into platform.
A|I: The AI Times – FTC investigates OpenAI as Elon Musk launches competitor
Plus: Shopify teases AI assistant for entrepreneurs, Sidekick.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hypercontext’s HR pivot looks to accelerate performance reviews with AI
Plus: UK probing Adobe’s $20 billion Figma deal.
F|T: The FinTech Times – WonderFi completes three-way merger in landmark Canadian crypto deal
Plus: Dapper Labs makes third round of layoffs, Revolut loses $20M to theft.
Canada attracts 30,000 tech workers, BDC wants Thrive co-investment partners
Plus: Shopify is building entrepreneurs an AI Sidekick.
Three game-development companies hiring in Canada
Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Amazon are hiring for their game-development teams.
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI has a new team to fight ‘superintelligent’ AI
Plus: Experts and VCs disagree on the actual perils of AI.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Spotify CEO’s Neko Health gets some big-name backers
Plus: There’s a $10M bounty to integrate AI into food production.
R|T: The Retail Times – Uber, DoorDash, Grubhub sue NYC over minimum pay law
Plus: Italian food service Porta raises $10.5M to fill a General Assembly-sized hole.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Dye & Durham accuses startup rival of ripping off its software
Plus: Vantage Circle and Eventcombo are moving HQs to Calgary.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Binance unravelling, Kraken founder investigated by FBI
Plus: Mastercard’s new AI tool helps British banks tackle scams.
Restructuring is here for Canadian startups as VC funding dries up
Plus: Two global SaaS firms relocate HQs to Calgary.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Iodine Software teams up with OpenAI on AI tech for hospitals
Plus: DOJ charges 78 in sweeping $2.5B healthcare fraud takedown.
R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon faces FTC antitrust case and free returns backlash
Plus: Meet the Shopify Ventures portfolio.