Canada’s music rights defender sues AI song generator Suno
SOCAN is accusing the platform of infringing on Canadian artists like Tom Cochrane, Avril Lavigne.
How did 1,200 OpenAI agents go rogue?
Plus: Xanadu turns a soup factory into a quantum hub.
Has the AI “techlash” reached Canada?
Plus: Google shakes up DeepMind.
U of T professor Jacob Tsimerman, who won math’s highest prize, to join OpenAI
Fields Medal winner says AI safety is the most important issue of our time.
An OpenAI model hacks Hugging Face
Plus: Ontario’s AI tool is accused of punishing Black prisoners.
Which LLMs are secretly Canadian?
Plus: OMERS Ventures head departs for Kensington.
General Fusion begins trading on Nasdaq, becomes first nuclear fusion company to go public
Richmond, BC-based firm hopes to make nuclear fusion power plants commercially viable.
Silicon Valley hits Calgary Stampede
Plus: Canada isn’t Delaware’s waiting room.
Does Anthropic want to eat your business?
Plus: How AI chatbots are being tricked into smear marketing.
Checking in on Canada’s digital sovereignty
Plus: More BetaKit in your inbox, every Wednesday.
Edmonton’s digital Nostradamus, and the early-stage funding gap
Plus: Why Manitoba is saying no to large-scale data centres.
Saskatoon angel investor Jesse Wiebe charged with indecent act while unlawfully entering home
Canadian Startup Capital Association founder recently publicly shared struggles with sobriety and mental health.
US foreign access ban on Anthropic models puts control over AI in the spotlight
Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez: “It’s a massive wake-up call.”
Tech’s World Cup takeover
Plus: Canada’s new FinTech unicorns.
Is Canada’s AI strategy a plan of action?
Plus: Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun explains the coming Physical AI revolution.