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Yoshua Bengio warns of “catastrophic risks” of agentic AI at World Summit AI

Madison McLauchlan April 16, 2025

Deep neural networks trailblazer recommends building non-agentic AI programs without goals of their own.

Jon Fingas April 16, 2025

Revenue deferral and a cyberattack kept the Canadian healthtech firm from reaching milestone.

Madison McLauchlan April 16, 2025

Toronto-based Alexa Translations draws on local talent to power new translation LLM.

Alex Riehl and Josh Scott April 16, 2025

Ruparell has spent the last year serving on Clutch’s board of directors.

Josh Scott April 16, 2025

After “intense” attempt to raise her own fund, Khera aims to back 25 to 30 deep tech startups with IRV.

Jacqueline Loganathan April 16, 2025

Why GlitchSecure walked away from a million-dollar deal—then raised even more.

Josh Scott April 16, 2025

Toronto insurtech startup is investing big in AI but cautious about implementation in “tricky” industry.

Jon Fingas April 15, 2025

Companies say the link adaptation tech is a first and could boost speed and capacity.

Alex Riehl April 15, 2025

Canada repurposes COVID-era emergency funding agency to provide loans for impacted large businesses.

Alex Riehl April 15, 2025

Cyclic now counts Amazon and Microsoft as backers after extending round for a second time.

Madison McLauchlan April 15, 2025

Agents will continue to be an important part of enterprise AI adoption, Cohere told BetaKit.

Josh Scott April 15, 2025

Trillick has closed nearly a third of its $15-million target and made three investments.

Alex Riehl April 14, 2025

John Ruffolo, Amar Varma, and Fairfax’s Prem Watsa among list of 33 signatories.

Madison McLauchlan April 14, 2025

Low-code software serves as a robot’s “synthetic brain,” according to the company.

Douglas Soltys April 14, 2025

More than 10,000 people expected to attend over 100 events across five days in June.