Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst wants to build more Canadian, less Silicon Valley-centric AI
Frosst talked efficiency, AGI, and his band Good Kid at AI conference and recent media dinner.
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PrairesCan invests $3 million in Black entrepreneurship
Funding will go to the Black Business Ventures Association and the African Canadian Civic Engagement Council.
Feds announce $6.5-million investment in Alberta defence manufacturing
Zero Point Cryogenics and Logican Technologies earn PrairiesCan investments to shore up defence supply chains.
Q&A: Why Alberta’s data centre strategy is drawing the attention of tech giants like Meta
Punchcard Systems’ Sam Jenkins on how Alberta is meeting the moment, and what it stands to gain or lose.
Toyo raises seed funding to further develop “OpenClaw for founders” tool
Company’s $4.3-million USD raise will help it give business leaders’ busywork to AI agents.
MDA Space makes defence-industry push with launch of 49North
CAE vet Joe Armstrong will lead subsidiary exclusively focused on Canada’s defence industry.
Capital concentrates as Canadian VC market narrows: report
Just 26 megadeals accounted for two-thirds of all dollars invested in 2025.
Québec has a new digital sovereignty plan. Will it work?
The $1.4-billion plan was tabled on the heels of a digital fiasco at the provincial auto board.
Q&A: Xanadu’s Christian Weedbrook on why quantum ought to be a national defence priority
CEO talks data centre dreams and ensuring Xanadu stays in Canada as it prepares to go public.
Wagepoint rolls out two new additions to its payroll software
Timesheets and My Wagepoint are aimed at streamlining and modernizing the payroll process.
Sheertex maker will be sold to fellow Québec hosiery company AYK
SRTX once employed 350 people. If the sale is approved, fewer than 10 will remain.
Why Canada’s defence spending should follow this Cold War blueprint
US military spending helped create your laptop. Can Canada make similar leaps?
“The world has changed”: Canada’s new Defence Industrial Strategy aims to reduce US dependency
PM lays out plan to buy domestically and partner with “trusted allies.”
Bank of Canada orders XTM to cease retail payment activities after investment regulator halts trading of its stock
Bank cites “serious concerns” that XTM failed to safeguard client funds as customers report missing money.
From Amharic to Zulu: Cohere’s new multilingual AI model supports more than 70 languages
Toronto scaleup says Tiny Aya can run in regions where large-scale infrastructure isn’t always available.