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Canadian angels just want to write the cheque
Plus: Cohere Labs head calls “unreliable” AI leaderboard rankings a “crisis.”
The best political party for Canadian tech
Plus: Prime Minister Mark Carney almost worked at Shopify.
Canadian VCs have performance anxiety
Plus: Yoshua Bengio warns of agentic AI’s “catastrophic risks.”
Canadian tech makes federal election asks
Plus: BetaKit’s “Most Ambitious” issue launches in June.
Microsoft thinks AI agents will eat the world
Plus: Shopify, Lightspeed among Canadian tech stocks dragged down by tariffs.
Are you going to Web Summit Vancouver?
Plus: Québec overhauls innovation tax credits, Ontario called to prioritize provincial procurement.
The future of Canadian tech runs through Waterloo
Plus: How meaningful is D-Wave’s claim to quantum supremacy?
Did Cohere give Canada its DeepSeek moment?
Plus: An innovation agenda for the next election.
Y Combinator is stealing Canadian startups
Plus: Richard Sutton wins Turing Award, SDTC funding is flowing again.
Canada wants a whole-of-society approach to cybersecurity
Plus: a Canadian VC calls it quits, Shopify cozies up to US with new SEC filings.
Who are Canadian tech’s most ambitious?
Plus: BDC commits $1B as megadeals keep Canadian VC funding afloat.
A piece of Canadian tech history just expired
Plus: Cohere sued for alleged copyright infringement.
Canadian tech is up against a ticking tariff clock
Plus: Canadian tech leaders launch Build Canada.
An AI report to distract you from tariffs
Plus: Shopify CEO promises ‘buy local’ features in Shop app.