A|I: The AI Times – Stability AI’s lead threatened by key departures, CEO concerns
Plus: OpenAI launches webcrawler as Zoom promises it won’t use your videos to train AI tools.
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Only one Canadian company made Bessemer’s Cloud 100 list
Plus: Canadian SaaS companies have acquisition fever.
F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech platforms are leaning more on buy now, pay later
Plus: Desmarais family quietly reshapes a financial empire.
OMERS Ventures exits Europe while Pinegrove looks to scoop up discount startups
Plus: 1Password only Canadian company to crack 2023 Cloud 100 list.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – How Y Combinator decides which health care startups are worth a shot
Plus: Silofit closes its doors, VoxNeuro raises $4.5M to scale brain performance.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify and Lightspeed bring positive earnings to pessimistic markets
Plus: Uber is finally making money after years of losses.
A|I: The AI Times – Canadian AI chip manufacturer closes $100M from global backers
Plus: Luge Capital’s David Nault on making investment decisions through the AI hype cycle.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Atlassian & Cloudflare score big, Zoom sends employees back into the office
Plus: Uber finally makes a profit.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo Financial goes all-in on partner credit cards, US regulators worry of Binance bank run
Plus: National Bank acquires Silicon Valley Bank’s Canadian commercial loan portfolio.
Canadian startup struggles continue with more layoffs, shutdowns
Plus: Do Canadian entrepreneurs take risks?
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify adds new merchant tools, loses long-time VP
Plus: Shein makes an aggressive pitch to woo US Amazon sellers.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Turnstone Biologics goes public, Dialogue Health to be acquired
Plus: Vital Bioscience reveals desktop blood tester with big backers.
A|I: The AI Times – Cohere releases Coral, Shopify unveils AI suite
Plus: Yoshua Bengio issues stark warning to U.S. Senate.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – OpenText’s acquisition of Micro Focus spurs IP and patent questions
Plus: Solink secures $60 million to scale cloud-based video surveillance service.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe to power Shopify’s new business credit card
Plus: How the partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured.