H|T: The Healthtech Times – Healthtech startups get DIGITAL funding for AI
Plus: Once worth $2.3B, COVID-19 test maker Cue Health shutters.
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R|T: The Retail Times – Gildan’s board resigns after months of boardroom battle
Plus: Shopify convinces US court to overturn 2022 patent-infringement decision.
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI’s “whether you like it or not” philosophy
Plus: Shopify’s Tobi Lütke will help advise Meta’s AI strategy.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Newfoundland’s CoLab to go on hiring spree with Series B funding
Plus: Thinkific has too much cash. That’s a real problem.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Bench and Shopify alumni get $11 million to launch “Stripe for accounting”
Plus: Neo Financial credit products will now report to Equifax.
Google has a glue problem
Plus: Xanadu wants another $200 million.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Uber Health rolling out caregiving solution in US
Plus: CloudMD to go private after acquisition spree dries liquidity.
R|T: The Retail Times – The Shopify exec paid more than Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein
Plus: Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva sheds interim label from CEO title and puts EBITDA in the green.
A|I: The AI Times – AI is jeopardizing Microsoft’s climate goals
Plus: OpenAI hemorrhages safety-conscious leaders, including Canadian Ilya Sutskever.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Squarespace to go private in $6.9 billion deal after hefty IPO
Plus: Figma shareholders to sell at a discount in Adobe deal fallout.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Canada an easy mark for international money laundering?
Plus: ZayZoon returns its services to Canada after years in the US.
The procurement problem in Canadian healthtech
Plus: The latest stats on Q1 startup funding.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Neuralink encounters its first problem in a human patient
Plus: Oracle’s $28-billion Cerner healthtech acquisition is losing clients.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify posts surprise Q1 loss, Lululemon under “greenwashing” investigation
Plus: What Tobi Lütke said at the BetaKit Town Hall.
A|I: The AI Times – The Toronto startup using quantum chemistry to clean the world’s water
Plus: Vector awards $2 million in AI scholarships for top Ontario graduate students.