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Why the infrastructure behind AI-enabled SaaS matters to Canadian startups

What startups should know about how AI providers handle their data, performance, and costs.

Mark Carney gave an update on Canadian trade to 23 organizations, but they aren’t saying what they discussed.

U of T science student closes $2.6 million USD to enable quantum computing and fusion.

Tech and innovation event is also introducing new programming tracks focused on sovereignty and emerging trends.

Firat Eren plans to make TikTok twinfluencers Martin and Josip Kristo the new face of the company.

Plus: Xanadu turns a soup factory into a quantum hub.

Toronto firm lands $195-million loan in Canada’s largest quantum manufacturing investment.

Most recruits come from the US, bringing talent from places like Cornell, Harvard, Yale, and MIT.

Canada’s most overrated tech company? Keeping young founders in the country? Is BlackBerry making a comeback?

Toronto firm says fresh financing gives it another $60 million CAD to deploy.

Plus: Meta agrees to make some big changes.

New CEO plans to push for clearer rules as he brings more financial products to Canadians.

Firm holds $500,000 first close for fund to back early-stage companies led by underrepresented entrepreneurs.

Cohere study shows one in three executives have difficulty describing sovereign AI.

Toronto firm is now delivering space compute capabilities to commercial and government partners.