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A|I: The AI Times – Zuckerberg flexes Meta’s power on the AI market

Plus: Cohere investor Thomvest Ventures closes $250M fund.

Startup offers fraud protection tech to the music industry.

Plus: 7shifts cuts 19 percent of staff in new layoffs to start 2024.

ArcTern’s LPs include TD, CPPIB, Allianz, OPTrust, Church Pension Group, and Credit Suisse.

1Password, Trulioo, Shopify are all looking to beef up their sales teams.

Vistara Growth recently closed $200 million for its fifth private credit fund.

ActiveState, Acuity Insights, AnalytixInsight, Volaris Group, Flashfood also named new CEOs just this week.

Plus: SAP faces hefty fines, Salesforce and Slack might be pausing tech/product hiring.

CFIB claims as many as one-third of businesses won’t be able to make loan forgiveness deadline.

Good Chemistry’s CEO and team will join SandboxAQ’s simulation teams.

Seven of the 13 Canadian cleantech companies hail from British Columbia.

Requity aims to help renters become homeowners in markets outside of Toronto and Vancouver.

Plus: Untether AI names Intel veteran Chris Walker as its new CEO.

Ross Wainwright departs after four years with the company formerly called Vision Critical.

BenchSci confirmed to BetaKit that it laid off 17 percent of its workforce.