Does Anthropic want to eat your business?
Plus: How AI chatbots are being tricked into smear marketing.
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Xanadu visits the White House for quantum summit
Toronto quantum computing firm was the lone Canadian representative in attendance.
Well Health to spin out and publicly list pure-play software business on TSXV
Vancouver-based healthtech has been preparing to spin out Wellstar since 2024.
Canada’s telco and banking incumbents form AI consortium
Scotiabank, Sun Life, Telus, and Lightworks team up to build AI infrastructure at the enterprise level.
Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government
Province releases series of white papers explaining how it used Claude, Gemini to upgrade government systems.
Q&A: How InBC hopes to redefine its role in BC tech as a more strategic investor
CIO Thomas Park unpacks InBC’s shifting strategy and its push to fill the university-commercialization gap.
Descartes cruises into Latin America with acquisition of last-mile management platform Drivin
Waterloo-based logistics tech firm makes its 37th acquisition since 2016.
Katalyze AI thinks the future of pharma operations is teams of AI agents
WFHomie co-founder and former Sanofi leader close $10.5 million USD to speed drug development.
Canada’s Arctic defender looks south?
Plus: Shopify and Shopline settle copyright suit.
Shopify settles copyright lawsuit with rival Shopline
Shopify had accused Singapore-based Shopline of copying its e-commerce software.
Checking in on Canada’s digital sovereignty
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Digital elbows up
Cory Doctorow argues that the best way to reclaim our digital sovereignty is to jailbreak Canada.
AI can be the First Spike of Canada’s digital age
Alex Tapscott on what the Canadian Pacific Railway teaches us about building Canada’s next great national projects.
Minister Evan Solomon on Canada’s AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media
A special Canada Day edition of The BetaKit Podcast.
Stathera raises $55 million USD for semiconductor clock tech amid data centre boom
CEO says there’s “no reason” precision timing tech can’t be built in Canada.