Saris raises $28.8-million USD Series A to automate banks’ back offices
Canadian founders of YC-backed Oohlala Mobile return with new startup.
AI
Award-winning author Ken Liu is not afraid of AI slop
Liu is fine with AI coding, but finds the notion of it writing stories for him “revolting.”
Cohere’s Nick Frosst thinks Canadian energy can be “100 percent” renewables
Growing Canada’s domestic capacity was a focus of Homecoming’s sovereignty-themed panel.
“Not a blip”: AI was Canada’s venture market mover in 2025
Osler Deal Points Report found that AI captured 54 cents of every Canadian venture dollar last year.
Uber’s president doesn’t know what the company’s 10.5 million drivers will be doing in 15 years
Andrew Macdonald tells Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming that the gig app’s labour pool may soon start to shrink.
Why Shopify’s CEO thinks the one-person company is “bullshit”
But, as Tobi Lütke said at Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming, those companies could still make a billion dollars.
Canada’s AI minister says he’s more worried about creating unicorns than monopolies
Speaking at BetaKit’s Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Evan Solomon said he wants to reward companies taking risks.
Databricks and Ada execs on what’s fuelling the Gen Z AI backlash
Reynold Xin and Mike Murchison say there is space for students to reframe their relationship to AI.
At Upper Bound, AI experts debate what it means to be a person
Richard Sutton says machines aren’t persons yet, but will be someday.
Canada’s AI champion Cohere is standing up the load-bearing walls of our economy
The Toronto AI firm says that these days, the Canadian flag is a good brand.
At Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Canadian tech’s future came into sharper focus
Canada’s AI minister, leaders of Waabi and Xanadu spoke to sold-out crowd at BetaKit’s TTW kickoff event.
Peripheral establishes first biomechanics basketball shooting lab in Toronto
U of T robotics grads and ex-racecar builders return to apply self-driving tech to sports.
Cohere releases its most powerful AI model as open source
As open-source AI becomes concentrated in China, Cohere says it wants to provide a secure alternative.
Canada injects millions into AI research program amid “global war” for talent
A $24-million investment will support 20 new appointees to CIFAR’s AI Chair program.
Lightspeed completes year one of transformation plan with revenue beat, earnings miss
Retail tech firm focuses on key markets with share price down 20 percent on the year.