Amiral Ventures holds $40-million first close to address “lack of leadership” in Canadian VC
Montréal firm backed by Québec government, Desjardins Capital, and nearly 50 individual LPs.
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Scale AI unveils $129 million for 44 new applied AI projects across Canada
AlayaCare, League, FluidAI Medical, MDA Space, and Vooban among recipients.
Startup investigation reveals 50 peer-reviewed papers contained AI-hallucinated citations
GPTZero found “obvious” instances of false, LLM-generated references in academic papers.
Coinbase Canada CEO Lucas Matheson to join former Shopify colleagues at Opendoor
Former Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian continues to poach Canadian tech talent.
Court order prompts Well Health, Healwell to hand over records in merger probe
Federal watchdog to investigate if takeover affects choice and cost to users.
Shopify merchants can now sell products through AI chatbots
Update announced in Shopify Editions newsletter that contained over 150 product updates.
She tried to bring Silicon Valley’s tech energy to Vancouver. Why did she leave to build a US startup instead?
Mai Trinh’s Internet Backyard nabs $4.5 million USD pre-seed for data centre financing platform.
Microsoft to spend $7.5 billion on AI data centre expansion with pledge to protect Canada’s “digital sovereignty”
President calls project “the most important commitment in Microsoft Canada’s history.”
Cohere announces partnership with Thales Canada amid defence tech push
Toronto company’s AI will help French defence contractor service Royal Canadian Navy fleets.
Canada’s AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon
Minister Evan Solomon sits down with C100 Executive Director Michael Buhr to discuss the country’s future in AI.
Tracktile banks on Maritime hospitality to scale its operations software for “messy” manufacturing
Charlottetown startup raises $1.25 million to help complex manufacturers understand and control their business.
Xposure Music’s $42.5-million USD raise will help it spot the next generation of streaming music stars
Montréal music buyer uses AI analytics to bet on long-term indie music success.
University of Toronto establishes AI research chair to recruit the next Geoffrey Hinton
Google and U of T are each providing $10 million to support the position.
Clio takes Alexi to court over database at the centre of billion-dollar vLex deal
Alexi denies misusing Fastcase data to build a competing platform.
Human Computer Lab wants the next home robot to be more Pixar lamp than laundry-folding butler
LeLamp creator is betting expression and emotion matter more than arms and legs.