Questradeâs Salim Naran doesnât understand why more people arenât using AI for personal finance
At Toronto Tech Week, Naran said uptake of AI tools for financial management is âsurprisingly low.â
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How Aurmada threads the needle of fashion and defence tech
Toronto startup is developing kevlar base layers and sensor-equipped garments for soldiers and everyday consumers.
Arteria AI CEO Shelby Austin is wary of Canada naming national tech champions
Austin argues the country needs to âwiden our apertureâ and let the market pick winners.
Canadian startups face a home-market adoption problem, CentML co-founder says
Before it sold to Nvidia, Toronto AI startup struggled to find local adopters willing to take a risk.
Canadaâs forthcoming AI strategy aims to stop IP and value from leaving the country, parliamentary secretary says
Prime Minister Carney has confirmed that the long-delayed strategy will be released next week.
Quantum chemistry for drug discovery still hasnât had its âChatGPT moment,â biotech founder says
ProteinQureâs co-founder argues âmessy biology experimentsâ are still the bottleneck.
Raquel Urtasun wants Canada to go “all in” on physical AI
Waabi founder said at BetaKitâs Most Ambitious: Town Hall that Canada could lead the physical AI revolution.
Investor burn books and FaceTiming Serena Williams: three founder fundraising stories from Homecoming
CEOs of Float, Neo Financial, and Rebel told Homecoming attendees how they courted investors.
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 ârevolting.â
Jim Balsillie says Canada must put forward economic policy for the 21st century
CCI chair spoke on taking a lesson from US economic policy during BetaKitâs Most Ambitious: Town Hall.
Cohereâs Nick Frosst thinks Canadian energy can be â100 percentâ renewables
Growing Canadaâs domestic capacity was a focus of Homecomingâs sovereignty-themed panel.
Defence tech founders are frustrated with Canadaâs approach to âdual-useâ
At Arctic Edge conference, VCs offered a mea culpa while outlining why dual-use tech is here to stay.
Eliot Pence: Canadaâs defence buying timelines are âirrelevantâ for modern warfare
At Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Dominion Dynamics CEO said procurement must move in weeks, not decades.
Uberâs president doesnât know what the companyâs 10.5 million drivers will be doing in 15 years
Andrew Macdonald tells Toronto Tech Weekâs Homecoming that the gig appâs labour pool may soon start to shrink.
Why Shopifyâs CEO thinks the one-person company is âbullshitâ
But, as Tobi LĂŒtke said at Toronto Tech Weekâs Homecoming, those companies could still make a billion dollars.