Leaders discuss the right speed for innovation and regulation at Remarkable AI conference
Vector Institute event also explored the role of reinforcement learning and Canada’s compute needs.
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Healthtech Connex snags $3.7 million from PacifiCan to help measure brain health
Surrey, BC life sciences firm plans to expand sales in North America, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand.
TandemLaunch closes $37-million Fund IV to create and back deep tech startups
Through VCCI, feds support the firm’s plans to launch new Montréal companies.
Promise Robotics opens second factory to help increase Canadian housing supply
Calgary plant for home builder robots expected to start production this summer.
Using AI, University of Toronto team claims development of strongest nanomaterial yet
Team claims the nanomaterial can support over a million times its mass.
Hyperlume raises $17.8-million seed round to commercialize its AI data centre tech
Ottawa startup claims its microLEDs achieve significant gains in performance, cost, and energy efficiency.
Sherbrooke’s quantum sector gets $8.1-million boost from federal government
Quantum error-correction startup Nord Quantique to put $1.8 million toward quantum computer assembly lab.
A piece of Canadian tech history just expired
Plus: Cohere sued for alleged copyright infringement.
Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.
Crowd Control: PixMob lit up this year’s Super Bowl stands
PixMob helped Kendrick Lamar tell Drake “game over” during Sunday’s halftime show.
Reliant on US materials and production, Canadian consumer goods startups could be caught in trade war crossfire
Pet food company Healthybud says Canada’s retaliatory tariffs will take a bigger bite out of its margins.
Emmertech leads Rayhawk seed round to automate dangerous rail car loading work
Rayhawk’s proprietary technology automates opening, inspecting, closing, and sealing railcars lids.
SRTX temporarily lays off 40 percent of staff ahead of US tariff “worst-case scenario”
Sheertex tights maker says tariffs could slap 41-percent duty on some shipments to US.
Waabi inks partnership with investor Volvo to develop and deploy self-driving trucks
CEO says deal gives Waabi next puzzle piece it needs for autonomous trucking at scale.
Startup support networks ventureLAB and The Firehood appoint new leaders
The Firehood gains new executive director while ventureLAB selects head of medtech initiatives.