Q&A: Feeding the world from Canada
Justine Hendricks on Canada’s “generational opportunity” to elevate its food production with innovation.
Ontario
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.
Sentinel inks partnership to supply drones to Ukraine
Sentinel will partner with Kyiv’s Airlogix in deal supported by Canadian and Ukrainian governments.
The next-generation software powering GM’s vehicles is being built in the GTA
Senior Manager explains how General Motors built the largest automotive engineering centre in Canada.
WonderFi clears final regulatory hurdle to be acquired by Robinhood
More than a year after inking the deal, it’s finally slated to close on June 1.
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.
Cold front
Dominion Dynamics aims to become Canada’s first line of defence in the Arctic.
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.
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada’s largest grassroots tech event
Co-directors Julia Konefal and Mell Truong explain how TTW went from experiment to 600 events in just two years.
BEA wants to help co-founders LiinkUP at Toronto Tech Week
Co-Founder Connect lands in Toronto on May 28 to help engineer the perfect founder pairings.
Intuit lays off 17 percent of its global workforce
TurboTax parent puts resources behind “big bets” that come with strategic AI focus.
Xanadu strikes deal to raise up to $300 million USD
Toronto firm announces the deal the same day it claims quantum breakthrough.
Quantum Bridge raises $8 million USD to prepare for “Q-Day”
Series A funding will help U of T spinout scale its Q-Day-ready encryption method.