In what has become an annual tradition, The BetaKit Podcast has returned to stuff your holiday stocking with the biggest tech stories of 2025.
But I can’t do it alone. So my holiday wish has been granted, and I Amazon overnighted my brother in pod, Rob Kenedi, host of the Decelerator podcast!
“2025 is the year that we committed to the bit, and all pretences went away.”
We also went through our 2024 predictions of what 2025 would bring, and let’s just say (beyond one Hail Mary political guess) those are better left in the past. It seems as though much of the tectonic change we tracked last year continued in 2025, but not for the reasons we expected.
DOGE may have died as a government entity, but the movement lives on. The AI bubble is now acknowledged, but still won’t pop. Antitrust battles didn’t shake up big tech competition, but Google is resurgent, OpenAI is calling Code Reds, and Apple seems… very ripe to be disrupted.
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Note that much of this conversation is talking about tech from a Canadian perspective, but we still had time to talk Canadian tech. I get in one big story on the backend, but if you want a whole series dedicated to the biggest Canadian tech stories of 2025, might I suggest this special series lovingly crafted by the BetaKit newsroom?
So, what were the biggest tech stories of 2025? Let’s dig in.
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