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Angel Investors Ontario joining national group
Angel Investors Ontario joining national group
In order to address some investing gaps, an organization of angel investors is joining a similar national organization. The AIO will join the Canadian Startup Capital Association (CSCA) as a member, it announced in a press release.
Early-stage investment gap is a sovereignty issue: BDC
A new report from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) echoes what the Canadian startup ecosystem has been saying for years: Canada needs more venture capital investment if it wants to be both competitive and sovereign.
A map of Silicon Valley North tracing 30 years
A poster at Hub350 has not changed in almost two decades. It maps the family tree of Ottawa’s technology companies in hundreds of tiny boxes tracing the lineage of local firms back to Bell-Northern Research and the National Research Council.
Environment Canada radar changes spark concern
Environment Canada's decision to disband its radar research team and cease development of radar technology has some, including farmers and storm chasers, concerned about the accuracy of forecasting.
Even Google is navigating AI security in real time
Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles, speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies navigating the AI security moment we’re all living through.
You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “10 blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases.
EdTech startup selling software to university professors
Founded in 2019 by Top Hat founder Mohsen Shahini, education researcher Carine Marette, and tech executive Mark Deepwell, Kritik’s pitch to university educators is that building trust with students and allowing them to use AI is the best bet.
Spotify adds narrated magazine articles to audiobooks
Spotify is rolling out narrated articles from top publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety and Vanity Fair for its audiobook users. The Swedish streaming giant will offer more than 650 long-form English magazine articles to audiobook subscribers.
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise US$20M
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest Venture Fund as a lead in a startup fundraising round.
ClickUp’s mass layoff and the future of work
AI’s biggest champions have argued that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp, claims that this shift is imminent.
SoftBank shares get lift from OpenAI IPO hopes
SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a record high, spurred by hopes of big returns from the Japanese investor’s stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp., should the two go public.
The Pope says that AI should be disarmed
Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be “disarmed” to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should regulate a technology that is reshaping the world.
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