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AI firms Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge
AI firms Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge
In a bid to more competitively tap into an estimated $1 trillion annual market for AI services, Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha are merging.
Bombardier signs contract with St. John's CoLab AI
Bombardier Inc. has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract to use artificial-intelligence software from CoLab AI Inc., one of Atlantic Canada’s fastest-growing startups, to help design and make new business jets. St. John’s-based CoLab sells a cloud-based platform for engineers.
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
This week BetaKit talked to StackAdapt's CEO Vitaly Percherskiy about its 13-year journey, including how the company avoided the pitfalls of its initial competitors to outlast and surpass them and StackAdapt’s early bet on AI.
Inside Sapper Labs, wiring Canada’s defence intelligence
A few months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an Ottawa-based defence-tech company was already tracking the Wagner Group, Russia’s shadowy mercenary army, according to Sapper Labs Group CEO Allen Dillon.
BDC’s new $500-million AI loan program for 1,000 SMEs
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has opened a new loan program to help 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt AI. The $500-million LIFT initiative (Lead with Innovation and Focus on Technology) connects SMEs with consultants.
Anthropic’s Mythos model accessed by unauthorized users
A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and confirmed by Bloomberg.
A&K Robotic financing to put self-driving pods in airports
Vancouver-based A&K Robotics, which builds self-driving “mobility pods” for airports, has secured $8 million in financing to assist in navigating airports, which can be a tough and stressful experience, especially for travellers with mobility limitations.
A robot is beating human pros at table tennis
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how artificial intelligence is making robots more agile.
One Tech Tip: Security guidelines for remote workers
For digital nomads, logging on to work from a cafe, co-working space, hotel lobby or airport lounge is a way of life. Remote working has been made possible by reliable high speed internet that was turbocharged by the pandemic.
We almost hired an AI candidate. Here’s what saved us
We thought we’d found our next hire. After two months and seven interviews, our team at CoHost had narrowed our search down to one candidate. He was sharp, personable, and technically impressive. We were days away from making an offer.
Meta to record employees’ keystrokes to train AI models
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from mouse movements and keystrokes of employees in its pursuit to build more capable AI.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, closing in on an AI ‘super app’
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model” yet. The algorithm comes with increased capabilities in a multitude of areas, another step toward an OpenAI “super app.”
Google launches AI-adoption fund for consultants
Alphabet’s Google Cloud is launching a US$750 million fund to help consulting firms, including McKinsey & Co., Accenture Plc and Deloitte, bring agentic artificial intelligence to their clients by giving early access to Gemini models to select firms.
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of its jobs
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence, the company disclosed in a memo sent to employees.
Altman vs Musk: The biggest feud in tech lands in court
The tensions between two billionaires are set to be on full display this coming week as Elon Musk’s case against Sam Altman's OpenAI, and backer Microsoft, heads to trial. If Musk prevails, it could trigger an overhaul of OpenAI.
China’s DeepSeek rolls out update of its AI model
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update, DeepSeek’s V4, on Friday as the AI rivalry between China and the U.S. heats up.
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