word czar. two-guard. currently: @BetaKit previously: @MobileSyrup @BlackBerry and a bunch of dead sites you might remember fondly. "Wildly out of control."
Toronto, Canada
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Wild that Y2K went smoother than western Canada’s foray into permanent daylight saving time.
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.@GetKoho’s Daniel Eberhard (@DanEbs) on unicorns, leadership, and what not to build nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2lgkagkVr…
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It’s probably a really good time to get paranoid about your personal security, passwords, network security, opsec, etc
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Prime Minister @MarkJCarney said Canada is investing $1.6 billion in Toronto frontier AI developer @cohere as the "Canadian success story" targets a nearly $36 billion valuation in a new round of financing. betakit.com/canada-to-invest…
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You know what would have been smart to have done about 7 years ago? Launch open banking. Read only safe access to your bank accounts. Ok since that didn’t happen you know what we could do now? Launch open banking
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Industry minister @melaniejoly will release details today of the feds' $750-million #VC funding envelope and open applications for the Growth VCCI program.
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The next Mass Effect game won’t make it out of @bioware.
Development is stopping as the Edmonton studio shuts down. The closure is a stark ending for a company that helped turn Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Baldur’s Gate into global franchises.
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Montréal-based technology investor @inovia secures $200-million USD first close for sixth early-stage #VC fund. #CDNtech betakit.com/inovia-secures-2…
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Canadian-founded, US-based #AI chipmaker @tenstorrent secures $1.5 billion USD Series E at $6.2-billion valuation to challenge GPU dominance. #CDNtech betakit.com/tenstorrent-secu…
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US-based @AnthropicAI has been revealed as a long-term leaseholder for a large Nova Scotia data centre project—the #AI giant’s first data centre in Canada. #AtlCan betakit.com/anthropic-signs-…
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“The stock market is not even the stock market. The stock market is AI companies.”
@kylascan joins The BetaKit Podcast to discuss why #AI is viewed as the saviour of the US economy and the effect that's having on the public markets.
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Where quantum and #AI intersect (ALL IN 2026) nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qGoNYDrb…
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Ahem.
For those who may be unaware, Montreal is a cold *winter* city. Colder and snowier than Toronto.
And it now ranks 2nd among the world’s best cycling cities.
So don't even.
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.@GetKoho's @DanEbs has strong feelings on prediction markets. On The BetaKit Podcast, he called them techwashing for what is essentially gambling.
It's a principled stance from someone about to run a bank, and it’s not the only candid moment he offers
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Canada invented maybe the greatest investment account in the history of money, then named it after a piggy bank.
So now roughly $350 billion is sitting in TFSAs as cash. Doing nothing. Being slowly eaten by inflation.
A small, boring policy idea that could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars: change the name. Make it the Tax-Free Investment Account.
It might sound silly, but the name matters. Nearly half of Canadians with a TFSA (sorry, TFIA) keep their savings in it as cash. At Wealthsimple, it’s 6%. Over a few decades, that gap compounds into an enormous amount of money.
One word. Let’s change it, close that investment gap, and actually help Canadians build wealth.
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.@Mila_Quebec's Alex Shee shares how Canada can keep its #AI talent nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1wxWjlLNd…
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On The BetaKit Podcast, @tron joins @XanaduAI’s Nikki Bhatia, Nord Quantique’s Marc-Antoine Lemonde, @IonQ_Inc’s Lisa Lambert, and @CGI_Global's Chris Juryn at @allincanada for a fascinating discussion on where AI and quantum intersect, and diverge.
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Canada says it will finally launch its real-time payment rail this year. But sources say none of the Big Six banks are scheduled for Phase 1.
As @GetKoho's @DanEbs put it, a system that 95% of the country can’t access risks being “kind of performative.”
betakit.com/canadas-initial-…
