Weston family-backed firm plans to back 15 more startups.

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Ahead of Canada FinTech Forum 2026, Mastercard’s Balinder Ahluwalia on local builders shaping future commerce.

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Pitchbook of investable Canadian projects spans quantum, AI data centres, and carbon capture. 

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A new study shows pygmy raccoons in Mexico rummaging through bins for paper and other materials, crafting those scraps into balls to play with, and teaching her family members how to do the same.

Halifax startup developing AI-powered satellites that can process and analyze data in orbit. 

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The airport is testing facial verification at boarding as it prepares to handle 65 million passengers a year.

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Many people in a community located more than 200 kilometres north of Fort McMurray have long believed there are links between cancers in their region and the industrial developments upstream along the Athabasca River.

The project is part of the province’s Net Zero Action Plan aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

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The student-led conference features speakers from Inovia Capital, Citadel, and Garage Capital.

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There is a more than 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a researcher at Anthropic estimated in a post, hours after social media posts went viral from someone saying they had just quit Anthropic over concerns that AI companies are “gambling with our lives” in the AI development race.

Yet another AI researcher has issued a staggering warning: the cutthroat race to build ever-more-powerful AI systems could wipe out humanity. The news: Jacob Coxon announced on Tuesday that he resigned from his role as a researcher at Anthropic because the AI company and its top rival, OpenAI, are “gambling with our lives.” He claimed neither company is acting responsibly when developing AI models, and are instead racing to create self-improving AI systems that humans could lose control of.  BetaKit has reached out to Anthropic and OpenAI for comment on Coxon’s posts. From the source: “The people building AI...

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Canadian-founded go-to-market startup wants to become “the AI growth engine for every company.”

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Companies with hardware plays were Canadian tech’s only entrants, while prominent software companies fell off list.

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E-commerce giant brings the popular web development framework’s team in-house.

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Program will provide AI training resources to Canadians through the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.

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Canada’s biggest bank wants to help the country’s next tech champions scale.

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Fossil eggshells believed to be from some of the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived have been found in a surprisingly cool climate far from the equator. But those titanosaurs were too big to sit on their eggs. Microscopic evidence shows what they did instead to keep the eggs warm enough to hatch.

Montréal startup is betting on small language models and demand for data privacy.

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Cohere’s Joelle Pineau will give part-time help setting research agenda at Montréal-based company.

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VANCOUVER – The University of British Columbia has crossed a major commercialization milestone, officially launching its 302nd spin-off company following the addition of 15 new ventures in 2026. According to […]

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