Alex Riehl
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Setting the pace in data sovereignty and AI adoption (opens the original)
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In the last few years, data sovereignty has become a buzzword. But Indigenous nations have been at the forefront of the fight for sovereignty over stories, culture, traditions, and language, for far longer. That deep-rooted familiarity has helped put them at the forefront of adapting and adopting new tech in Canada. The news: BC-based Animikii recently inked a pilot partnership with Manitoba’s Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation to secure stewardship of data about the community’s history. The tech co
Should Carney compel pension funds to invest in Canada? | BetaKit (opens the original)
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Playing catch-up after a busy two weeks in Canadian tech, I find myself returning to commentary from Prime Minister Mark Carney made during the inaugural Canada Investment Summit. Answering a question on mechanisms to ensure Canadians maintain stakes in the investment projects on offer, Carney added that the feds didn’t—and shouldn’t—want to direct or compel Canadian pension funds to participate. “We want to create the conditions where those institutions … want to invest and compete with each ot
Your must-read Canada Investment Summit summary (opens the original)
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The Wednesday edition of The BetaKit Newsletter is designed to give you the important news everyone is talking about. This week, that news happens to be Canada. Beyond potential “associate membership” in the European Union (more on that below), Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit has captured the world’s attention. Here’s what you need to know. As major global investors descended on Toronto, they were pitched on 167 Canadian nation- and sovereignty-building projects, including
Canada needs growth-stage capital, too (opens the original)
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When should one look a gift billion in the mouth? Prime Minister Mark Carney has once again cajoled the international spotlight onto Canada, and the nation’s financial sector responded in kind, committing some $100 billion CAD in new capital before the Canada Investment Summit has even begun. The commitments are extensive enough that BetaKit has compiled a running tracker to keep tabs on them all. Despite the nation’s capital allocators finally getting the hint that building Canada might require
Are AI labs “gambling with our lives”? | BetaKit (opens the original)
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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. Beta
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