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Amid global uncertainty, the path forward is clear: Canada’s moment to build is now.
BetaKit Most Ambitious is back, telling stories of nearly 100 Canadian innovators strengthening our nation’s autonomy, security, and prosperity.
Read it now: bit.ly/4f0Wl2a
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In 2022, @Ubisoft announced an investment to grow its Winnipeg studio to 300 employees by 2030. Now it's the second of its Canadian studios to be closed this year. betakit.com/ubisoft-closes-w…
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Canada’s venture recovery in 2025 was real, but uneven. @Osler_Law’s Deal Points Report revealed a 22% spike in deal value, with seed and series A rounds representing 70% of all preferred share financing.
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.@Osler_Law's 2025 Deal Points Report shows AI representing over 50% of all transactional value.
Osler Partners Justin Young and Calvin Leung discuss this structural shift and how it’s impacted the Canadian ecosystem.
Read their full report here: osler.com/en/insights/report…
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At BetaKit #MostAmbitious: Town Hall, Kath Intson said Sentinel was once on the fast track to becoming an American company. But that was before Canada woke up.
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.@csa_asc has awarded $2.4 million to @MDA_space, Calian, and @KeplerComms, which are tasked with developing the ground systems that will control the country’s next generation of satellites.
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Court documents allege that chat logs show the young woman confided in ChatGPT about her suicidal thoughts and even discussed suicide methods, and that the chatbot continued to engage without flagging the behaviour. Nothing has been proven in court yet.
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ICYMI: Jim Balsillie gave a sobering talk at BetaKit #MostAmbitious: Town Hall. The @CADInnovators chair walked through all the ways the US has leveraged economic policy to Canadian disadvantage—and all the ways Canada allowed it to happen.
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Can saliva, hormones, and AI-generated reports offer something elite fighters will actually trust in the cage? Kintra thinks so, and its tech is helping @Aiemannzahabi train for his upcoming, high-profile cage match at the White House.
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.@ManevaAI’s founder went from welder to engineer to building AI vision software for factories. Now the company has fresh capital to scale.
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What happens when the best AI tools keep getting more expensive?
Some Canadian startups are already feeling the financial pinch, and are now taking a harder look at non-frontier and open-source models.
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More from @PrivacyPrivee's investigation into @elonmusk's @X and @xai.
The privacy commissioner said today that X is still violating Canada’s privacy laws—and his office doesn’t have the power to force it to comply.
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Russian officials reportedly threatened to publish Sentinel's address, potentially exposing the company to security risks. CEO Kath Intson said the company is taking the threats seriously, but that the agreement will proceed as planned.
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At this year’s @CanadianPrepaid Symposium, Mydoh CEO Angelique de Montbrun explains how parents can safely equip their children with financial technology tools to help them thrive in a digital future.
Learn more: mydoh.ca/
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Why is it so important for parents to introduce financial literacy to their children at a young age? Learn more here:
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Insights from the 2026 @CanadianPrepaid Symposium: Mydoh CEO Angelique de Montbrun explains why parents should begin introducing the concepts of financial literacy and money management to their children from a young age.
Learn more: mydoh.ca/
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.@PrivacyPrivee says @elonmusk's Grok was launched without proper safeguards or considerations of privacy harms.
In response, @X and xAI will issue quarterly reports and third-party audits to the OPC until the issue of sexualized deepfakes is resolved.
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One question still lingering around Bill C-34 is whether Ottawa can build a youth social media ban that is both enforceable and privacy-conscious. The government says yes. But not everyone is convinced.
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.@GetKoho says it is already at 2.5 million clients and around $250 million CAD in annual revenue. It's framing the banking licence as the “last big piece of the puzzle.”
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Canada can't stop talking about AI. BetaKit has everything you need to know: bit.ly/4vHrKM5
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.@GeneralFusion and @eavortech took the top 2 spots on @TIME's Top GreenTech Companies of 2026 list, while @Brookfield, Hydrostor, and @CarbonUpcycling made up the rest of the Canadian contingent.
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.@nestomortgages says it's trying to move beyond being a direct-to-consumer online mortgage lender to become a “mortgage ecosystem” builder that builds white-label tech for Canadian financial institutions.
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