§ 00 — Front page
The News,
decoded.
§ 01 — This issue
Editor’s picksWhat Is Artificial General Intelligence?
And why everyone keeps arguing about it
The Quiet Crisis: Bias in AI Hiring Tools
AI hiring tools promise objectivity but often encode existing biases. Here's what you need to know about the state of algorithmic hiring.
Opinion: Stop Calling Everything "AI"
The term "AI" has been stretched so thin it's meaningless. Here's a plea for honest language in tech.
§ 02 — Latest dispatches
Everything the desk has cleared for publication.
- 01·BetaKit·2h agoTrevor Nichols
Calgary is now the fastest growing tech ecosystem in Canada
Global report shows city's tech sector growth dramatically outpaces Canadian average. The post Calgary is now the fastest growing tech ecosystem in Canada first appeared on BetaKit.
- 02·Latent Space·3h agoBrandon Anderson
🔬 The Self-Driving Lab — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
Radical AI's Joseph Krause on why the moat in materials is the lab, not the model
- 03·BetaKit·4h agoTrevor Nichols
Realize closes one of Canada’s largest impact funds at $227 million
Toronto firm raised $142 million from private LPs to complement Ottawa’s anchor commitment. The post Realize closes one of Canada’s largest impact funds at $227 million first appeared on BetaKit.
- 04·Simon Willison·4h ago
Quoting Charity Majors
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being…
- 05·Matt Wolfe (YouTube)·5h agoMatt Wolfe
PewDiePie Wants To Take Down The Big AI Companies
- 06·BetaKit·5h agoTrevor Nichols
NordSpace opens new rocket factory headquarters in Markham
The 60,000-square-foot facility will anchor the aerospace startup’s national footprint. The post NordSpace opens new rocket factory headquarters in Markham first appeared on BetaKit.
- 07·BetaKit·6h agoTrevor Nichols
Alberta Innovates invests $14 million to help commercialize local tech
Funding supports projects that will help Albertan startups scale toward commercialization. The post Alberta Innovates invests $14 million to help commercialize local tech first appeared on BetaKit.
- 08·BetaKit·7h agoTrevor Nichols
Autonomique says backflipping robots are not the point
Montréal- and Menlo Park-based startup deploying physical AI at Ontario F&P plant. The post Autonomique says backflipping robots are not the point first appeared on BetaKit.
- 09·BetaKit·9h agoTrevor Nichols
Michael Hyatt-backed BrokerPlus launches to disrupt “antiquated” mortgage industry
Surf co-founder and former Boardy colleague want to empower brokers with AI. The post Michael Hyatt-backed BrokerPlus launches to disrupt “antiquated” mortgage industry first appeared on BetaKit.
- 10·BetaKit·11h agoDouglas Soltys
Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI?
Co-founder Nick Frosst on sovereign AI, Star Trek, and why he doesn’t make a point of listening to Marc Andreessen. The post Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI? first appeared on BetaKit.
§ 04 — The dispatch
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