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CanadianAI: Canada wants in on Europe’s AI contracts, and Carney picks his AI advisers
And more on Cohere opening up to rival models, Clio buying an AI company for judges, and deepfake detectors that miss half the fakes.
Oct 6
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Raif Barbaros
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Introducing the Canadian AI Index
570 companies, 734 founders and 698 investors, starting with what Q3 shows
Oct 1
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Raif Barbaros
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September 2026
CanadianAI: OpenAI backs Biossil at US$1B, and B.C. sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge
And more on TD and Bell Cyber’s new Cohere deals, Shopify becoming the checkout for Meta’s AI agent, and AI shopping agents that fall for $4.99.
Sep 29
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: $300M for Bengio’s LawZero and Canada’s largest venture fund ever
And more on Cohere signing with Aleph Alpha, Altis Labs’ US$25M Series A, and a Mila-Mozilla open-source AI stack.
Sep 22
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: $50B AI data centre in Saskatchewan and five AI startups raise
And more on Ultimarii's Series A, a US$525M Canadian AI growth fund, the National AI Literacy Initiative, and a Mila benchmark that demonstrates…
Sep 15
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Raif Barbaros
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Code Is a Liability
Tech debt in the AI age
Sep 11
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: Six AI startups got funded this week, and Ottawa's data centre principles
And more on OpenAI's second wave of Tumbler Ridge lawsuits, Patrick Pichette's new federal agency, and SOCAN suing Suno.
Sep 8
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Raif Barbaros
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Confident Mediocrity
Why AI can be brilliant at math and still lose your fantasy league, and what that tells us about AI moats
Sep 3
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: The Big Six show their AI math, and Ottawa poaches 48 researchers from US schools
And more on Kepler’s compute in orbit, Alberta’s moratorium fight, and Cohere’s new Parse model.
Sep 1
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Raif Barbaros
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August 2026
CanadianAI: One of Canada's largest-ever seed rounds, and Anthropic wants gigawatts in Canada
And more on Quebec's AI election code, Alberta's angry town halls, and two East Coast rounds we missed.
Aug 25
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Raif Barbaros
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From our quarterly LP report
Inside our quarterly report to LPs: open weights, good-enough models, and the end of tokenmaxxing
Aug 20
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CanadianAI: Ontario charges data centres full freight, and Convictional gives the money back
And four new funding rounds including Peripheral’s US$8.7M raise, the CCI report on early exits, and Canadians souring on data-centre incentives.
Aug 18
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Raif Barbaros
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