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Cohere plans to acquire cyber startup Aisle and set up a new security division
The deal would add security tools for customers seeking more control over their AI systems and expand Cohere’s business in Europe -
Coinbase wants to put bots on the blockchain
Canada could be a leader in the growing market for AI agent-led crypto transactions, a Coinbase-backed lobby group argues in a new report -
Canadian entrepreneurs are chasing growth again, despite trade uncertainty
Businesses are expanding their customers, markets and suppliers while stepping up efforts to boost productivity, according to a new survey from BDC
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Business
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Norway’s Vianode eyes Canadian backers as it mulls a partnership or sale
The graphite company is looking for a strategic tie-up as it advances plans for a $3.2 billion Ontario plant -
Investors and CEOs are urging Ottawa to expand tax breaks for entrepreneurs
More than 100 business leaders are backing a pitch to the government that they say will help keep founders and capital in Canada -
TD cracks global top 10 for AI again as banks race for returns on investments
RBC remains the world’s third-ranked bank for AI maturity, as leading lenders accelerate deployment and keep recruiting AI talent -
Critical minerals face a funding ‘valley of death.’ Miners hope tax breaks will change that
About one in a thousand exploration projects becomes a mine, and Canada needs to lure new investors to fix that, miners say -
The Maple 8’s Canadian pledges may do little for startups and scaleups
Canada’s major pension funds will invest billions of extra dollars in domestic assets. Some worry the country’s innovation economy could miss out.
National
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A tech firm born from post-Brexit trade chaos sets its sights on Canada
As trade links grow between Canada and the U.K., Northern Ireland is pitching itself as a gateway to both British and European markets -
India wants to buy less Canadian uranium. Canada’s nuclear lab is helping
The American consortium that runs Canada’s national nuclear lab is helping develop a fuel that could cut into the market for Canadian uranium -
Canadian colleges would train workers in India under new bilateral talent strategy
Two years after Canada’s reckoning over student visas, colleges are working on a plan to provide training and expertise to India for high-demand sectors like AI and nuclear energy -
Emera sets sights on Canada’s giant power projects after $35B merger with Canadian Utilities
Surprise merger would create an energy behemoth capable of pursuing megaprojects envisioned by Prime Minister Mark Carney -
Cenovus announces $5.7B takeover of Athabasca, with a nod to Carney’s Mega Deduction
CEO says Ottawa’s new tax incentive factored into the latest deal in the oilsands, where industry consolidation marches on
Tech
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Tech firms want AI models to create better versions of themselves
AI developers are working toward recursive self-improvement, where models will be able to create better versions of themselves with little or no human intervention -
EDC wants to help sell the full stack of Canadian technology abroad
The federal agency is exploring how it can put together and finance packages of domestic products and services in sectors like AI compute and critical minerals -
Canada’s banking regulator weighs new rules for AI risks
OSFI is mulling new minimum standards for banks as frontier models and autonomous AI agents create fresh risks -
AI could help invent new materials. First, firms must figure out how to make them
Startups like Periodic Labs, Meissner and FL01 combine AI models for physics and chemistry with increasingly automated labs to come up with new substances -
ApplyBoard was the worst-performing Canadian startup in Fidelity’s portfolio in 2026
The asset management giant values its stake in the Waterloo-region edtech at $5.4 million, down from $113 million in its pandemic heyday
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The professor trying to make Canada a supercomputer superpower
Ryan Grant spent more than a decade in the U.S. working on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now the Ontario native is back in Canada with an audacious plan.
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Cameco’s high-stakes bid to be Canada’s next nuclear champion
Through the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of power-hungry AI, Saskatoon-based Cameco has served the nuclear power needs of both Canada and the United States. That’s about to get tricky. -
The $20B risk at the heart of Carney and Smith’s grand pipeline bargain
The oilpatch once called Ottawa’s pipeline-for-Pathways bargain “unfinanceable.” Now the industry seems to be changing its mind. -
Meet Canada’s leading innovators from the Class of 2026
From AI and space exploration to sustainable mining and accessible technology, this year’s Top Prospects are building the ideas and innovations that could shape Canada’s future
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