The Toronto-based private career college, previously known as HackerYou, is no longer admitting new students into its web development bootcamp or continuing education programs due to a dramatic reduction in job placements, Heather Payne, the college’s founder, announced in a blog post. Juno will now focus on training people to become “solopreneurs” of microbusinesses. (The Logic)

Talking point: Juno’s decision comes as Canada’s tech sector has continued to see waves of layoffs, most recently with Ottawa-based Shopify cutting 20 per cent of its workforce in early May, its second major headcount reduction in less than a year. Juno’s decision also comes amid warnings that the kind of tech skills that are in demand may be changing, as companies look to adopt artificial intelligence in their practices. In a speech Monday, Jensen Huang, CEO of the world’s most valuable semiconductor company Nvidia, hailed a “new computing era,” and said that “everyone is a programmer” now that generative AI has dramatically lowered barriers to computer coding.