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R|T: The Retail Times – SkipTheDishes gets a new CEO…again

Plus: Sobeys pays more than expected for cyber-breach. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the…

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A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI unveils GPT-4 as Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude

The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the globe. If you…

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Symend reduces team by 25 percent in restructuring, four months after $54 million round
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Symend reduces team by 25 percent in restructuring, four months after $54 million round

Latest cuts come after Symend laid off 13 percent of staff late last year. Calgary-based software startup Symend has restructured and reduced its staff…

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Dwindling tech deal volume remained a thorn in the Waterloo Region’s side in 2022

Venture funding in Waterloo Region dipped from 2021 peak, but still surpassed pre-bull market years. The Waterloo Region saw a continued decline in venture…

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AltaML, Waabi, TrojAI among Vector Institute’s 20 Canadian AI startups to watch for 2023

The list was narrowed down from 150 startups. AltaML, Waabi, and TrojAI are among the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) startups to watch over the…

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Waterloo Region venture deal volume continued to slump in Q3 2022

Early-stage deals were nowhere to be found. So what comes next? With only three deals closed, venture deal volume in the Waterloo Region reached…

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A|I: The AI Times – Gatik and Loblaw give Canadians driverless deliveries

Plus: US said to plan new limits on China’s AI and supercomputing firms. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI,…

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A|I: The AI Times – Darth Vader belongs to AI now

Plus: Google Ventures shelves its algorithm. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news…

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Avidbots closes $70 million USD Series C round to grow fleet of commercial cleaning robots
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Avidbots closes $70 million USD Series C round to grow fleet of commercial cleaning robots

Avidbots will also open a new, 70,00 square foot headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo. Kitchener-Waterloo startup Avidbots has secured $70 million USD in a Series C…

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