Generative AI use in the workplace is growing unchecked, new Salesforce survey finds
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Generative AI use in the workplace is growing unchecked, new Salesforce survey finds

Only 13 percent of Canadian respondents said their workplace has clearly defined generative AI rules. A new report from Salesforce suggests that the increasing…

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Secoda closes $19-million CAD Series A to scale its data management AI copilot

As prompts supplant search, US investors Craft Ventures and Abstract Ventures back Secoda’s new AI-powered tools. Toronto-based Secoda has secured major funding to scale…

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How CIOs can prepare for the “tectonic change” of generative AI

Coveo CEO Louis Têtu travelled the world talking to CIOs about their AI concerns. Here’s what he learned. Nearly every company leader in the…

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Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows
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Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows

Toronto-based Cohere has also partnered with McKinsey. German software giant SAP has made strategic investments in Toronto-based OpenAI rival Cohere and a pair of…

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Shakudo closes $9.5-million CAD Series A to help companies adopt generative AI
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Shakudo closes $9.5-million CAD Series A to help companies adopt generative AI

GreatPoint-backed Shakudo is led by AI experts from Georgian, Borealis AI, and BMO. Toronto-based Shakudo has secured $9.5 million CAD ($7.2 million USD) in…

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What comes after the attention economy?

Kate Bush and Girl Talk point to new outcomes and priorities. “The industrial age had robber barons who owned the means of production; the…

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Stephen Marche on how generative AI will transform academia (and everything else)

Nobody is prepared. Technology produces wonderful new tools. But what is lost in their wake? It’s a question society is always facing – even…

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