Cohere announces $270 million Series C from Inovia, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce
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A|I: The AI Times – Google launches its hopeful GPT-4 killer

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PASQAL, Investissement Québec launch $90-million Quantum Computing initiative
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A|I: The AI Times – Sam Altman is back, Microsoft grabs a board seat, OpenAI plans governance changes

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A|I: The AI Times – As Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Cohere CEO slams the “self righteousness” of effective altruism
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A|I: The AI Times – As Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Cohere CEO slams the “self righteousness” of effective altruism

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A|I: The AI Times – Everything you need to know about the sudden firing of Sam Altman
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A|I: The AI Times – Everything you need to know about the sudden firing of Sam Altman

Plus: TechBrew becomes 4AG with $17.5M Series A. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and…

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A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI passes $1.3B annualized revenue while Big Tech struggles to turn AI hype into profits

Plus: Canadian quantum group appoints its first CEO. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and…

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F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech platforms are leaning more on buy now, pay later
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F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech platforms are leaning more on buy now, pay later

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F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe to power Shopify’s new business credit card

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A|I: The AI Times – Public letter escalation: Bengio & Hinton sign another warning

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CleanBC Industry Fund opens applications for round three of funding
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Inside Canada’s new early-stage VC firm

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Yoshua Bengio
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Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio warn “risk of extinction from AI” in public letter

Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio warn of “risk of extinction” from AI as more industry leaders ring the alarm to regulate the technology. Canadian…

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