Waving the AI bubble red flags
"They're building AI that they're selling as so powerful that it is exceeding its limitations." We've talked a lot about AI on The BetaKit P...
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CanCon Podcast
The CanCon Podcast is weekly podcast covering both Canadian tech news and global tech news from a Canadian perspective.
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Answering your burning tech questions
"My god. Every time I ask you people for questions, I instantly regret it." What is Canada's most overrated tech company? How do we keep you...
Can Canada function without American tech?
"When we talk about sovereignty, we're talking about strategic capacity. Can you govern yourself with the tools that you have?" What would h...
What killed your startup? (LIVE from Startupfest 2026)
"There has never been a more exciting time to found and build a company in Canada." A *killler* lineup of Startupfest speakers joins for a l...
Cory Doctorow on using AI without letting AI use you
"I am Tron-pilled: I fight for the user. I want people to be in charge of their technology, not the other way around." Award-winning Canadia...
How Dominion Dynamics is building Canada's first line of Arctic defence
"The Arctic is the hardest operational environment on Earth for anybody. For any country." Dominion Dynamics CEO and BetaKit Most Ambitious...
Minister Evan Solomon on Canada's AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media
"Either we build the innovation here with our entrepreneurs, or we buy it from someone else. And either we make the rules here, or we follow...
Cohere's Nick Frosst on sovereign AI and Star Trek
"If your entire technology is coming from a single country, and that country decides that every now and again they're going to shut off acce...
Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"You guys have done what you've done with the wind in your face. Imagine if you had the wind at your back. Wow." Couldn't attend BetaKit Mos...
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"Everywhere I go, BetaKit is there. They grill me. Every time I say something, I say 'I wish I didn't say that' because BetaKit recorded it....
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada's largest grassroots tech event
"You could start your day paddleboarding on Lake Ontario, then you could go to a workout class, then you could go to a session on what VCs w...
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
"I know people with amazing ideas, but they don't have the right investment to take their idea to the prototype stage. At the prototype stag...
Evaluating Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy
"There's a lot in this document… Do we feel the urgency and the threats are covered here?" After months of waiting, the Defence Industrial S...
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
"With AI, it should bring down the barriers to how you quickly adopt new software without having to become masters of the software." When St...
How to fix Canadian VC
"We have a collective action problem. Somebody has to take the first step and say, 'Hey, we're going to deploy a lot of capital here in Cana...
How to fix Canada's Start-up Visa
"Speed is of the essence. This is a super dynamic marketplace. Canada is losing entrepreneurs, we're losing the next generation of founders,...
Is BDC too big to change?
"BDC is powerful in the sense that it can make or break a fund… And a lot of people are trying to close funds right now." In 2022, the feder...
An insider's take on Canada's AI task force report
"If we don't get our AI ducks in a row at some point and we miss that boat to shore up our industries right now, it's not really going to ma...
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
"It's important for the success of Y Combinator to see people investing at a very, very early stage. And if it means, to keep them happy so...
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can't clean up
"You have just seen control of one of the most popular social media platforms in one of the most influential countries in the world switch f...