Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAppetizers are served 🍤- The Investment Summit Gets Underway, Controlling AI
Episode 1076
The first day of Canada’s Investment Summit brought a wave of new commitments from banks, investors, and businesses, offering early signs that Ottawa…
2 weeks ago
Taking it slow 🐢- AI companies hit the pause button, Carney’s investment summit kicks off.
Episode 1075
AI’s biggest companies are pledging to slow the development of frontier models and open their systems to independent evaluators, an unprecedented att…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Order in the court 👩⚖️ - Canada’s courts want to stop throwing out cases, AI doomsday fears grow.
Episode 1074
Canada’s Supreme Court is weighing whether judges can use alternative remedies instead of throwing out criminal cases when trials take too long, a ch…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Alarm bells 🔔 - Ex-Anthropic employee gives grave AI warning, BMO comes for challenger banks.
Episode 1073
Anthropic researchers are warning that frontier AI systems could pose an existential threat within the next decade, as concerns grow that models are …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Keep your friends close 🇪🇺 - Canada and the EU deepen ties, Standardized test scores take an alarming dip.
Episode 1072
Canada and the European Union are reportedly preparing a far-reaching new partnership designed to bring them as close as legally possible without Can…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Choo choo 🛤️ - Via Rail is getting a makeover, Canada looks into Indian snack warehouse raids.
Episode 1071
Ottawa is spending $4.7 billion on 313 new Via Rail passenger cars, part of a major fleet overhaul aimed at improving reliability and comfort — thoug…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Trauma bond 📉 - Bond market troubles continue, Ontario fines SeatGeek under new ticket law.
Episode 1070
Global bond yields are surging as investors worry about inflation, government debt, and the war in Iran, raising questions about whether bonds can st…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Spineless 📚 - AI companies are destroying old books, Apple-OpenAI spat heats up.
Episode 1069
Canadian used booksellers are seeing suspicious bulk orders that may be tied to AI companies buying, scanning, and destroying old books for training …
3 weeks, 6 days ago
John Apple 🍏 - Apple’s new CEO takes the reins, Canada struggles to get its defence bank going.
Episode 1068
John Ternus is taking over as Apple CEO after Tim Cook’s 15-year run, inheriting pressure to restore the company’s reputation for breakthrough innova…
4 weeks ago
Unforced errors 🎾 - Tennis players want a bigger cut, rogue AI agents sound alarms.
Episode 1067
The U.S. Open is set to bring in as much as US$800 million, but tennis players receive less than 15% of tournament revenue — far below athletes in ma…
4 weeks, 1 day ago