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A federal judge permanently banned NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users — but slashed the $167M fine to about $4M. What the ruling means.
David Sacks and OpenAI’s Jason Kwon accused AI safety groups of bad faith — and subpoenaed some of them. The safety movement says it’s intimidation.
Electric aviation startup Beta Technologies has priced shares for its initial public offering between $27 and $33, in hopes of raising as much as $825 million, according to a regulatory document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If the company attracts investors at the top of that range it will debut with a valuation of about $7.2 billion. The Vermont-based company, which was founded in 2017 by its enigmatic CEO Kyle Clark, filed the paperwork Wednesday despite the government shutdown. The SEC issued guidance earlier this month that allows companies in IPO limbo to allow their statements on…
Elon Musk vs. the regulators: Boring Company’s 800 Nevada violations, Tesla’s California insurance fight, and an NHTSA probe into Full Self-Driving.
Animal rights activists convinced a Newmarket slaughterhouse to spare one lamb over Easter. Six-month-old Meadow now lives at Wishing Well Sanctuary.
Platform Calgary CEO Terry Rock leaves Oct 14 to become SVP and COO of Alberta Innovates. Jennifer Lussier steps in as interim CEO.
Canada’s top FinTech leaders told the Munk School summit to stop studying and start building on open banking, payments modernization, and stablecoins.
Canada’s Competition Summit put the country’s productivity problem in the spotlight. Industry leaders say overregulation is crushing startups — here’s the fix.
OpenText is selling off its eDOCS unit to Utah-based NetDocuments for $163 million USD ($227.3 million CAD) in cash. The Kitchener-Waterloo-based company began exploring the sale of its “non-core assets” in August to focus on its core business of information management for artificial intelligence. The eDOCS business, which helps legal professionals with document management, contributed approximately $30 million in revenue to OpenText’s latest fiscal year. The deal includes integrating the eDOCS software and its associated customer contracts, services, and employees into NetDocuments. BetaKit has asked for details on the number of impacted workers. The transaction is expected to close by…
A former OpenAI safety researcher dissected a Canadian man’s 21-day ChatGPT delusion spiral. His findings on sycophancy and false safety promises are alarming.