Meta spent 2026 trying to become an AI-native company, and its own internal numbers tell the story. Software changes up 220 percent year over year. Changes that actually reached users up 36 percent. Major technical and security incidents up 40 percent. Employee time spent cleaning them up, up as much as 70 percent. None of […]
Canada Is Finally Giving Trade Documents a Digital Original. Now It Has to Keep the Infrastructure Open.
Bill C-39 contains a proposed Enabling Digital Trade Act, and it does something a PDF never could: it creates a digital original that is unique, controllable and transferable. That matters because a negotiable bill of lading controls the cargo, and a file that copies perfectly can’t answer who holds that control. The Act also lets […]
Canada’s Airports May Be Worth $40 Billion. Here’s What Ottawa Is Really Selling.
Toronto Pearson, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary generated roughly $1.92 billion of EBITDA in 2025. Sydney Airport sold at about 24 times pre-pandemic EBITDA, Gatwick at roughly 20 times. Apply those multiples to Canada and you land somewhere between $28.8 billion and $42.2 billion of enterprise value, against about $11.8 billion of existing airport net debt. […]
Don’t Give Bell, Rogers and TELUS Another Publicly Funded Monopoly
Canada is proposing a sovereign broadband backbone, and the easiest way to build it is also the worst one: hand the money to Bell, Rogers and TELUS, who already hold roughly 90% of wireless revenue and subscribers. Australia, New Zealand and Singapore all solved this by separating the infrastructure from the services running on it. […]
Canada’s Patent Problem Is Not Just Invention. It Is Ownership.
Canada really does generate less than 1% of global patent activity: 24,184 applications in 2024 against roughly 3.7 million worldwide. But the count is the least interesting part. Canada’s share of international PCT filings has been cut roughly in half over twenty years, only 12.2% of applications at our own patent office come from Canadian […]
Apple Photos approach to building evidence of reality
Detecting AI-generated images is an arms race the detectors keep losing. Apple Reference Image takes the opposite approach: the iPhone’s camera sensor cryptographically signs what it captures, Private Cloud Compute carries that evidence through computational photography, and the finished JPEG arrives with a chain of custody back to physical hardware. It does this without embedding […]
Microsoft Doesn’t Want AI to Become Data
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct makes one claim that matters more than all the safety language around it: AI should remain a tool rather than becoming a new category of entity. Star Trek spent seven seasons asking what we owe a machine that starts to look like a person. Microsoft is arguing we […]
Claude, Spies and Weapons: Anthropic’s Latest AI Threat Report
Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report reads like a Tom Clancy plot, except the operations are real. Chinese defence researchers built electronic-warfare modules and modelled strikes on Taiwanese air defences, Iranian security agencies profiled dissidents and scouted U.S. naval targets, a handful of operators ran agent swarms against roughly 50 organizations, and seven Chinese AI labs […]
When the SaaS User Is an Agent, What Replaces the Seat?
The SaaS seat worked because headcount was a reasonable proxy for how much software a company used, and one more user cost the vendor almost nothing. AI agents break both halves of that. An agent might live for 30 seconds or run continuously, and every run costs the vendor real money in inference, retrieval and […]
Haliburton Atlas: Comparing Four Townships That Define Almost Nothing the Same Way
Haliburton County is deciding whether to keep five municipal governments or fewer, and every version of that argument is conducted in numbers that were never comparable to begin with. Haliburton Atlas puts 94 metrics on one footing across the four townships, records 81 more as not comparable and refuses to chart them, and defaults to […]
Toronto’s Traffic Agents Look Effective. So Why Is It So Hard to Prove?
Toronto now has more than 100 Traffic Agents, heading to 127 by early 2027, at an estimated $10.5 million a year. The City says they eliminate intersection blocking 96 per cent of the time and cut travel times by up to 33 per cent, but publishes no intersections, no measurement period, no sample size and […]
Your Community Slack Is Probably a Competitive Intelligence Channel
A vendor-run Community Slack feels private because you need an invite and Google can’t index it, but most of them are semi-public rooms that anyone can badge into through a link on the website. Inside sits exactly what a competitor wants: customer pain points, feature requests, what’s breaking, which products people are migrating from, and […]
Ontario Can Rip Out Toronto’s Bike Lanes. But Will It Actually Reduce Traffic?
The Court of Appeal for Ontario cleared the province to remove roughly 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University. That answers the legal question, not the traffic one. Toronto’s permanent counters record 5,579 cyclists on a summer day at the busiest Bloor location, against about 8,754 motor vehicles, so if even […]
AI Isn’t the Next 2008. But Its Financial System Is Starting to Rhyme.
Data-centre securitization has gone from $4 billion in 2020 to roughly $61 billion today, and on July 29 SEC staff agreed that qualifying versions aren’t legally asset-backed securities, which puts them outside the safeguards Congress wrote after 2008. This isn’t subprime. The tenants are among the richest companies ever created, the structures are simpler, and […]
Meta’s Superintelligence Pitch Sounds a Lot Like Its Metaverse Pitch
Zuckerberg’s 2026 superintelligence manifesto runs the same play as his 2021 metaverse letter: an inevitable future, enormous benefits, a warning about concentrated power, and a quiet case against regulating any of it too early. The metaverse version cost Reality Labs more than $80 billion and never hit the timeline it promised. The contradiction this time […]