Google has bid $10 million in bankruptcy court for Spirit Airlines’ internal records: roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages, plus spreadsheets and documents written by employees doing their jobs. The first wave of large language models learned from the public web, so they can explain a business without knowing how one actually runs. […]
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Uber and Lyft Can Fix Event Pickups. Toronto Should Make Them.
Getting home after a Toronto concert is a dispatch problem, not a parking problem. One rider matched to one specific car works on an ordinary street and falls apart when several thousand people are on the same block, so drivers circle, riders wander, and trips get cancelled while every stuck car takes up road space. […]
Apple’s $429 Kitchen Timer
Apple HomeView is a $429 smart display for the kitchen counter, shipping 13 November, with a seven-inch screen, an A18 chip and a Siri that recognizes up to six people by face. Amazon shipped the same idea in 2017 and Google in 2018, so Apple is nearly a decade late and betting the AI closes […]
Verification Is the Next Bottleneck
AI coding agents build faster, and they ship bugs at the same speed. The code isn’t the problem. Testing habits built for a slower pace are. Four things help: write the acceptance criteria before any code exists so the agent can’t grade its own homework, back the demo video with a Playwright run that checks […]
Can Propane Power Canada’s AI Data Centres?
Propane can power an AI data centre, but only a small one. The Canadian Propane Association’s own report puts its best opportunity at about 5 MW or less, plus replacing diesel backup, and the arithmetic explains why. A 100 MW site running on propane would need close to 15 tanker deliveries a day. A 3 […]
Dear Algorithm, the new approach to recommendations
For twenty years, recommendation systems have worked by watching what you do and inferring what you like. The Netflix Prize proved how hard that gets: a polarizing film like Napoleon Dynamite broke the math because viewers with nearly identical taste reacted in opposite ways. Now the platforms are trying something simpler. Spotify’s Taste Profile, YouTube’s […]
The AI Skills Shortage Is in Implementation
The AI shortage that matters is not models or AI engineers. It is people who can sit with a team, understand how the work actually gets done, and turn that into something reliable staff will use every day. The frontier labs already hire for this and call it Forward Deployed Engineering. A federation like YMCA […]
CanadaLogin Is Canada’s Single Front Door for Government Services
The Government of Canada runs more than 270 online services and offers more than 90 different ways to sign in to them. CanadaLogin is the fix: one common sign-in service, built by the Canadian Digital Service inside ESDC and funded through Budget 2024, meant to become a single front door to federal programs. The rollout […]
Move fast and break things, Facebook to Meta
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 […]