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Canada’s AI champion Cohere is standing up the load-bearing walls of our economy

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By Darrell Etherington
| BetaKit Verified
The Toronto AI firm says that these days, the Canadian flag is a good brand. This article appears in the 2026 BetaKit Most Ambitious issue. Read more stories of the Canadian tech innovators strengthening our autonomy, security, and prosperity here. . . . Nick Frosst thinks there are only a handful of countries in the world at the frontier of the AI race. The United States. China. France, where Mistral holds the flag alone. And Canada, which has chosen Cohere as its global champion.
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The Great Reabsorption

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By Darrell Etherington
| The Angle (Newsletter)
At HumanX this past week, I watched eight different tech leaders – including the CEO of AWS, the co-founder of Cursor, and the head of Anthropic Labs – describe essentially the same phenomenon without any of them naming it. A Novo Nordisk scientist asks a Databricks agent about adverse effects in an obesity study and gets referenced, percentiled answers in minutes; work that previously required routing through a data team over months.
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A year is a lifetime: HumanX returns to a very different AI world

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By Darrell Etherington
| The Angle (Newsletter)
When HumanX debuted in Las Vegas last March, DeepSeek was a name that maybe a few hundred researchers would have recognised. Reasoning models were a novelty. Cursor had a devoted following but hadn’t yet become a verb among developers. And the idea that AI agents would be autonomously merging pull requests, managing corporate expenses, or finding and patching security flaws without a human in the loop would have sounded like a pitch deck fantasy – ambitious, sure, but comfortably distant.
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