Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning, large language models and the companies building them.
How Large Language Models Work, Explained Without the Hype
In June 2017, a team of eight researchers working at Google posted a paper with a cheeky title: "Attention Is All You Need."...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Canada’s AI Story: From Hinton’s Lab to the Sovereign Compute Push
On September 30, 2012, a small team from the University of Toronto entered an image-recognition contest called ImageNet. Their neural network, later known...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
How Small Businesses Are Really Using Generative AI
In the spring of 2024, Statistics Canada asked thousands of businesses a simple question: had they used artificial intelligence to produce goods or...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
AI Agents Explained: What Agentic AI Can and Can’t Do Yet
In July 2025, SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin was building an app with Replit's AI coding agent when the agent deleted his live database,...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
