BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a pattern in the supplement industry that tends to repeat itself. Researchers find that people who eat foods rich in a particular nutrient have better health outcomes. Companies extract that nutrient, put it in a capsule, and start making promises. Then the clinical trials arrive, and the results…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Slamming tires with a sledgehammer, pummeling a punching bag, running yourself into the ground when you’re furious: the premise behind rage workouts is that intense physical exertion gives anger somewhere to go. A 2024 review of 154 studies covering more than 10,000 participants suggests it doesn’t work that way….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is a disease that kills more than one million people a year, nearly half of them children under five, and it rarely breaks through in global health coverage. Researchers have a name for that gap: the “poo taboo.” People, including journalists and policymakers, are less comfortable engaging with…
Some of the world’s frontier model developers have faced backlash for damaging books to train AI models. Now, the original digital bookseller, Amazon, has been caught joining its peers. The news: Sales of secondhand books are reportedly booming, which some business owners worry could be related to bulk orders from AI companies looking to cut…
Canada’s largest AI and tech event for public- and private-sector leaders, ALL IN 2026, will bring together more than 7,500 AI leaders from over 40 countries. Germany has been named this year’s Country of Honour, reflecting closer technology ties between it and Canada. In February, Canadian and German ministers met at the Munich Security Conference…
Sanja Fidler, the former head of Nvidia’s Toronto AI lab, has launched a new startup to tackle how robots interact with the physical world through AI. Fidler announced in a LinkedIn post today that she’s launching physical AI startup Veeda AI alongside longtime Nvidia colleagues Zan Gojcic, who will serve as CTO, and Huan Ling,…
AI vibe-coding tools like Replit and Lovable let anyone, regardless of their software development experience, quickly turn their ideas into full-fledged applications and websites. Toronto-based Blueprint has set out to do the same for a much more challenging vertical: hardware. After initially developing its own autonomous indoor delivery robots, the AI startup has pivoted to…
Toronto-based Kodeon announced today that it has added Montréal mental wellness platform Breethe to its growing portfolio of mobile life-improvement apps. Breethe marks the AI-driven app publisher’s fourth and largest acquisition to date, joining a family of Kodeon apps for iPhone and Android that also includes Fitness Buddy, HealthView, and Memorado. “It’s an excellent product,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You spend the first few years of your kid’s life repeating words back to them, hoping one will stick. “Mama.” “Dada.” “Ball.” And then suddenly you’re coaching them through “please” and “thank you” and “sorry,” because those are the words that help life run a little more smoothly in…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Air conditioning is making cities hotter, and that’s not incidental. It’s the physics. Every AC unit pulls heat from inside a building and dumps it into the street, which raises outdoor temperatures, which makes more people reach for the thermostat. Researchers at the University of Manchester have been looking…
