Episode Description: This week starts with casino Easter eggs and a prom-posal, because apparently Good Friday is full of surprises. Then Arielle and Karissa get into the actual news: a teenager built a working microplastic filter in her garage, Mexico’s monarch butterflies had their best winter in nearly a decade, and a $375 million jury…
Alistair Vigier is the CEO of the technology automation company Caseway. Earlier this week, Anthropic accidentally leaked the code behind its AI agent, Claude. It wasn’t a whistleblower, or a hack, but something far more ordinary: a routine software release that included a debugging file that should never have been public. Inside that file was…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After a severe wildfire, the first visible signs of life returning are often flowers or birds. What you cannot see is what arrives even earlier. Within weeks of a blaze, tiny fungal fruiting bodies push through scorched soil and release spores, briefly carpeting otherwise-bare ground in splashes of ocher,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most sleep advice is about duration or routine: go to bed at the same time, put the phone down, get eight hours. Much less attention goes to what your body is physically doing for those eight hours. Depending on how you sleep, your brain may be clearing waste products…
The Canadian tech sector’s next crop of initial public offering (IPO) candidates is much larger and more mature than its last. “Ideally, the right place for anyone wanting to build a long-term, enduring business is in the public markets.” Jack Newton,Clio Last year, 77 companies cracked The Globe and Mail’s second list of privately held…
Calgary-based cleantech startup Carbon Upcycling Technologies has struck a deal with San Francisco’s ATEL Ventures for up to $10 million USD in financing. This funding is secured by Carbon Upcycling’s assets. Under the agreement, ATEL will also receive the option to make a future investment in the company. Concrete is responsible for eight percent of…
Vancouver-based Aspect Biosystems has received significant federal support for a $280-million project to improve its 3D-printed human tissue treatment. “We are taking a major step toward building a generational company anchored in Canada and delivering life-changing therapies to patients around the world.” The company announced the project, supported by $79 million from the federal Strategic…
April Hicke is the founder and CEO of Toast, a tech recruitment platform dedicated to increasing gender diversity in the industry. Canada has positioned itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence. We have the talent, the research infrastructure, and the institutional ambition. What we don’t yet have is a plan to ensure that the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For Carole Greig, 70, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s almost three years ago, the prospect is personal. “How fantastic that we can be given some more independence, that we’re going to be able to cope on our own and not be a burden,” she said after testing the technology….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Easter is observed by roughly 2.4 billion Christians worldwide. That covers an enormous range of countries, climates, and histories. There is no single Easter, really. There’s the version you grew up with, and then there are all the others. Florence explodes a medieval cart on Easter Sunday Every Easter…
