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Vass Bednar
@VassB
Managing Director @CanShieldInst + co-author of The Big Fix. making sovereignty make sense.
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corporate maplewashing
Chipmaker Tenstorrent is seemingly pitching itself as a Canadian alternative to Nvidia, despite moving its headquarters to the U.S. three years ago.
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Oh, and Meta just added Muse to smartwatches.
Tech companies are rapidly stuffing AI into products and services whether consumers want it or not.
Google is the clearest example, but it is hardly alone.
The strategy is not about giving people more choice; it is about making AI unavoidable.
Users are being turned into test subjects for a technology they did not ask for and cannot easily escape.
That approach risks cluttering useful products with unwanted automation while hiding the costs, errors and biases of AI behind convenience.
The market is heading toward a future where opting out becomes the exception and resistance to AI feels impossible.
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“Canadian” company. It operates in Canada. They just aren’t the same thing in terms of economic value and spillovers.
Canadians are smart. We need to start disaggregating these allocations and not framing or dressing up foreign subsidiaries as if they are domestic firms.
Canadians are smart. We need to start disaggregating these allocations and not framing or dressing up foreign subsidiaries as if they are domestic firms.
Carney hands CRA building security contract to US company after Commissionaires, a non-profit association of Canadian vets, bids $80,000 more on the $12M contractView quoted post on X
Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing …
ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
“Canadian” company. It operates in Canada. They just aren’t the same thing in terms of economic value and spillovers.
Canadians are smart. We need to start disaggregating these allocations and not framing or dressing up foreign subsidiaries as if they are domestic firms.
Canadians are smart. We need to start disaggregating these allocations and not framing or dressing up foreign subsidiaries as if they are domestic firms.
Carney hands CRA building security contract to US company after Commissionaires, a non-profit association of Canadian vets, bids $80,000 more on the $12M contractView quoted post on X
Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing …
ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…