This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

Does anyone know if Bluesky has a card validator for updating news story image previews? Noticing that old headlines are being pulled on articles, well after they've been changed.

Canada's AI minister will meet with OpenAI's CEO after the company admitted that in hindsight, it would have reported the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account to law enforcement. betakit.com/openai-says-...

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

🎂 Today, BetaKit turns 10 🎂 On February 26, 2016, BetaKit spun out on our own and officially became BetaKit Incorporated. That was the moment we became like so many of the companies we cover: a Canadian startup 🧵

Talking about the Fediverse often feels like it merits a "stop trying to make fetch happen" response. But at a recent conference in Montréal, advocates said figuring out how to build a decentralized web people will actually use is a must. betakit.com/can-canada-f... by @madisonmcla.bsky.social

Employee-owned companies are more economically productive AND pay staff more. Yet Canada is set to let the tax incentives for creating this type of business ownership expire at the end of this year. Why? betakit.com/business-lea... from @alexriehl.com

"There are asset managers working in droves to cultivate the image of private credit as an attractive product for retail investors. Then there is Blue Owl." Gotta love when an FT chart is showing such a mess that its labelled, simply, "skid marks" www.ft.com/content/4205...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Radio-Canada apologizes after it aired a photo circulated by anti-trans hate groups online, falsely claiming it was a photo of the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Damaging and irresponsible, and this apology raises more questions about journalistic process imho. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

Nestled between a flooring company and a children’s NERF gun arena in Edmonton is one of only six companies in the world building the tech to cool quantum computers to near zero temperatures. From @betakit.com's Alberta reporter Jesse Cole: betakit.com/inside-the-e...

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

And here's The Pleb acknowledging he posted photos all over the Internet accusing a completely random innocent person of being a school shooter:

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here: www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust betakit.com/canadas-new-...

"The grief can come visit, 'but don’t let the grief, like, unpack its bags and move in.'" Beautiful story. thelocal.to/cost-of-canc...

Ottawa used AI to analyze the submissions informing its AI strategy. We assigned human reporter Josh Scott to review all 348 pages and collect the highlights, instead. betakit.com/we-read-ever...

There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Honoured to be asked to speak alongside this accomplished group, and for a good cause: collecting professional clothing donations for women. If you're in Calgary, please attend: www.eventbrite.ca/e/women-lead...

"The government says that it used multiple AI tools to interpret the data ... However, the results appear as sweeping takeaways and do not cite any weighting of the data nor specific sources." from @alexriehl.com

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

if i win the lottery, there will be signs:

WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Should Canada ban kids from accessing social media? Here's a case for why that might let platforms off the hook:

I spoke with @betakit.com's @sarahcrgr.bsky.social about Canada’s proposed social media ban. The concerns are real, but blanket bans punish kids and let platforms off the hook. We should focus on digital literacy, age-appropriate design, and stronger parental controls: betakit.com/qa-why-canad...

"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Indipendent journalist Georgia Fort said. "It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."

The banned books include the graphic novel of 1984, if this all wasn't already too on the nose

"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too." www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this. “This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

Canada needs to double how quickly it builds homes ... but bringing those building processes into the 21st century is going to take more than just automation. From @jessicabarrett.bsky.social, author of the upcoming book No Place Like Home: betakit.com/canadas-hous...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

twilight zone

NEW: Last month, we released Rx Inspector, a groundbreaking tool that lets you find the factories where your generic drugs were manufactured. See the never-before-released data that ties everything together.

“The regime is terrified of one thing: Iranians being heard telling their own truth and having crimes documented” Following a repressive crackdown on protests, Iran is now building a system that grants web access only to security-vetted elites, while locking 90 million citizens inside an intranet

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social AHS shut down emergency departments for 11 Alberta hospitals last month One of these emergency departments had no in-person physicians for over 500 hours. albertaworker.ca/news/ahs-shu...

These brothers sold their artist-driven company to BIC, only to see it shut down and the team lose their jobs. Now, they're trying to buy it back. via @alexriehl.com betakit.com/years-after-...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

this is "my neighbour is still shovelling snow in shorts and sandals while drinking an ice cap" temperatures

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an ICE raid. Both were wrong. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Canadian social media management firm Hootsuite is providing monitoring tech to the US government's immigration enforcement agency. Via @betakit.com reporter Josh Scott and myself. betakit.com/hootsuite-dh...

BetaKit's new Prairies reporter Jesse Cole and managing editor @sarahcrgr.bsky.social were at Edmonton Unlimited last night to celebrate opening our new Prairies Bureau. We're touched at the warm welcome, Edmonton, and we can't wait to tell even more stories of #Prairies innovation. Stay tuned.

"There’s a lot of money being invested ... with an assumption of having a walled garden. Ultimately, I don’t think that’s worked in the interest of the consumer." Calgary fintech CEO @nicbeique.bsky.social on why he sees open finance as the future. betakit.com/helcim-takes...

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Bookmarking this and promising myself I'll read it later

Reading this after finishing making calls to lawyers, banks, doctors, and estate experts really makes this one hit on another level