Murad Hemmadi

I cover artificial intelligence and other deep technologies @globeandmail | muradhem.51 on Signal

[Murad Hemmadi @muradhem]

New from me: AI researchers in Edmonton are dreaming different dreams these days

DeepMind Alberta's closure in early 2023 was covered as a blow to the area's AI ambitions. Two years later its AI ecosystem is thriving, with startups, breakthroughs and more
https://t.co/fqOXi58NAu

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@CristinaCriddle Congratulations, so thoroughly earned!

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@anotherglassbox Both of these flavours are affronts to good taste and probably depressed the value of the deal

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New from me: AMD will pay US$2.9B for Taalas, the three-year-old Toronto chip startup. It’s a blockbuster takeover for a venture-backed private Canadian technology company, part of a rush of deal making in the hot AI inference hardware space.

https://t.co/ZTWX5T6fLv

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Toronto AI chatbot firm Ada to merge with U.S. company Dialpad in $600-million deal - scoop from the @globeandmail Story below https://t.co/VaLsH8f7RF

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@MikeIsaac And you’ve got to wait for the case you carefully selected to arrive, and a day when your jeans are worn in so they won’t scratch the phone screen or you’re not going to be putting your bag down on anything too hard that could scuff thr laptop…

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New from @Joe_Castaldo and me: Cohere has raised most of a $7B funding round, set to boost the AI firm's valuation to $35.7B. The Canadian federal government is putting in $1.6B for an equity stake. Other backers include $NVDA, $BCE, prior investors.

https://t.co/yyDdjQdbrh

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@terrynewman The PMO is not ATIPable.

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@_cweedbrook Thank you!

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New for me: I’ve joined @globeandmail, where I’m continuing to cover AI.

That means companies developing this economy-, and society-changing technology; funds financing it; the research advancing it; infrastructure built for it; and policy governments are developing for it.

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@PatrickBrethour Thank you!

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@sahir_yow Thank you!

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@RyanBMcKenna Thank you!

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@AndrewTumilty Thank you!

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@skanwar Thank you!

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@emilyhaws Thank you!

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@abundantintel I’m interested in what the technology is actually doing today, and what it will realistically do in the near future

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@massimo_berga Thank you!

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@AlexanderQuon Thank you!

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@GerritD Thank you!

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This also means I’ve left @the_logic, an outlet and team that in many ways made me, as both a beat reporter and a mostly-functioning adult. I’ll be a fan and a friend forever.

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Tips, documents, screenshots and other things that lead to scoops to <[email protected]> or the Signal in bio, please!