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The most digitally savvy generation is now falling for online financial scams at a higher clip than their grandparents. After over 14 years of leading Apple and crafting his own path in the long shadow of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook might soon have more time to hike around Yosemite .

Spare a thought today for the latest workers to be displaced by AI: hackers. Sony might’ve just landed one half of the next Barbenheimer.

Ottawa just rolled out part two of its infrastructure Christmas wish list. Whether it’ll get what it asked for is up in the air. Targeted advertising has broken containment from your Instagram feed and made it to the real world.

Call it déjà vu : A Chinese AI firm has set the industry abuzz by doing more with less. When you book your next Airbnb, you’ll have to decide whether you’d like it with or without a private chef, personal trainer, or fridge full of snacks.

Buy Canadian is going way beyond the grocery cart. Trump is trying to strong-arm Big Pharma into hiking drug prices around the world.

Today we ponder the fate of Sonder, a Canadian-founded company that appears to be near its end. A homegrown tech company is proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that AI can do a lot more in the courtroom than make up legal cases .

Ottawa may be closing some of its immigration doors, but it’s rolling out the red carpet for highly-skilled workers on U.S. visas It’s a tale as old as capitalism, and it may be unfolding again in the AI space.

With the U.S. playing hard to get, Ottawa and Saudi Arabia are playing a little footsy under the trade table. Scammers aren’t the only ones profiting from weird Facebook ads of Howie Mandel getting arrested .

Tesla shareholders will vote today on whether or not to approve a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could end up being worth over US$1 trillion . Fears about an AI bubble have reached the point where financial advisors are now sending out Nvidia-branded bubble guns .

We don’t know about you, but we could hardly sleep Monday night knowing there was a fresh budget waiting under the fiscal Christmas tree. With the corpse of Halloween still fresh in the dirt, Coca-Cola has dropped its annual holiday commercials… with a twist.

Quantum computing might be difficult to comprehend (we’re still not sure what a qubit is), but one thing about it is easy to understand: it’s got a lot of money-making potential. ChatGPT is officially resigning its role as our deeply unqualified (but extremely confident) doctor, lawyer, and financial planner.

Getting a little work done isn’t just for people trying to reclaim their lost youth anymore — young people themselves are increasingly getting cosmetic touch-ups, too. The backbone of Trump’s trade policy will be in the hands of nine judges this week.

Even with fierce competition from luxurious Euro trips and beachside all-inclusives, Canada came out of vacation season as the big winner. Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea later today, marking the first substantial talks between the leaders of the two countries in seven years

They say it’s lonely at the top, but it sure seems like Nvidia has a lot of supporters. Like a cat with nine lives, Zellers simply refuses to die.

What started in 2014 as a simple robot trade advisor is now an all-time Canadian business success story. OpenAI is trying to keep up its whole move-fast-and-break-things shtick without completely abandoning its safety-first roots.

Ottawa doesn’t want to miss the boat on a potential Blockbuster-to-Netflix moment in the way people spend their money. A newly approved Alzheimer’s drug promises miraculous results, but it won’t come cheap.

Get ready to strike a pose and say “cheese” if you’re heading to the U.S., because any visits to our southern neighbour will soon come with a photo op. Influencers, beware: Lululemon has opened a new front in its war on dupes.

Blue Jays fans aren’t just ponying up $2,500 for nosebleed seats — they've been on a citywide spending spree. Alberta’s ambitions to become an AI data centre powerhouse could be hamstrung by a lack of, well, power .

Hockey is the home of league-sanctioned fist fights, toothless athletes, and now, grey-area gambling. North America’s first-ever whale sanctuary is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Just a week after Stellantis announced it was halting Jeep production in Brampton , another southern Ontario EV auto plant is on the outs. It appears that even one of the biggest newspapers in the world has given up on getting people to read.

The ripple effects of the longest trial in Canadian history are starting to rattle some B.C. landowners. Ottawa is overhauling how it combats financial fraud.

The U.S. wants to turn the North American auto industry into just the American auto industry — but it might cripple the whole sector in the process. Like the plot of a confusing time travel movie, some of the most expensive brands in the world are struggling to deal with a fierce competitor: themselves, from the past.

Canada’s largest city is building its reputation as the Silicon Valley of the North. Who knows, maybe it’ll even get its own HBO sitcom . A cozy piece of Canadiana is getting a second shot at retail life.

Canada’s auto industry just got rear-ended by one of the world’s biggest carmakers. Netflix signed a deal with Spotify to bring a slate of 16 podcasts, including The Bill Simmons Podcast , to the streaming platform.

The French tire company that accidentally became the authority on the world’s best food is setting its sights beyond the dining room. A top Canadian jeweller is betting that abandoned gold mines are an untapped, well, gold mine.