VP @SBS_Comms, ex-OMERS Venture, ex-Managing Editor at TechCrunch. Writer of @theangle, host of @originalcontentpodcast

Toronto, ON
New from me at @theangle: HumanX this year captured a theme that I'm seeing in my own experience of AI, and that I think reframes how we should be thinking about its impact on jobs and enterprise organization design:
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We are 100% in a race with China right now. We need to get to the Moon and secure the permanently shadowed craters that hold valuable Lunar ice, before they do. China is making a beeline there as we speak. No time to waste. LFG.
The second space race is real, and there are no footnotes in history.
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jev demo night at betaworks next week - let @kayacancode know if you want to demo 🪄 luma.com/xogxfokf cc @typesafeai
hosting the first ever jev by @typesafeai demo night in new york next week space is limited. looking for all types of demos. register: luma.com/xogxfokf want to demo: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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What would you like to see @Plaid build in the next year? Feedback welcome – new products, features, partnerships, improvements, etc!
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Ramp is finally live in the UK! Earlier this year, I wrote about wanting to make it easier to build a company in Europe. Very happy that more UK teams can now use what we've built. Our full-page apology is in the Financial Times. Sorry we're late 🇬🇧
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🇨🇦 We're BACK! 🇨🇦 May 31–June 4 - lock it in to your calendars! Five days for the people building, funding, and shaping what comes next in Canadian tech. Expect thoughtful programming, great events, and the conversations that turn into ideas, partnerships, hires, customers, and companies. More information to follow.
It’s official - Toronto Tech Week returns May 31-June 4, 2027. 🚀 Mark your calendars, and help us run it back for year three. More to come, and a ton up our sleeves for next year, so stay tuned!
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Some great ideas here from the cartel: - you need to give us employee-level access to your entire operation - if we don't think you're 'safe' enough, sorry we're shutting you down for 'safety' - China won't comply, but everyone else has to! or no chips! Brilliant stuff.
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
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I’m very excited to announce a new Astranis partner in the Middle East and a new satellite-- a dedicated MicroGEO for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Astranis has signed a contract with @stc, the largest telco in Saudi Arabia, for a satellite that will launch next year to provide mission critical networking and telecoms services. This is a great example of how Astranis is building out the infrastructure of high orbits, helping countries around the world build and deliver the essential services that they need. Importantly, what we do is something that would be impossible on a shared network or LEO constellation. GEO is the only orbit where you can park a satellite over one specific part of the world 24/7, which is why Astranis started there. Our MicroGEO satellites, built in America at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional large satellites, put dedicated satellite capacity within reach of any nation that wants it. Our customers control coverage, payload configuration, and the networking stack end to end. While data stays in country, private and secure. Saudi Arabia is making one of the world’s biggest investments in digital infrastructure, committing over $8 billion to future next-generation network build out, and now that backbone will extend 22,000 miles into space. It is an honor to build for stc group and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Expansion Era is underway.
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Appreciate the speedy shipping @Waymo !
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Hosting a dinner on using AI to automate work in the real world (not solving millennium math problems) tonight in SF. Have a few open slots due to some cancellations. Respond if you're building a company that tackles boring work with AI and want to join!
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So it begins
JUST IN: Scientists reveal they may have found the material needed to build a 66,000-mile “space elevator,” potentially allowing cargo & people to climb directly into space.
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We just increased the included usage of Grok models in Cursor! Demand has been increasing with the launch of Grok 4.6. We already doubled limits last month with more compute. And now we're raising limits again permanently. Enjoy!
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1/ AIDO Cell is a simulator for cell biology. You instantiate a virtual cell, perturb it, read out experimental measurements, branch it, and perturb it again. An example of how it works, and what it does and doesn't do -> 🧵
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The world has changed: choosing an AI model is now a full-time job. GPT-5.6 Luna, Sol, or Terra? Claude Opus 4.8 or Sonnet 5? Gemini 3.1 Pro, Kimi K3, or GLM 5.2? Medium, high, or xhigh reasoning? Best solve rate, lowest cost, or fastest response? And next week, the answer changes again. Ramp Router keeps track so you don't have to. The right model for each task is now two lines of code: router.com
Monitor and control your AI spend on every provider on router.com. Our early users save 40% on average. Every week, the price-intelligence-latency frontier shifts, and we expect this trend to continue. Tradeoffs between latency, reasoning, cost, service tier, open source and closed source models are shifting constantly. Router sends every request to the model that's actually best for the task and helps you control what tokens you buy. We benchmark it against real work: ~40% lower cost for the same outputs. Today we're opening it to everyone. Two lines of code or just change your base URL. No @tryramp account needed. Free through 2026, first $26 on us. Get an API key today at router.com
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The events dream team
Paradigm hosts a lot of events. Almost all are behind the scenes. We're hiring an events leader to help architect and execute the gatherings where technologists, researchers and builders shape what's being built on the frontier of technology. High taste. High agency. Ownership. Team player mentality. If that's you, DM me a few sentences capturing your approach to events and apply below. jobs.ashbyhq.com/Paradigm/0f…
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today is the day. everybody is invited to enjoy ojai @waymo
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This is a preview. The case studies in the technical report reproduce established biology. It shows multi-scale stateful simulation works. It is not a finished high-fidelity model of any one cell line. Expect even more capable versions through the rest of this year and into next.
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Today we're releasing a preview of AIDO Cell, a world model of the human cell. It simulates one cell across DNA, RNA, protein, through regulatory networks and whole-cell behavior. Not four models handing results to each other. One system.
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