AI Business Weekly — July 22, 2026: Bessent Threatens China Sanctions as Microsoft Bets Billions on European AI
Five stories on AI's geopolitical and economic pressure points, from sanctions threats and a multibillion-dollar European infrastructure bet to Google's pricing strategy, a volatile market, and YouTube's crackdown on AI slop
AI Business Weekly — July 21, 2026: AMD Just Landed Microsoft as Nvidia's First Real Challenge in Years
Five stories on AI's shifting balance of power, from a Chinese model too popular for its own infrastructure to AMD's Microsoft win, a Bellevue expansion, an agent security bet, and Ollama's explosive growth
AI Business Weekly — July 20, 2026: Databricks Hits $188 Billion as Canada Doubles Down on Sovereign AI
Five stories on AI's expanding reach, from U of T's sovereign AI partnership and Databricks' record valuation to Netflix's Hollywood AI bet and the obscure companies building America's data centers.
AI Business Weekly — July 17, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Pro Finally Ships as Visa Bets Big on AI-Powered Micropayments
Four stories on AI's expanding infrastructure, from Google's costly model delay and Canada's academic integrity reckoning to Visa's stablecoin bet and a customer service unicorn in the making
AI Business Weekly — July 16, 2026: Meta Faces AI Discrimination Lawsuit as Deepfake Scams Keep Draining Canadian Savings
Five stories on AI's growing accountability reckoning, from a workplace discrimination lawsuit and data centre backlash to a fast-rising coding unicorn and Anthropic's bet on Canadian research
AI Business Weekly — July 15, 2026: IBM's Historic Stock Crash Exposes the Real Cost of the AI Infrastructure Race
Four stories on AI's mounting tensions, from a Turing Award winner betting against the scaling race to IBM's worst trading day ever and 200 economists demanding governments act now
AI Business Weekly — July 14, 2026: Apple's AI Skepticism Pays Off as Meta Doubles Down in Louisiana
Four stories on AI's diverging fortunes, from a $600 billion rally built on caution and a $50 billion infrastructure bet to a 12-year-old founder and growing public demand for a share of AI's wealth
AI Business Weekly — July 13, 2026: Meta's AI Missteps Pile Up as Nokia Rides the Infrastructure Wave
Five stories on AI's expanding footprint, from telecom's AI pivot and a $60 million bet on personalized entertainment to Meta's privacy stumble and Alberta's public reckoning with its own AI ambitions
AI Business Weekly — July 10, 2026: Meta's Coding Push, a $1.2 Billion AI Bet, and the Rise of AI-Generated Misinformation
Four stories on where AI competition, capital, and consequences are colliding, from developer tools and venture capital to courtroom wins and a new kind of misinformation problem
AI Business Weekly — July 9, 2026: Meta Bets $13 Billion on Alberta as AI's Trust Problem Shows Up in the Classroom
Four stories on where AI investment is landing, from Canadian data centres and federal funding to a legal-agent-topping model launch and a stark warning from higher education
AI Business Weekly — July 8, 2026: Meta Enters the Image Generation Race as Canadian Banks Pool AI Resources
Four stories on how established institutions and well-funded startups are racing to own critical pieces of the AI stack, from image generation to legal services to 3D content
AI Business Weekly — July 7, 2026: Big Tech Cuts Jobs, Nvidia Hits a Wall, and Hollywood's AI Actor Problem Won't Go Away
Four stories on the widening gap between AI's promise and its friction points, from layoffs and hardware delays to synthetic actors and the new business of testing AI agents before they fail
AI Business Weekly — July 6, 2026: Sovereign Wealth Bets Big on AI Infrastructure as Toronto Data Centre Backlash Grows
Four stories on how state-backed capital, hardware suppliers, and Canadian cities are racing to define who builds, owns, and hosts the infrastructure powering AI
AI Business Weekly - July 3, 2026: OpenAI Offers America a Piece of Itself
Four stories on how AI's biggest players are racing to prove they can be trusted, useful, and actually deployed, from a government equity offer to a $2.5 billion implementation bet
AI Business Weekly - June 30, 2026: AI Found the Bug. Then Apple Had to Fix It.
Four stories revealing how Anthropic's AI exposed an Apple exploit, why Ford had to rehire the humans it replaced, how Canadian startups are building the data layer for robots, and how a viral hardware moment turned into $27M in revenue
AI Business Weekly - June 29, 2026: The Week the AI Infrastructure War Came Home
Four stories revealing Vancouver's protest against sovereign AI data centres, Google rationing compute to Meta, Anthropic's partial reinstatement, and Amazon's $48B India bet
AI Business Weekly - June 26, 2026: The ROI Reckoning
Four stories revealing why 95% of companies aren't getting AI returns, how Alibaba extracted 28.8 million Claude conversations, what Samsara is doing for truck drivers, and why a Toronto fintech just raised $85M
AI Business Weekly - June 24, 2026: A Market on Edge, a Drive-Thru Revolution, and $50 Billion From Abu Dhabi
Four stories revealing South Korea's market crash, AI chatbots arriving at Canadian drive-thrus, how Cisco used AI to create 153,000 jobs, and the world's largest AI fund closing
AI Business Weekly - June 23, 2026: The Market Sent a Message Today. Here's What It Said.
Four stories revealing a $500B market selloff on AI spending doubts, Google's bet on A24, Nvidia's robot safety system, and the startup racing to be the Cisco of AI networking
AI Business Weekly - June 22, 2026: What AI Actually Delivers (And What It Doesn't)
Four stories revealing the truth about AI's moment of reckoning - fake influencers, real job fears, honest productivity data, and the $65M bet on AI as the glue between your tools
AI Business Weekly - June 18, 2026: World Leaders and AI CEOs Sat Down Together. Here's What Happened.
Four stories revealing the G7 AI coalition proposal, Edmonton's AI exploitation crisis, 1Password's agent security bet, and DeepSeek's $7.4 billion first raise
AI Business Weekly - June 17, 2026: Criminal Threats, $60 Billion Deals, and the Week AI Policy Got Real
Four stories revealing how Lutnick threatened Anthropic with criminal penalties, SpaceX used its IPO to buy Cursor for $60B, enterprise AI compute hits new milestones, and Canadian researchers made moderation 9x faster
AI Business Weekly - June 16, 2026: The Week AI Became Infrastructure
Five stories revealing why Anthropic's Mythos was too dangerous to release, how Nvidia raised $25B in hours, why Saskatoon wants in on the data centre race, what Canada's privacy bill means for business, and why Shopify is fighting its own shareholders over AI governance