🎂 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 🧵
How much transparency does the government owe us when it uses #AI to help create policy?
Jaxson Khan and @trondizzle.bsky.social sort through transparency, accountability, and answer whether the government should show us its prompts.
Their full chat is here: betakit.com/an-insiders-...
Literally the temperature I walked to the gym in with a Booster Juice on Monday.
Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
Grateful to see my 2026 tech predictions featured in @betakit.com! Even more rewarding: being included in such a strong slate of Canadian tech thinkers. 🇨🇦 👏
"Maybe we will see the robots that we want in our lives in 2026. But be prepared: they will definitely be controlled by people in India with Xbox controllers."
In a lighthearted BetaKit Podcast, @trondizzle.bsky.social and @sarahcrgr.bsky.social tackle tech's biggest questions for 2026.
So many tech platforms have decayed beyond usability. Can we reverse the process?
BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's @sarahcrgr.bsky.social on the year enshittification became undeniable: bit.ly/4pg0kJq
With billions set to flow into the country’s defence industry, Canadian tech is angling for a cut.
BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's Josh Scott on the year Canadian tech embraced defence.
bit.ly/4spMOWK
In 2025, Canada woke up to the possibility of buying and building Canadian. Real change depends on what happens next.
Here's @madisonmcla.bsky.social on the year Canada realized it needs sovereign tech: bit.ly/4920aiU
Experts are missing AI-hallucinated citations—including fake authors and fake journal entries—in their peer review of academic papers.
From @youcaughtscott.com for @betakit.com:
Tinker, tailor, soldier, trondizzle
it's legit!
On Sarah's first day, BetaKit surpassed our 2024 audience & readership totals. An auspicious start!
Her experience & skillset ensure that what was once our ceiling becomes our floor. As ME, Sarah will shape the growth of our newsroom & its #CDNtech coverage.
We’re just getting started. Let’s gooo.
This is a big win for #Cdntech and a bigger win for @betakit.com. Welcome aboard, Sarah!
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Ah yes, the Homer Principle
Also: maybe technology without constraints is *bad*?
On a recent podcast about BBM, The Verge's @reckless.bsky.social correctly summarized BlackBerry as a company built on navigating technical constraints.
For the newsletter, I wrote a few words about why Gen Z is looking for new constraints in their tech use. betakit.com/gen-z-wants-...
Hey look, it's me referenced by my friends at BetaKit.
Also what domain should I map it to?
Also what domain should I map it to?
I disagree but happy to have this convo. Right now my read is you saying the equivalent of ‘downloads solves the MAU problem’
But what if I also want @trondizzle.gandersocial.ca?
“It’s one thing to say ‘let’s do this in a sovereign way.’ It’s another to actually do it.”
^Ben spoke to @trondizzle.bsky.social from @betakit.com about being children of CanCon, giving people control of their feeds, and why sovereignty doesn’t mean isolation.
More👉 betakit.com/canada-gande...
Thanks so much for having me on this week's episode of the @betakit.com podcast 🇨🇦!
Working in #CDNmedia can be fun AND interesting AND important.
@betakit.com wants to tell every #CDNtech story across the country.
Come join us. ⤵️
tagging in @criseyde.bsky.social because she's always heading to Berlin and gets up to stuff.
Big @betakit.com scoop on changes at @omersventures.bsky.social.
One #CDNtech #VC just told me that the "pensions are all retreating back to Canada."
@madisonmcla.bsky.social has a first file with more coming from her and Josh Scott.
