How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP For 24 years, Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has been working to help developers — and in the last few years, that’s meant building tools for AI. After a long stretch on GitHub Copilot, Silver is now a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within...

Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet In Brief Posted: 12:13 PM PST · February 17, 2026 Image Credits:Jemal Countess / Stringer / Getty Images Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for a new fund— the largest fund it has ever raised and nearly double the size of its last fund. Of this, $1 billion is dedicated to early-stage...

How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the missing ingredient for years has been finding enough smart people to continue the work. AI, they say, is becoming the force multiplier that lets...

Santa Carney delivered some tax gifts this year, but not enough to erase years of Liberal lumps of coalArticle contentCanada’s high personal tax rates stifle investment and act as a repellent to retaining and attracting talent. Eight of the 13 provinces and territories have personal tax rates that exceed 50 per cent at the highest rate, which has been a significant factor for many successful...

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months Image Credits:Amazon 10:27 AM PST · February 18, 2026 Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robotic initiatives are a success story. The ecommerce giant has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project just months after unveiling the...