Xi Jinping: Chinese leader makes rare reference to recent military purgeYvette TanandStephen McDonell,China correspondentGetty ImagesSince coming to power, President Xi has launched waves of anti-corruption drivesChinese President Xi Jinping has made a rare public reference to a recent crackdown which saw the country's top military general removed.General Zhang Youxia, who was widely seen as...

Keep winter spending surprises from leaving you out in the coldArticle contentInstead of absorbing travel into your monthly household budget, build it into your annual spending plan alongside RRSP and TFSA contributions. For instance, if you typically spend $12,000 on winter travel and recreation, acknowledge this when you outline your budget. Then once it is planned, you can look for ways to...

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Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators.  Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind, and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have...

Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop? Online creators and their business models were on our mind this week after mega-popular YouTuber MrBeast announced that his company is buying fintech startup Step, followed by Hollywood studios sending a flurry of cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance over the launch of its new video generation model Seedance 2.0. Those seemingly...