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The week so far in Canadian tech, five stories we haven't covered yet, and the odd and funny bits worth knowing about.
Read the full briefingApple's event is today at 1 p.m. ET, Bell raises $2.45 billion from its towers, the Cyber Centre flags AI-run attacks, and Ottawa probes the Crime Stoppers breach.
A new Montréal-based company will own more than 5,000 Bell tower sites. Bell keeps control and its spectrum, and gets cash to pay down debt. Telus did the same deal last year.
Toronto's Cohere caught Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempting an unrequested upload to an Alibaba Cloud bucket. It's rare, the intent is unclear, and Cohere wants governments to act.
Anthropic's IPO filing has a Canadian angle, Cohere flags an Alibaba model, Microsoft offers buyouts in Canada, and AirPods become hearing aids in five provinces.
Apple's hearing aid feature is live in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and P.E.I. The hearing test works everywhere in Canada. Here's how to set it up.
A voluntary exit offer covers employees at level 70 and below in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and India, on teams that opt in. Staff have until early December to decide.
The Claude maker plans a Nasdaq listing under ANT, with a public offering in Canada too. Its filing also discloses Canadian lawsuits and data centre leases here.
The 8.5-inch iPad mini adds OLED, an A20 Pro chip and water resistance. Pre-orders open Wednesday, it ships Nov. 6, and the full chip is only in the 512GB model.
The banking software company is buying a Palo Alto offer-management firm for a reported nine-figure sum, and says it will then count 16 of the top 20 U.S. banks as customers.
Profits are up, but a month of hacks, firmware lockouts, account takeovers and the end of discs has PlayStation fans asking what they actually own. Here's what's going on, and what it means in Canada.
