Mark Zuckerburg is ready to rumble… and no, we’re not talking about the cage flight that may or may not happen against Elon Musk. 

Driving the news: Meta is sticking it to Twitter by launching a challenger called Threads. Tomorrow, the internet will have yet another choice for text-based expression *sigh*. 

The biggest artificial intelligen…sorry, tech event in Canada has drawn to a close. 

Driving the news: The three-day Collision conference welcomed over 36,000 attendees to hear from technology leaders, including Google DeepMind’s Colin Murdoch, the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, and Cohere’s Aidan Gomez. 

Canada is learning (the hard way) that when tech giants make threats, you best believe ‘em.

What happened: Google announced it would stop showing Canadian news content in Canada when the Online News Act comes into effect later this year. That means no more Canadian news in the News tab and an end to publishing deals with over 150 outlets.  

A cyberattack on Suncor has left the company and its customers looking for answers.

Driving the news: The Canadian energy giant is still reeling from the effects of a cyberattack that hit the company last weekend. Payment systems are down at a number of Petro Canada stations nationwide, and the website and app have also been affected. 

Can you name anything scarier to Meta than the EU right now? We’ll wait. 

What happened: Meta is rolling out new features aimed at users aged 13-17 that will give their parents more supervision and warn them to cool it with all the dang scrolling. 

Canada’s marquee tech conference is descending on downtown Toronto this week.

Driving the news: Over 700 speakers and 40,000 attendees—from business leaders and investors to politicians and professional athletes—are flooding the Enercare Centre from around the world to share ideas, (hopefully) ink deals, and catch a Blue Jays game after.  

Most of us use AI chatbots for mundane, day-to-day tasks like drafting memos or meal planning. But in India, they’re giving the nation’s poorest populations a leg up. 

Driving the news: A new wave of AI chatbots in India can help citizens seek legal justice, advice, and career support. One developer found that some people had given up on getting aid or information due to language barriers and bribe demands from government officials. 

Standing in this corner, coming in at 6 foot 1, 200 pounds. The Pride of Pretoria. The Man With a Million Titles. Twitter owner Elooooooon Musk! 

And in this corner, coming in at 5 foot 6, 155 pounds. The Master of the Metaverse. The Harvard Haymaker. Meta CEO Maaaaark Zuckerberg!  

What happened: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to a cage fight. No, this isn’t a story from an abandoned April Fool’s edition, but somehow the actual reality we’re living in.

Big Tech is learning (the hard way) that the internet isn’t one big free for all. 

Driving the news: Several tech companies, including OpenAI and Google, want to gain access to content from the world’s biggest news outlets to help train the language models behind their popular chatbots, ChatGPT and Bard, per the Financial Times.  

Paris’ other headline-grabbing show—the Paris Air Show—begins this week. Only in this event, guests are leaving with 500 Airbus jets instead of Louis Vuitton’s summer collection.

Driving the news: After a four-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the world’s biggest air show is back, highlighting the industry’s latest planes, drones, helicopters and prototypes. Executives are expected to battle for billions worth of commercial and defence contracts.