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. 

Just six months after Toyota’s CEO expressed he was, let’s say, less gung-ho for electric vehicles than other carmakers, the company has entered the scene in a big way. 

Right now, AI research and development is kind of like the Wild West, but a hotshot sheriff named the EU just rode into town to lay down the law.

Everyone and their mother has an AI chatbot these days, and everyone's favourite provider of reasonably-priced middle-tier furniture is no different. 

Reddit is facing a revolt from some of its most popular subreddits.

Microsoft is preparing to move some of its top artificial intelligence researchers from China to Vancouver, per reporting by The Financial Times. 

Why it matters: There’s fierce competition for AI talent between both companies and countries. Landing a handful of the world’s leading experts in the sector is a win for the AI ecosystem in Canada.