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On this week's episode, we talk with the co-founder of a company that is building what CrackBerry Kevin calls the best BlackBerry never built.

And speaking of building things, we also talk with Canada's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources about what Canada must do to turn its resources in the ground into mines, processing, investment, and greater sovereignty.

Well, and while I don't recommend swapping your kid's old-school scooter or bike for an electric one, coming up next, Amber's going to dive into why you might wanna swap your current iPhone for a new smartphone from a Canadian co-founder.

That's after the break.

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It's been more than two decades since the BlackBerry made its debut, which was a huge global success from a proud Canadian company.

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When Amber and I were at the All In conference in Montreal, Canada's largest AI event, we spent an evening at an underground audio lounge called Subterra, where Amber moderated a conversation between Cohere CEO and co-founder Aiden Gomez and chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.

Thanks to Cohere for giving us permission to share this conversation on the show.

And thank you for joining us on this week's episode.

As always, you can find us online at Amber Mac and at Jeff MacArthur.

And we'll be back next week with another great episode of The Amber Mac Show.

I can't.

Amber Mac joins us on Toronto Today.

[laughs] It's great to have you on again.

Thanks for the time.

And listen, even after I posted that, a few days later we saw that, uh, there was an attack o- on a bus, and it was totally random, and multiple people were attacked.

So w- we are, I think, on thin ice here if we don't do something soon.

Amber Mac's kind enough to join us on Toronto today.

What do your, um, female friends tell you about riding the TTC? Are they confident or are they, have they changed their plans? Are they like, "I won't go here.

You won't get anywhere with that person if there is something wrong and they never say so.

That's courageous of Amber Mac to say that.

And yet there's probably double digit scenarios in which the concept is, hey, report this, report this, report that, report it all.

She didn't report any of that stuff because it just is what it is.

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Welcome to this week's episode of "The Amber Mac Show." We recently took the show on the road.

Jeff and I were at All-In in Montreal catching up with past guests and discussing the role of humans in the age of artificial intelligence.

And as you'll hear soon, All-In is the biggest AI conference in Canada at a time when we need to build and grow faster.

Indeed, uh, uh, another big announcement, uh, was the signing of the finalized agreement for Canada's Cohere, our very own LLM provider, to acquire the German AI startup Aleph Alpha, a company that develops large language models that emphasize the transparency of sources used to generate its results.

This merger, which will have headquarters in both Toronto, where Cohere currently is headquartered, and Berlin, not only helps better address the trust issue that's so omnipresent when discussing AI, but it also helps Cohere to better challenge US-China AI dominance.

Uh, we also had a chance to see, uh, quite a few former guests of "The Amber Mac Show." We didn't really plan it this way, [chuckles] but, uh, on stage, uh, Canada's AI minister, Evan Solom-Solomon, was doing a, a great session, and he's been a guest on the show.

Also, the founding director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy, Taylor Owen, we got to spend some time with him.

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In this week's episode, Jeff and I do a deep dive on Apple's new product announcements, including the long-rumored foldable iPhone.

Plus, in a time of increasing wildfire concerns, our guest today will explain how their company is using AI to help Canadians detect wildfire activity in their area before it's too late.

In the meantime, please let us know what you do think of that iPhone Duo on social media or any of the other Apple products that we have mentioned as well.

And coming up next, we're going to talk about how artificial intelligence can help Canada and the world and keep us safer from wildfires.

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Wildfire coverage this season has mostly focused on suppression, evacuation, and after-the-fact costs.