Jude Sacramenthas @JSacramenthas

.@im_roy_lee's most controversial interview yet? "I tried to go to therapy once and the whole time I was just thinking 'man this person is retarded'" - Doesn't believe in mental illness - Gives his advice to obese people - Talks about how many users all their crazy marketing…

Trump just slapped a $100K fee on H-1B visas — 70% of which go to India. Big Tech shrugs. Startups get kneecapped. @garrytan put it: this is a massive gift to overseas hubs. 🇨🇦 Cities like Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal stand to benefit. Is Canada going to take this op?

Pumped that Graphite Ventures is backing Mycroft as they move out of stealth with a $3.5M seed! Huge congrats to Mike, Jonathan & Jan — just the beginning 🚀

Brampton’s innovation ecosystem has built serious velocity in just 5 years 🚀 From Bhive & Altitude to Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst & BVZ, the momentum is real. Where will Brampton be in 5 more years? 👀

Waterloo Tech Week reminded me: the next generation is already building. Teens shipping MVPs. Students exploring startups. Capital efficiency everywhere. The barrier to entrepreneurship is lower than ever—and the future’s being built now. 💡🇨🇦 #WaterlooTechWeek

Important shift flagged by @Cato_P4 The end of the de minimis exemption will reshape cross-border trade. It reins in giants like Shein/Temu, but also puts pressure on Canadian exporters. Founders need to adapt quickly. Great breakdown here from Cato. Worth a read.

🚨 Anthropic just pulled off one of the biggest raises in tech history: $13B. Valuation? $183B — nearly 3x in just 6 months. The AI market may look “cooling” on the surface, but investor appetite for frontier labs is still on fire.

GPT-5 just dropped. Smarter. Faster. Multimodal. Better reasoning. Fewer hallucinations. Available today to all ChatGPT users (yes, even Free). AI just leveled up again. Are you ready? 🔗 openai.com/index/introduc… #GPT5 #AI #ChatGPT

Q2’25 AI funding hit $47.3B, but the big story is capital efficiency. ⚡ 72% of deals = early-stage 📈 M&A is driving DPI 🇨🇦 Canada quietly leads deal size growth You don’t need $100M to win. Full breakdown in my new blog: medium.com/@jsacramenthas… #ai #startup #tech

🇺🇸 The U.S. just dropped a 25-page AI Action Plan. It’s not just policy—it’s a full-stack strategy for global AI dominance: chips, compute, energy, models, and exports. I read it so you don’t have to. Here’s what it means for startups + Canada 👇 medium.com/@jsacramenthas…

According to PitchBook, the ratio of PE investments to exits just hit 3.14x—the highest in a decade. This signals a broader trend: dry powder is being deployed aggressively, while exit paths remain slow to reopen. Patience & capital efficiency will matter more than ever.

OpenAI is reportedly building a native checkout experience inside ChatGPT that would let users make purchases from third-party vendors directly within the chatbot. The move could position ChatGPT as a transactional platform, not just a conversational one.

When giants played chess, @cognition_labs picked up the pieces. While @OpenAI & @Google battled over @windsurf_ai, Cognition quietly took the team, product, customers & loyalty, at a fraction of the price. That’s not luck. That’s strategy. #AI #MergersAndAcquisitions #Cognition

📍Web Summit Vancouver — Ops Insight #1 While in Vancouver with Sanket, we picked up something simple but powerful from the Cohere team: Bake-offs. Whenever they need a new tool — for ops, data, internal workflows — they don’t just pick the loudest vendor. They shortlist 2–3.

Part #5 3) Trust/fit in the recommendation/search results of ChatGPT enabled "complex search".   And many others.   With all that said, I am hopeful about #ChatGPT and how it will shape the future.   How about you?

Part #4 1) How poorly Bard performs (hopefully they don't fumble too often like what happened on the ad)   2) How much value/use we place on "complex searches" which will be enabled by ChatGPT. vs. "simple searches" that google has been known to be dependable for.

Part #3 Will the integration of ChatGPT help change the search landscape? Definitely! 🚀 🚀 🚀   Google has been dominating search with an ~88% US Market Share. That being said Bing's success will still be dependent on:

Part #2 While Bing did make $8.5bn in revenue, it has never really caused any real noise... that is until now. The AI-powered Bing seemly has started to turn things around since last Thursday having its best ever day of downloads.

Part #1 Bing vs. Google There hasn't been much innovation in #search , but with Microsoft announcing the integration of ChatGPT into Bing it seems like a new era of competition will be in full force.

The State of Venture 2022 report is out for CB Insights, here are the highlights: Total Global Venture Funding: is down 35% YoY at $415.1B US Venture Funding: 37% YoY Drop Global IPOs: 31% YoY Drop to 716 Unicorns born in Q4’22: 19 down 86% YoY Mega-round Fund: 49% YoY drop