Six Canadian and US newsrooms tied the 2023 wildfires to climate change in more than 30% of stories
Concordia researchers found more than 30% of almost 2,000 stories on Canada's 2023 wildfires in six outlets explicitly tied the fires to climate change. The data cover one record season, so whether newsrooms kept drawing the link afterwards is still untested.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Cohere's annual recurring revenue reached $240m in early 2026. The $20bn valuation attached to its Aleph Alpha merger prices that at about 83 times, against roughly 70 times when the Toronto company was worth $7bn last September.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 7%
- Operator
- Operator 22%
- Investor
- Investor 71%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Cohere's $20B round prices its recurring revenue at 83 times
The Globe and Mail reports talks to raise $2 billion to $3 billion at a valuation nearly triple last September's $7 billion, with Ottawa and Berlin in the conversation and most of the money expected to come from private investors.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption41
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives74
- Confidence42
buildOne report1 publisher Ontario wants new data centres in their own rate class, and the comment window shuts September 12
A proposed Ontario framework would gate grid connections for facilities above 1 MW behind government approval and make developers fund their own electricity costs. Consultation closes September 12.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
Chipflation, not the Sept. 8 tariffs, is the real margin risk for Canadian hardware
A Canadian PC maker says the memory shortage prices every unit he builds, while his tariff exposure turns on where the CPU was made. Input cost, not trade policy, is the hedgeable variable.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence44
Three Presales, Three Outages: AMC Approves $2m in IT Spend After Dune Crush
Onsales that open four months before release concentrate a year's peak traffic into one morning. AMC's CEO says Dune traffic ran triple the last Spider-Man, and the stack did not hold.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption61
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence55