Dell Technologies Inc. shares rose in premarket trading after Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said the company is building a “Dell AI factory” for Elon Musk’s startup xAI alongside Nvidia Corp.

The majority of Canadian renters say they have no plans to purchase a home, as only one quarter intend to buy over the next two years, according to new survey data from Royal LePage.

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has become synonymous with doomsday-like warnings that predict the technology could pose an existential threat, but on Wednesday, he put the spotlight on another risk he said is even more pressing for humanity.

The threat of strike action by unionized mechanics at WestJet has been dropped after both sides agreed to return to the bargaining table.

The founder and CEO of Toronto-based autonomous driving startup Waabi says her company is on the verge of launching driverless freight trucks that could revolutionize North American supply chains.

After the recent pullback in shares of Shopify, Mark Mahaney from Evercore ISI thinks this is an attractive entry point to own a best-in-class e-commerce platform business. Mahaney upgraded Shopify from an “in-line” to an “outperform” rating with a target price of US$75, which is a 13 per cent potential gain from its current trading price of around $66.

In Gallatin, Tennessee, house prices have jumped by two-thirds since the pandemic, and one local commissioner incensed at nearby homebuilding said she “lives in hell.”

After the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) released data on Monday showing that the country’s home sales for 2023 were the lowest since 2008, the president and CEO of Royal LePage says the tide is about to turn.