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Joe Castaldo

@Joe_Castaldo

Business reporter at The Globe and Mail (@globebusiness). Formerly @Macleans and @cdnbiz

 Toronto
Joined August 2010
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‘Offensive’ biography of Oct. 7 victim sold on Amazon bears hallmarks of AI generation theglobeandmail.com/business…
‘Offensive’ biography of Oct. 7 victim sold on Amazon bears hallmarks of AI generation

‘Offensive’ biography of Oct. 7 victim sold on Amazon bears hallmarks of AI generation

Biography of Canadian Judih Weinstein Haggai comes as platforms see rise of low-quality media produced by artificial intelligence and designed to make a quick buck

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Lost gigs and lower pay: How AI is already affecting freelance artists and writers theglobeandmail.com/business…

Lost gigs and lower pay: How AI is already affecting freelance artists and writers

Some freelance workers, who may have no union protection or benefits, are experiencing lost opportunities, more competition or having to work with AI applications for less pay

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France seeks extradition of another Canadian tied to EncroChat encrypted phone service theglobeandmail.com/business…
France seeks extradition of another Canadian tied to EncroChat encrypted phone service

France seeks extradition of another Canadian tied to EncroChat encrypted phone service

The extradition request to Switzerland is the latest in a series of similar actions by French authorities, who are taking an aggressive approach to curb the spread of harmful and illegal content...

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Check out today's episode of The Decibel, where @Joe_Castaldo & I discuss our reporting on the unassuming Canadian tech nerd accused of building a digital den for drug dealers: pod.link/thedecibel/episode/…
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EXCLUSIVE: EncroChat’s Canadian leader deliberately sold encryption service to known criminals, French authorities allege /via @globeandmail with @Joe_Castaldo theglobeandmail.com/business…
EncroChat’s Canadian leader knowingly sold encryption service to criminals, French authorities...

EncroChat’s Canadian leader knowingly sold encryption service to criminals, French authorities...

A legal document contains new details about the accusations against Canadian Paul Krusky and the operations of EncroChat, which was an encrypted phone company that grew to more than 60,000 users...

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In EncroChat scandal, France accuses a little-known Canadian tech nerd of building a digital den for drug dealers theglobeandmail.com/business…
In EncroChat scandal, France accuses a little-known Canadian tech nerd of building a digital den...

In EncroChat scandal, France accuses a little-known Canadian tech nerd of building a digital den...

Paul Krusky’s company was once just one of the world’s many encrypted phone services – until French police said it was a tool of choice for criminals

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Why big tech is ok with launching janky AI apps theglobeandmail.com/business…
From hype to reality: why Big Tech is fine with launching unreliable AI apps

From hype to reality: why Big Tech is fine with launching unreliable AI apps

Generative AI companies are pushing the willingness among tech companies to release early, releases a bare-bones applications of platforms to the limit

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Energy-hungry AI models could strain water and power grids. Can the sector handle the demand? theglobeandmail.com/business…
Energy-hungry AI models could strain water and power grids. Can the sector handle the demand?

Energy-hungry AI models could strain water and power grids. Can the sector handle the demand?

We’re entering a new era of generative AI, but that boom in development comes at a cost – taxing resources and causing environmental harm

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‘I want to be like bitcoin jesus’: Court documents shed new light on origins of now-defunct crypto exchange Quadriga /via @globeandmail with @Joe_Castaldo & @MikePHager theglobeandmail.com/business…
‘I want to be like bitcoin jesus’: Court documents reveal how the Quadriga crypto scandal unfolded

‘I want to be like bitcoin jesus’: Court documents reveal how the Quadriga crypto scandal unfolded

Documents recently filed in B.C. court provide the first glimpse of the origins of what would become, for a time, Canada’s largest virtual currency exchange, before it collapsed into bankruptcy

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Cineplex pulls South Indian film screenings after incidents of threats, intimidation and talk of turf war theglobeandmail.com/business…
Cineplex pulls South Indian film screenings after incidents of threats, intimidation and talk of...

Cineplex pulls South Indian film screenings after incidents of threats, intimidation and talk of...

Movie exhibitors including Cineplex Inc. and CinéStarz have pulled screenings of the Malayalam movie Malaikottai Vaaliban as film distributors contend a turf war is being waged

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For some blind and low-vision people, AI glasses unlock a new independence theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Federal consultations on AI regulations heavily skewed toward businesses, industry groups, say critics theglobeandmail.com/business…
Federal consultations on AI regulations heavily skewed toward businesses, industry groups, say...

Federal consultations on AI regulations heavily skewed toward businesses, industry groups, say...

Some academics and opponents have faulted the government for not conducting adequate consultations before introducing AIDA and contend the act lacks crucial details

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Emerging research could help solve generative AI’s ‘hallucination’ problem theglobeandmail.com/business…

Emerging research could help stop AI from making things up

Researchers are trying a range of techniques to reduce errors and improve reliability

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Huawei funds launch of Alberta AI researcher Richard Sutton’s lab after federal restrictions theglobeandmail.com/business…

Top AI researcher launches new Alberta lab with Huawei funds after Ottawa restrictions

Richard Sutton, a professor at the University of Alberta, is launching the Openmind Research Institute based in Edmonton with $4.8-million in funding from Huawei Canada

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AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that theglobeandmail.com/business…

AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that

Earlier this year, Sara Hooker embarked on an effort to build an LLM called Aya that can converse in 101 languages, including Somali, Yoruba, Japanese, Malay, Telugu and Vietnamese

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Meet the gig workers making AI models smarter theglobeandmail.com/business…
Meet the gig workers making AI models smarter

Meet the gig workers making AI models smarter

As artificial intelligence gets more powerful, the workers training the top generative AI systems are largely underpaid, overworked, and stuck in precarious employment situations

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Learning to code takes on a new meaning as AI shakes up programming theglobeandmail.com/business…

Learning to code takes on a new meaning as AI shakes up programming

Canadian companies are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot and seeing productivity gains, though the long-term implications for coders are unclear

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AI is coming for voice actors, but some see an opportunity theglobeandmail.com/business…
AI is coming for voice actors, but some see an opportunity

AI is coming for voice actors, but some see an opportunity

The quality of AI generated voices has improved significantly recently and some in the industry are concerned about what it means for opportunities for work, and their ability to control how their...

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They fell in love with an AI chatbot. Now, they're heartbroken theglobeandmail.com/business…
They fell in love with the Replika AI chatbot. A policy update left them heartbroken

They fell in love with the Replika AI chatbot. A policy update left them heartbroken

Users that turned to chatbot Replika to alleviate depression, anxiety and loneliness, feel hurt after an upgrade changed their chatbot’s personality

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Victims of alleged Morrisseau art fraud include Westerkirk Capital billionaire Sherry Brydson theglobeandmail.com/arts/art…
Victims of alleged Morrisseau art fraud include Westerkirk Capital billionaire Sherry Brydson

Victims of alleged Morrisseau art fraud include Westerkirk Capital billionaire Sherry Brydson

Police in Ontario charged eight people earlier this month with churning out thousands of forged Norval Morrisseau paintings worth tens of millions of dollars

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