The AmberMac Show

On this week’s episode, why the Canadian government is making a big investment in homegrown AI company Cohere, how AI is giving cyber attackers more power and control while providing the people defending against these attacks some much-needed help, and how Instagram is courting long-form video creators with six-figure cheques. Our guests this week are ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe on today’s cyber chaos, and Composer co-founder Tim Ketchum on why you should rethink your sink. Thanks to Snap for supporting this episode of The AmberMac Show.
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Tim Ketchum – Co-Founder of Composer
Tony Anscombe – Chief Security Evangelist of ESET

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On this week’s episode, we do a deep dive into Meta’s Muse, how the AI agent works, and why you should be careful about what you ask it to do. We also talk to Bumble’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Vivek Sagi, about how technology, including AI, can shape the way we date and what it takes to find love in a disconnected world. Plus, we’re excited to share that musician, speaker, and author David Usher is back on the show; this time, he’s sharing his journey to find out if he can sing better than A.I.
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Vivek Sagi – Chief Product and Technology Officer of Bumble
David Usher – CEO of Reimagine AI & SecondEcho, Speaker, & Musician

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Our guest this week is the President of Shopify, Harley Finkelstein, who joins us to talk about his new book and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs. In TheOtherMac, Jeff does a deep dive into Elon Musk’s kind-of, sort-of flying car. Plus, Amber and Jeff discuss how Trump’s Truth Social is shedding users, even more OpenAI agent hacks, another Meta smart glasses fiasco, and what Anthropic thinks about robots and the future of work.
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Harley Finkelstein: President of Shopify & Author of “We Can Be Entrepreneurs”

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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we’ve got a special episode of The AmberMac Show for you this week. First up, DuckDuckGo’s Chief Product Officer, Beah Burger-Lenehan, unpacks everything you need to know about switching to the internet’s most popular privacy-focused search engine, plus what the company thinks of Meta’s smart glasses (spoiler alert: it’s not good). Plus, we speak with “Privacy Lawyer” David Fraser about what’s next for digital lawmaking in Canada and why you should care. He breaks down Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act; Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy & Consumer Data Act; the C-22 Lawful Access Act; and more. We’ve also packed the show with quick cybersecurity tips to help you, your family, and the people you know stay safer online.
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Beah Burger-Lenehan: Chief Product Officer of DuckDuckGo
David Fraser: Privacy & Technology Lawyer

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In this week’s episode of The AmberMac Show, we talk to the co-founder of a company building what CrackBerry Kevin calls “the best BlackBerry never built”. Jeff Gadway, Co-founder & CMO of Clicks Technology, explains everything you need to know about the Clicks Communicator and what it’s like building a hardware company in today’s world. Speaking of building things, we also speak with Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson about what Canada must do to turn resources in the ground into mines, processing, investment, and greater sovereignty. Plus, in this week’s tech headlines, Jeff and Amber talk superintelligence, ebikes, government dating apps, and why you don’t want to post AI images in Singapore.
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Jeff Gadway: Co-founder & CMO of Clicks Technology
Tim Hodgson: Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

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