Canada is getting serious about fighting white-collar crime with a new Financial Crime Agency, and OpenAI is trying to rein in a strange side effect of its latest model: ChatGPT’s sudden obsession with goblins. Plus, Alberta separatists’ access to private voter data, Bombardier’s best cash-flow quarter in decades, Polymarket’s new insider-trading detection tools, and more.

Today on The Peak Daily, we break down a proposed mega-merger that could reshape the already concentrated elevator industry — and why Canada’s chronic elevator shortage and sky-high costs could get even worse. Then, we look at Canada’s selection as host of a new multinational defence bank designed to unlock cheaper, long-term funding for military projects, and what it could mean for Canadian defence manufacturing. Plus, in The Big Picture: the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Fed hold rates steady, families of Tumbler Ridge victims sue OpenAI, and Uber pushes deeper into travel.

In today’s episode of The Peak Daily, we dig into the warning signs behind OpenAI’s massive spending spree as the company reportedly misses key revenue and user-growth targets — raising fresh questions about whether the AI boom is outpacing sustainable business models.

Then, we look at why Canada is pushing to get serious about robots, as a new committee aims to unlock more funding and accelerate automation adoption to help tackle productivity challenges and labour shortages.