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Report: Canadian tech investment hits record $1.3 billion CAD in Q1 2018(BETAKIT)
Q1 2018 saw AI investment increase by 88 percent with $106 million ($83 million USD) invested across eight deals.
Googleâs Sergey Brin warns of the threat from AI in todayâs âtechnology renaissanceâ (THEVERGE)
Google co-founder says the company is giving âserious thoughtâ to problems like job destruction.
Waze signs data-sharing deal with AI-based traffic management startup Waycare (TECHCRUNCH)
The deal will allow the companies to combine anonymized navigation information crowdsourced from the 100 million drivers who use Waze with Waycareâs proprietary traffic analytics.
RBCâs Borealis AI expanding into Vancouver this fall (BETAKIT)
Borealis AI already has labs in Edmonton and Toronto, and announced a Montreal location in November 2017.
Adobe acquires Uru, an AI startup that embeds ads in videos (VENTUREBEAT)
The Uru team will be working on Adobe Sensei, a nebulous umbrella encompassing all of the companyâs work with AI across its entire suite of products.
Allegro.AI nabs $11M for âdeep learning as a serviceâ, for businesses to build computer vision products (TECHCRUNCH)
The funding round was led by MizMaa Ventures, with participation from Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Israeli fund Dynamic Loop Capital.
AI researchers are making more than $1 million, even at a nonprofit (NYTIMES)
One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. Now, a little-noticed tax filing by a research lab called OpenAI has made some of those eye-popping figures public.
Canvass Analyticsâ Steve Kludt on AIâs need for speed (BETAKIT)
âA lot of companies donât think of themselves as an AI company, but thereâs still a place for AI in your product.â
Australiaâs AI video startup Oovvuu raises $3.8M (DEALSTREETSASIA)
The funding round was co-led by Cygnet Capital and CapitalPitch.
Edmonton could be leader in developing uses for artificial intelligence, expert says (CALGARYHERALD)
Edmonton could become a major centre for developing ways to use the artificial intelligence (AI) that will probably drive the worldâs next industrial revolution, a top scientist in the field says.
TechAide AI conference raises $100,000 for United Wayâs Centraide (BETAKIT)
Centraide is a non-profit working to fight poverty and social exclusion in the greater Montreal area.
Europe eyes boosting data re-use and funds for AI research(TECHCRUNCH)
The European Unionâs executive body has taken a first pass at drawing up a strategy to respond to the myriad socio-economic challenges around AI technology and draw up an ethical and legal framework for steering AI developments by the end of the year.