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The solutions developed through this competition should provide the foundation for a new product or company.

The Swedish automotive company has signed a deal with Norwegian mine Brønnøy Kalk to transport limestone along five kilometers of roads and tunnels from the mine to a nearby port using self-driving trucks.

Tickets are free using the code BetaKit_FM.

Silk Lab’s focus on privacy may have been a draw for Apple: the startup says its algorithm only sends “key” video moments to the cloud, instead of a constant stream, and that it anonymizes data on its Silk Intelligence platform.

Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.

ISARA’s mission is to awareness of quantum threats, and design and implement quantum-safe solutions that will work globally.

Canada should do more to welcome robots into its workforce as it lags behind East Asia in automation, according to a new report from a technology think tank.

The round was led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from other shareholders including Volcanics Venture and Vertex Ventures.

Researchers have pinpointed a part of the human brain responsible for “on-the-fly” decision-making. According to the findings published in JNeurosci, the anterior cingulate cortex integrates disparate information about the desirability and amount of an option to inform choice.

The two seem complementary, with Deepcore focused on starting new ventures and investing in AI companies more generally, while Zeroth operates Asia’s first accelerator program targeted at AI and machine learning startups.

The new DiDi Labs in Toronto, which will focus on research into intelligent driving and artificial intelligence, will be led by Jun YU, Senior Vice President of DiDi and chair of DiDi’s Product & Design Committee.

Wluper’s “conversational AI” is initially targeting navigation products with what it describes as “goal-driven dialogue” technology that is designed to have more natural conversations to help with various navigation tasks.