There has been an acceleration in autonomous vehicle innovation recently in both the private and public markets, sparking excitement on the future of transport.

Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) has won a $4 million contract from the United States Department of Homeland Security to use their proprietary AI software and hardware.

Artificial intelligence chip company Cerebras has filed an S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to formally register for an IPO.

Multiple publicly traded companies have been ramping up the development of smart glasses technology, which has led to a flurry of new products and investments.

Perimeter Medical Imaging AI (TSXV: PINK) has raised $9.8M CAD in a new financing round, which was led by Chamath Palihapitiya's family office Social Capital.

Generative artificial intelligence marketplace Arcade AI has raised $17 million in venture funding in a round co-led by Reid Hoffman and Ashton Kutcher.

Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) has deployed their first revenue generating GPU cluster to provide access to computing for artificial intelligence workloads.

POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET) and Mitsubishi Electric have entered into a new partnership to co-develop integrated optical engine chipsets for transceivers.

Lionsgate (NASDAQ: LION) has partnered with artificial intelligence company Runway to begin building artificial intelligence models which are trained on movies.

BlackRock and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are partnering together to launch a new $30 billion fund for the purpose of building out new data centres.