Klarna's AI Takeover, Honda's XR Breakthrough, and VR Therapy Success Stories
Plus, AI makes incredible revelations in cancer studies and Apple Music fined $1.8B
Good day readers! We hope it’s still your human form reading our weekly roundup, cause things look like they’re changing a lot. Check out the top stories:
Top Stories
Klarna’s OpenAI integration mimics human interaction: Chatbot replaced 700 workers, handling two-thirds of the company's customer service queries.
Honda's XR Mobility Experience revolutionizes personal mobility: Honda's XR Mobility Experience integrates VR technology in personal mobility.
VR Therapy offers relief to palliative care patients: Over 50% of palliative care patients benefit from short VR sessions.
In Funding
Silence Laboratories secures $4.1 million in funding: $4.1 million funds will be used to grow its cryptographic security operations.
Inkitt secures $37M funding for storytelling: Inkitt to expand content production and develop personalized stories in self-publishing platform.
$6M in funding for AR glasses with multimodal AI nets: Funding of $6 million to launch AR glasses powered by AI assistant Noa.
Keep an eye on
Media: Apple receives €1.8B fine for limiting app developers from promoting other music services.
Entertainment: Ghosts of Tabor reveals new in game features and introduces a 'Streamer Camera' option for PC VR gaming;
Enterprise: Superhuman introduces instant email response feature powered by AI; Google reveals two new open LLMs for commercial use.
Health: UK researchers use AI to discover two distinct types of prostate cancer.
Training & Development: Intangles introduces new feature that monitorises diesel particulate filter regeneration.
Events to be at
March 16 - 21 Shangai, China | IEEE VR
March 18-19 San Francisco, USA | PGConnects
March 20-21 Texas, USA | DSS
April 3 – 4 Stuttgart, Germany | XR Expo
May 14 – 22 May Cannes, France | Cannes XR
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March 04 2024 Edition - Issue 38