Digital twin startup Resonai Inc. announced today that it has closed on a $20 million extension to its Series A round of funding, bringing the total amount raised to $30 million. New investors, including Meitav-Dash, Blue Square Israel and Irani Ventures, all participated in the round, as did existing backers SBI, Vive Nevo and Redds Capital. Resonai is the creator of the Vera platform, which uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality technology to convert physical spaces into intelligent digital environments that enable more immersive, real-world experiences. Using the Vera platform, a theater space, retail setting, a spacious apartment or any other kind of building can be scanned and sent to Vera's AR cloud to create a highly accurate 3D digital twin. This virtual space then becomes available via the cloud and is connected to Vera operated apps and mobile devices.

Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced Wednesday. "We're still working on the details of what's next," the company wrote in a LinkedIn post. Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 when Page recruited Sebastian Thrun, who had worked on self-driving cars and other experimental projects at Google, to create electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The company unveiled a demonstration video of a flying car in 2017, and Thrun said he envisioned a time when people would be able to hail flying cars through an app like Lyft or Uber. Kittyhawk showcased a flying car model called the Flyer in 2018 that could hold one person and fly up to 20 miles. Thrun told CNBC in an interview earlier that year that the models could take to the skies within five years.

RADNOR, PA, October 24, 2022 – Relay Network ("Relay"), the innovator of SaaS feed technology that drives unmatched customer, member and employee engagement, announced today the launch of Relay IQ, a machine learning engine that tunes and targets feed content to drive maximum engagement and value for customers and businesses. Relay IQ leverages the powerful intelligence methodology of social media feeds--which sorts content based on customer data and interaction data--and adapts it for B2C engagement. It is an integral component of the company's existing Relay FeedÔ that empowers businesses to continually deliver the type of timely, relevant content that keeps customers and social media users alike active and engaged. "Relay IQ enables leading B2C organizations such as banks and health payers to intelligently serve up relevant content for the customer on the familiar feed format, combatting the growing disengagement dilemma and creating opportunities to develop meaningful customer relationships," said Matt Gillin, CEO and Co-Founder of Relay. "What it ultimately powers are mutually beneficial outcomes for both the customer and the business."

And last month a promotional video for machine-learning firm Paperspace Co. showed talking semblances of the actors Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio. None of these celebrities ever spent a moment filming these campaigns. In the cases of Messrs. Musk, Cruise and DiCaprio, they never even agreed to endorse the companies in question. All the videos of digital simulations were created with so-called deepfake technology, which uses computer-generated renditions to make the Hollywood and business notables say and do things they never actually said or did. Some of the ads are broad parodies, and the meshing of the digital to the analog in the best of cases might not fool an alert viewer.

Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in San Francisco We are a startup within an enterpise business and have huge growth plans! Our product relies on Computer Vision to make it easier for customers to choose between different product offerings. We are headquartered in the Bay Area but have engineers throughout the country! With a remote-first culture, we strongly believe in collobaration via Microsoft Teams. Our software is used daily by millions of customers globally and we are still gaining new customers, we have exciting plans for the future!

Clario, a technology company that delivers the leading endpoint solutions for decentralized, hybrid and site-based clinical trials, today published a manuscript in Nature Medicine that outlines how AI can improve patients' experience in DCTs. This comes as remote trials continue to rise in popularity, placing increased responsibility on participants. The study explores how AI automation can support improvements in digital health user interfaces. "AI is being used to enhance user experience in customer-facing applications across many industries," said Kevin Thomas, Ph.D., Director of Artificial Intelligence at Clario, one of the researchers. "Adopting this approach in clinical trials means we can help more patients to enroll, empower them to complete trials without undue burden, and ensure they are able to submit high-quality health assessments throughout their participation."

Oracle and Nvidia announced Tuesday a new partnership that promises to drive accelerated computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionality for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle is bringing more Nvidia hardware to OCI and Nvidia's AI Enterprise platform will be available on OCI instances, the companies said, adding that the development is part of a new multi-year partnership signed between the two businesses. "Combined with OCI's AI cloud infrastructure of bare metal, cluster networking, and storage, this provides enterprises a broad, easily accessible portfolio of options for AI training and deep learning inference at scale," Oracle and Nvidia said. Oracle CEO Safra Catz said in a statement that the expanded alliance with Nvidia will help Oracle deliver new solutions in industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing, telecommunications to financial services. Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO and founder, underscored his now-familiar mantra that AI and accelerated computing are the future of business.

FL, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Metaverse Spectrum will be honoring the first-ever METAVERSE 100 winners at a breakfast reception Nov. 7 at One World Trade Center in New York. A panel of metaverse and Web 3.0 experts selected 100 of the most innovative companies they believe will determine the future of the metaverse. The award recognition breakfast will be hosted by PRophet, a Stagwell Marketing Cloud Company. In conjunction with the first-ever Metaverse Spectrum Business Conference and Expo, which takes place Oct. 25, a panel of Metaverse experts were assembled to select the METAVERSE 100, an exclusive list of the most exciting people and companies in the space today. "Our team is thrilled to sponsor and participate in the Metaverse 100 Breakfast," said Andrew Meranus, Executive Vice President at PRophet.

CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals. Companies like Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook have long recorded users' web behavior to target them with ads. Retailers such as Walmart Inc. and Kroger Co. can track when, where and how you shop for the benefit of brands that advertise with them. Uber has been building its ad business for several years, though most of its growth to date has come from ads placed on the Uber Eats food-delivery app, said Mark Grether, general manager of Uber Advertising. The ride-hailing ad business could grow far larger, Mr. Grether said, especially when self-driving cars become more common.

Stockholm, 17 October 2022 – Anoto Group AB (publ) ("Anoto") announced on 7 September 2022 that it is working with a government in the Middle East to conduct a Proof of Concept (PoC) for KAIT's AI Solution. Anoto announces today that such government is the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE). We have received a Letter of Intent (LOI) related to a possible purchase of KAIT's AI Solution from the Emirates School Establishment (ESE), which oversees public schools in the UAE. Before purchase, it is customary for schools to undergo a PoC pilot. The PoC for ESE will start in the beginning of November and finish in December of 2022. We have also secured PoCs with three private schools in UAE and one school in Jordan, making it a total of four schools in the Middle East region.