Hypebot reports: “Though the music business has often been an early adopter of new tech, doing so has often resulted in considerable blowback, and the integration of artificial intelligence into the creative sector of the music business is proving to be no exception.”
Forbes reports: “Volumetric capture studio launches augmented reality app with two holographic performances from Eurovision artist Laura Rizzotto, including a historic debut.”
VentureBeat reports: “Swedish startup Coherence has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to create an open source platform to democratize connected game development.”
Variety reports: “Spotify has set plans for its first-ever music awards — with the winners based entirely on user-generated data.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “Roku, Amazon Fire, Google Chromecast and other digital TV devices are becoming the new middlemen between apps and consumers — what happens when there is conflict?”
Forbes reports: “Esports organization Misfits Gaming Group is launching a $10 million seed fund and incubator for gaming startups called MSF.IO.”
VentureBeat reports: “GameAnalytics has launched a new insights platform called Benchmarks+, which shows data on real-world, aggregated performance data for mobile gaming metrics like retention, engagement, and monetization.”
gamesindustry.biz reports: “Mobile development and publishing platform company N3twork has announced the closure of a $40 million Series C financing round to help expand its portfolio and services.”
Hypebot reports: “Sonos has acquired Snips, an Artificial Intelligence voice platform for smart speakers focused on private voice technology for $37.5 million. Voice control on Sonos has come via partnerships with Amazon, Google and others.”
TechCrunch reports: “Human rights charity Amnesty International is the latest to call for reform of surveillance capitalism — blasting the business models of “surveillance giants” Facebook and Google in a new report which warns the pair’s market dominating platforms are ‘enabling human rights harm at a population scale.’”
