In other news, French startup Kelvin, which uses AI for home energy audits, has raised $5.1M. The U.K. and Canada are investigating a data breach at 23andMe. Dubai-based Stake has raised $14 million for its fractional property investment platform. Anterior, a company that uses AI to expedite health insurance approvals, has raised a $20 million Series A round.
Key takeaways:
- Apple kicked off WWDC 2024 with several VisionOS announcements, including a new feature that turns existing images into spatial photos using machine learning.
- The new feature is part of the VisionOS 2 release and is aimed at increasing content creation for the Vision Pro headset.
- Apple also announced that the Vision Pro headset, previously only available in the U.S., will now be available in eight new countries, including China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany.
- Other announcements from Apple include updates to iOS, with the company sharing the first details for the upcoming major release of its operating system designed for the iPhone.