The company has experience in robotics, deploying self-navigating Autonomous Indoor Vehicles in its Gigafactory. It’s part of a push to be seen as “much more than an electric car company,” per TechCrunch. How we got here: Tesla announced it was building a supercomputer to train its AV neural networks in June this year.

Not to be outdone, Alibaba announced earlier this year that it would develop a self-driving truck in partnership with logistics company Cainiao. The opportunity: Autonomous vehicles could turn into the next digital frontier for Xiaomi if the company hits a ceiling on new smartphone users.

The carmarker, which has a history of rushing solutions to market, launched coverage that uses software still in beta to evaluate real-time driving behavior.

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About 4 in 10 consumers noticed which retailers didn’t adjust their checkout experiences during the pandemic, per Paysafe—driving businesses to accelerate upgrade plans. New offerings will emphasize self-pay solutions.

Auto insurers’ $18 billion in premium refunds couldn’t offset poor communication ratings—insurers will likely invest in digital communication tools to fuel more effective interactions.

These devices then collect data on driving behavior, such as hard braking, fast acceleration, and time spent driving. The ML algorithm then automates processing for the driving data, and outputs personalized policies with often discounted rates: Customers who renewed their policy and earned a Snapshot discount saved an average of $145 per year.

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Similarly, NexTech rolled out ARitize, a self-service AR publishing platform that converts 2D objects into 3D demonstrations. As the number of ARKit and ARCore devices rises, it is driving the total number of AR users up.

What it does: 3TEN8 offers cognitive operations technology for closed-loop, self-healing, and self-operating 5G networks. Its self-learning AI technology predicts outages and network degradations and delivers self-healing insights focused on preventing customer impact. Founded: 2014. Total funding: $3.7 million. Stage: Seed. Diverse team: Female co-founder.

This potential is made more palpable by the pandemic, which is driving customers to spend less time in stores and forcing retailers and brands to forge new partnerships that bring them closer to where consumers spend their time: in their cars and at home. Card Manufacturers.