February 5, 2025

Software

Immerso And Everdome Partner To Drive Innovation In The Metaverse Through AI-Powered Experiences | HackerNoon

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 5th, 2025/Chainwire/–Immerso, an Eros Innovation company- home to Eros Media and Eros Now, and a global leader in AI innovation and intellectual property (IP), has joined forces with Everdome, pioneers in creating interactive metaverse experiences, to revolutionize digital entertainment. The partnership combines Immerso’s exceptional IP portfolio, featuring an extensive library of over 12,000 film titles, with Everdome’s immersive technology. Together, they aim to transform how audiences engage with entertainment

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As GLP-1s boom, dietician startups Berry Street, Fay each nab $50M rounds | TechCrunch

For decades, the U.S. healthcare system has struggled to address the diet-related chronic illnesses affecting nearly half of all adults. That changed in recent years with the discovery of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that help people lose weight. While insurance covers these medications, doctors frequently require patients to see a nutritionist as part of their treatment plan. “I would argue that GLP-1 for dietitians is the biggest tailwind that any single provider type in

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AR/VR

Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro, Flash-Lite and connects reasoning model Flash Thinking to YouTube, Maps and Search

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google’s Gemini series of AI large language models (LLMs) started off rough nearly a year ago with some embarrassing incidents of image generation gone awry, but it has steadily improved since then, and the company appears to be intent on making its second-generation effort — Gemini 2.0 — the biggest and best yet for consumers and

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Software

New AI Model Can ‘Think About Thinking’ Without Extra Training | HackerNoon

LLMs — “Just a Next Token Predictor”? Here’s a wild thought: imagine if you got temporary amnesia between every word you spoke, but all you had was a notebook with your previous words written in it. Every time you wanted to say something new, you’d have to completely rebuild your understanding of the conversation just by reading those past words, with no memory of why you said them or where you were going with your

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Software

QuickNode Partners With Fuse To Launch The First Layer For Businesses Powered By Polygon CDK | HackerNoon

MIAMI, Florida, February 5th, 2025/Chainwire/–QuickNode, the leading Web3 infrastructure provider, today announced a groundbreaking partnership with Fuse Network to implement the industry’s first Layer 2 (L2) for businesses, powered by QuickNode Rollups and Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) technology. This strategic collaboration marks a significant milestone in the rollups ecosystem, bringing together three powerhouse players to advance blockchain scalability and accessibility. The collaboration leverages QuickNode’s enterprise-grade infrastructure, Fuse’s user-centric Web3 payment solution stack, and Polygon

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AR/VR

Relic Entertainment unveils DLC for Company of Heroes 3

Relic Entertainment, a newly independent maker of real-time strategy games, has announced its new upcoming downloadable content (DLC) and major update for Company of Heroes 3. The Vancouver, Canada-based game studio, which spun out of Sega in 2024 and went through a period of downsizing, said it is committed to updates and community engagement to ensure that the game is a long-lasting experience for players. Its new DLC is called Fire & Steel. Justin Dowdeswell,

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Robotics

Cruise cuts nearly half of staff as GM focuses on consumer AVs – The Robot Report

When Cruise was most successful, it was running services in three cities, and it planned to expand to a dozen more in 2024. | Source: Cruise Yesterday, Cruise LLC began laying off more employees, the company confirmed to The Robot Report. The layoffs will reach nearly half of its workforce, which could affect more than 1,000 people.  These recent layoffs likely aren’t surprising to Cruise employees. In December, General Motors Co., Cruise’s parent company, said

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Tickets on sale: All Stage 2025, formerly called Early Stage | TechCrunch

Founders and investors, it’s time! TechCrunch Early Stage has evolved into TechCrunch All Stage 2025, returning to Boston on July 17. Get your tickets now and save up to $310 on select ticket types, securing your spot at the best rates. Register here for your All Stage ticket at unbeatable prices. All Stage covers all stages of scaling All Stage brings you invaluable insights at every stage of scaling your business. Moving beyond early-stage content,

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Robotics

Robotics & AI Institute, Boston Dynamics to make humanoids more useful with reinforcement learning – The Robot Report

Boston Dynamics and the Robotics & AI Institue are training Atlas in parallel simulation. Source: RAI Institute Two of the hottest technologies — humanoid robots and artificial intelligence — are converging. Boston Dynamics Inc. and the Robotics & AI Institute today announced a partnership to advance humanoids through reinforcement learning. The partners said they will establish a shared reinforcement-learning training pipeline for Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot to build dynamic and generalizable mobile manipulation behavior. Boston

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