February 6, 2025

Fintech Ramp lands Eagles’ Saquon Barkley as investor and Super Bowl commercial star | TechCrunch

Philadelphia Eagles’ star running back Saquon Barkley has not only become an investor in fintech startup Ramp, he is also the star of the company’s first Super Bowl commercial. Interestingly, it was Barkley who reached out to Ramp about investing, not the other way around as is so often the case with celebrity endorsements.  Barkley reached out after reading Peter Thiel’s book, “Zero to One,” according to Ramp CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman. Barkley chose

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Mary Ann Azevedo February 6, 2025
Hardware

Gemini 2.0: Google’s Most Powerful AI Model Is Now Available To All

Google has made a significant advancement in the realm of AI agents as of late. Last December, the tech giant launched an experimental version of its Gemini 2.0 model to developers, but in its latest move, Google has made Gemini 2.0, its most powerful suite of AI models, available to the general public. In a blog post in December, the Google revealed that they’ve been focused on developing more agentic models that possess a deeper understanding

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Victor Awogbemila February 6, 2025

Adaptive Attacks Expose SLM Vulnerabilities and Qualitative Insights | HackerNoon

Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Background Part 3: Attacks & Countermeasures Part 4: Experimental Setup Part 5: Datasets & Evaluation Part 6: Attack, Countermeasure Parameters, & Baseline: Random Perturbations Part 7: Results & Discussion Part 8: Transfer Attacks & Countermeasures Part 9: Conclusion, Limitations, & Ethics Statement Part 10: Appendix: Audio Encoder Pre-training & Evaluation Part 11: Appendix: Cross-prompt attacks, Training Data Ablations, & Impact of random noise on helpfulness

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Phonology Technology February 6, 2025

Transfer Attacks Reveal SLM Vulnerabilities and Effective Noise Defenses | HackerNoon

Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Background Part 3: Attacks & Countermeasures Part 4: Experimental Setup Part 5: Datasets & Evaluation Part 6: Attack, Countermeasure Parameters, & Baseline: Random Perturbations Part 7: Results & Discussion Part 8: Transfer Attacks & Countermeasures Part 9: Conclusion, Limitations, & Ethics Statement Part 10: Appendix: Audio Encoder Pre-training & Evaluation Part 11: Appendix: Cross-prompt attacks, Training Data Ablations, & Impact of random noise on helpfulness

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Phonology Technology February 6, 2025
Robotics

Robotics leads a revolution on the farm, explains HELUKABEL – The Robot Report

Robotics, digitalization, and vertical and precision agriculture can improve yields, says HELUKABEL. Source: Adobe Stock The agriculture industry is faced with tremendous changes driven by climate change, a growing global population, and the increasing scarcity of resources such as water and farmable land. In order to tackle these challenges, the industry is relying on technical innovation. Trends such as precision farming, digitalization, and robotics are intended to help farmers produce more bountiful harvests more efficiently

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The Robot Report Staff February 6, 2025
Hardware

Apex Legends Anti-Cheat Beatdown Bans 1.2K Accounts And Erases 17.4M Ranked Points

Even as EA is working on ways to revive Battlefield, it hasn’t forgotten it has a successful competitive multiplayer experience with Apex Legends. The development team released its first blog post of the year detailing some of the improvements players can expect. Specifically, when it comes to combatting cheaters alongside some of the changes coming to the game’s matchmaking algo. One of the biggest issues facing Apex Legends is teaming, where several squads work together

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Alan Velasco February 6, 2025
Hardware

OpenAI Gives ChatGPT Eyes And Ears On WhatsApp, Here’s How It Works

Last December, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT was available on WhatsApp, which allowed users to chat with the AI language model without needing a browser or a mobile app. However, this upgrade had limitations—WhatsApp ChatGPT users couldn’t send images or voice notes to communicate with ChatGPT, for example. Yesterday, OpenAI shared on X that a new ChatGPT WhatsApp update has been released, however, making it possible for users to send pictures and voice notes to chat

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Victor Awogbemila February 6, 2025
Start-ups

Intel Capital fuels TrueFoundry’s $19M funding to help boost AI deployments at scale | TechCrunch

TrueFoundry, a startup run by a group of former Meta engineers to help enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, has raised $19 million in fresh investment led by Intel Capital. With GenAI’s emergence following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, enterprises of all sizes have looked at ways they could embrace AI. But GenAI relies on large language models to deliver intelligence (read efficiency), demanding significant compute power. Not all enterprises have the advantage

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Jagmeet Singh February 6, 2025

Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine | TechCrunch

Fizz, the college social app, is looking for ways to enhance and expand its platform, and a recent new hire is poised to help drive these ambitions. The company has brought on David Vasquez, who previously served as TikTok’s head of creator monetization and a product lead for TikTok Shop, as Fizz’s new head of product.  With Vasquez’s help, Fizz plans to build out its recommendation system, look at expanding its marketplace beyond peer-to-peer transactions

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Aisha Malik February 6, 2025
Start-ups

Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand | TechCrunch

Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global supply chains. More recently, the “TikTok-ification” of retail has companies like Shein and Temu creating new products constantly as consumer demands change at the same rapid pace. Pendulum aims to help companies better plan for supply and demand in this new on-demand economy. Pendulum’s software connects all of a company’s fragmented internal data sources, like inventory, procurement, and pricing,

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Rebecca Szkutak February 6, 2025

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