Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Etched on Tuesday announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion…
Frechette holds mid-campaign cabinet meeting ahead of counter-tariffs
Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette has called a special cabinet meeting for Monday, putting her election campaign on hold one day before Canadian retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods are set to take effect. Fréchette’s office confirmed Sunday that the cabinet meeting will be held virtually at 6 p.m., but the agenda for cabinet meetings is not disclosed in…
H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language model and repurpose it as an encoder. The result still carries a separately pretrained vision tower and a causal decoder that never generates a token. That is parameter and compute overhead for a task that…
Several belugas from Marineland have health issues, Chicago aquarium says
A Chicago aquarium says several of the belugas that were transferred to its site from Ontario’s Marineland have health issues. Shedd Aquarium says in a Friday statement it is conducting round-the-clock supervision and teams are monitoring the whales’ hydration, breathing rates, swim patterns, social interaction and other behaviours. The aquarium’s update comes after it reported…
PCB presses PSL defaulters
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has warned stakeholders with outstanding payments to clear their dues, telling them that financial difficulties or other circumstances would not exempt them from their obligations. PCB officials delivered the message during a recent meeting of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Governing Council in London, where the league's finances and…
Amazon-contracted airplane crashes at Miami airport after overrunning runway – Nationwide
Descrease article font dimension Enhance article font dimension A cargo airplane with Amazon’s emblem overran a runway in Miami after touchdown, with video displaying smoke and flames pouring from the airplane after it got here to a relaxation. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated in a submit on X at about 3:11 p.m. that…
Inter and Roma roar again to win thrillers
Lautaro Martinez and Marcus Thuram had been each on the mark as Inter beat Napoli. Photograph: AFP ROME: A final-gasp winner from Lautaro Martinez sealed a breathless win for Inter because the Serie A champions fought again from two targets right down to edge visiting Napoli 3-2, whereas Roma additionally pulled off a late turnaround…
Nova Scotia mourning woman who died in province’s severe flooding: premier
Nova Scotia’s premier says the province is in mourning after a woman died during the flooding that affected the province this weekend. Nova Scotia RCMP said Sunday they had located the body of a Cleveland, N.S. woman after she went missing the previous morning. Police said they had found her vehicle parked near her residence…
Sabalenka surges past Townsend to reach US Open quarter-finals
Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka celebrates after winning her round of 16 match against Taylor Townsend of the US Open, Flushing Meadows, New York, United States, September 6, 2026. — Reuters World number one Aryna Sabalenka charged into the US Open quarter-finals on Sunday, beating American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-3 to keep her bid for a rare…
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Depending on which corner of social media you frequent, the Tesla Cybercab event was either…
U.S. envoys Witkoff, Kushner hold ‘encouraging’ talks in Ukraine – National
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held “encouraging” talks in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push to end more than four-and-a-half years of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The trip by the Americans follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, as…