AI’s insatiable demand for power has tech companies hunting for new energy sources — a search that has fueled competition and investment into fusion and fission startups. For many, natural gas is the easy answer for 24/7, baseload power. It’s tested, inexpensive, and widely available. But the war in the Middle East exposed its vulnerable…
Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has produced some of the biggest tech companies in the world, from Airbnb and Reddit to Dropbox, Zapier and Stripe. That’s why we make it a point to keep an eye…
NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting a ‘Rollout-as-a-Service’ philosophy, the system decouples agentic rollout orchestration from the training loop. This architectural shift addresses the inherent resource conflicts between I/O-intensive environment interactions and GPU-intensive policy updates that currently bottleneck agent development. The…
When an 82-year-old Kentucky lady was provided $26 million from an AI firm that needed to construct an information heart on her land, she stated no. Positive, that very same firm can attempt to rezone 2,000 acres close by anyway, however as AI infrastructure stretches additional into the actual world, the actual world is beginning to push again. That pressure…
A hacking group backed by the Iranian authorities dubbed “Handala” mentioned on Friday that it has breached the non-public e mail account of FBI director Kash Patel. In a publish on its web site, Handala included a number of footage of a visibly youthful Patel, in addition to a hyperlink to a cache of information…
For the higher a part of a decade, Whoop bought itself as a secret weapon for severe athletes. LeBron James was satisfied to slap on the corporate’s health band in Whoop’s first yr. Michael Phelps got here quickly after. Different Whoop wearers embrace Cristiano Ronaldo, Patrick Mahomes, and Rory McIlroy. The message to the general…
The European Union’s prime govt physique has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole reams of knowledge from its cloud storage. European Fee spokesperson Nika Blazevic confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday that the Fee “found a cyber-attack, which affected a part of our cloud infrastructure.” “We now have taken rapid steps and contained the assault….
Bodily Intelligence, the two-year-old San Francisco robotics startup, is in discussions to lift about $1 billion in new funding at a valuation exceeding $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal would successfully double the corporate’s $5.6 billion valuation in simply 4 months. Founders Fund is about to take part with Lightspeed Enterprise Companions additionally in…
SoftBank has taken on a brand new $40 billion mortgage to assist it cowl its $30 billion dedication to spend money on OpenAI as a part of the AI mannequin maker’s record-breaking $110 billion increase final month, the Japanese conglomerate said on Friday. Most hanging is that the mortgage is unsecured and has a 12-month…
The world’s prime AI analysis convention, the Convention on Neural Info Processing Techniques—higher referred to as NeurIPS—turned the most recent group this week to turn out to be embroiled in a rising conflict between geopolitics and international scientific collaboration. The convention’s organizers introduced after which rapidly reversed controversial new restrictions for worldwide contributors after Chinese…
