NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for writing GPU kernels. Rust code could already launch CUDA kernels, but the kernel body usually had to be written elsewhere. CUDA Rust closes that gap with two NVlabs open-source projects: cuda-oxide for the SIMT model and cutile-rs for the newer Tile…
OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air. The announcement appears to demonstrate the stunning power for AI to advance mathematics. But it has been marred by claims from another mathematician, Tristan…
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date — and one that requires significantly more trust than social media ever did. On Tuesday, the company introduced Muse, its new personal AI agent…
Apple will host its annual iPhone event on Wednesday, September 9 at 10 AM PDT, and it’s expected to be a big one. All signs point to Apple’s long-awaited entrance into the foldable smartphone market, finally shipping this kind of hardware about seven years after Samsung did. Apple has a YouTube stream prepared for the…
Google Cloud and Accenture are working together on a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to help them better adopt Google’s AI tools and services. The new unit, dubbed Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, is Google’s latest foray into the increasingly competitive world of “forward-deployed engineers,” or FDEs. Rivals in the AI race,…
Final October, Google mentioned it might convey an Iowa nuclear energy plant again from the lifeless. Now, the ability’s proprietor, NextEra Vitality, has obtained a $1.9 billion mortgage from the U.S. Division of Vitality to finance the refurbishment. The sizable mortgage is the second of its form, suggesting that the Trump administration views revived nuclear…
French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation of greater than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), confirming earlier rumors. This Collection D spherical, which Mistral stated is “the most important fairness fundraising spherical ever accomplished by a European know-how firm,” was led by…
Silicon Valley is understood for embracing the ethos of “transfer quick and break issues.” Poseidon Aerospace’s co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov simply desires to maneuver issues quick. When he was engaged on logistics at Amazon in 2024, Zagaynov and his Poseidon co-founder Parker Tenney (who was at Lockheed Martin) discovered themselves repeatedly speaking concerning the…
The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or liquid oxygen. It’s cash, and Stoke Space Technologies is tanking up. The company has now “completed the initial closing” of a $1 billion Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger…
Last week, Reducto announced r-1. It is the first model in a new parsing family built on a rewritten architecture, and it replaces the company’s multi stage agentic OCR with one full page pass. Reducto says r-1 is more accurate than its most powerful legacy agentic models, faster, and up to 6x cheaper. Is it…
