Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, has released Kinference, an open source project for building inference platforms on Kubernetes. Kinference is an inference control plane for Kubernetes and vLLM. It sits in front of a fleet of vLLM workers and decides where each request goes. It applies routing policies, token rate…
Bowling coach says Islamabad visit offers chance to assess emerging talent; rookie pacer Ali Shabbir impresses him Pakistan bowling coach Shaun Tait has expressed confidence in the country’s bowling resources after getting an opportunity to assess a group of domestic and international players at Islamabad Club playing against Sri Lanka, saying the visit allowed him…
LONDON: David Moyes said Thierno Barry had proved his point after the Everton striker’s double inspired a 3-1 win against Coventry on Friday. Moyes’s side trailed to Yann Gboho’s goal early in the second half at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. But Barry proved too hot for Coventry to handle, netting twice in the space of…
Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful. His new venture, Physicl, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Inovia Capital…
Jason Maas isn’t losing sleep over who starts at quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday. Whether it’s Zach Collaros or Dru Brown under centre, the Montreal Alouettes head coach insists his team will be ready for Saturday’s East Division final at Percival Molson Stadium. “What do I make of it? I mean, I…
MUMBAI: India fast bowler Mohammed Shami said he would continue playing white-ball cricket and remain available for domestic multi-day matches after retiring from Test cricket on Friday, bringing the curtain down on a 13-year red-ball career. The 36-year-old, who took 229 wickets in 64 Tests after making a memorable debut against West Indies in 2013,…
Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it. A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. According to Ramp’s data, token spend only grew…
Canada’s 2026 budget, announced Thursday, proposes extending the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act to Jan. 1, 2029. However, it would exempt new residential properties. The current ban is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2027, but this proposal would extend it by two years, except when it comes to new…
Right before the midterm elections, OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. The company also said it would start calling its data centers “compute campuses.” For the past two years, many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names have built closer ties with President Donald Trump and his administration. Several attended White House events,…
A Halifax-area clothing brand is feeling the impact of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States and is being forced to make changes to how it does business. Fairechild creates outerwear from sustainable fabric made of recycled plastic bottles and produced by a German company. The small-batch operation has all its garments…
