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Nvidia Unveils DSX POD Amid Greenpeace Protest Nvidia says its DSX POD can slash AI data center deployment times, but its Berlin launch also underscored growing backlash over the industry’s rapid expansion. BERLIN – A simple imperative has defined the AI data center boom: faster,

Sensex dropped over 460 points to close at 73,249 and Nifty 50 lost 124 points to end the session at 22,688. The drop wiped off more than Rs 3 lakh crore from the total market capitalisation of all companies listed on BSE, dragging it down to Rs 458 lakh crore. Also read | Why di

Motilal Oswal Financial Services and Calliope Capital Advisors, an investment vehicle associated with the Motilal Oswal group, have applied for a combined 2.39 crore shares in Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 crore rights issue on the first day of the offer, which opened on Thursday. The el

Today we’re announcing that we’re expanding the scope of our new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups: companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. To reflect this, we’re renaming a16z Crypto to a16z

The bank is preparing to seek a review of the ruling, one of the sources told Reuters, while bondholders press for payment of coupons that have remained unpaid since Yes Bank wrote the bonds off six years ago. Last week, India's Supreme Court upheld a 2023 Bombay High Court rulin

Introducing new self-learning context enrichment in Knowledge Catalog Firat Elbey Group Product Manager, Data Analytics Vasiya Krishnan Product Lead Today, we’re launching self-learning context enrichment (preview) and a reimagined Knowledge Studio experience (preview) in Knowled

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be using ChatGPT Work. ChatGPT Work was introduced in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent that

This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and groundbreaking ideas of our 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. Out of thousands of applications, we selected 200 of the most promising startups, each bringing unique innovations to their respective industries. Th

Last year, we reported on Red Viper, a Virtual Boy emulator that added a splash of Super Game Boy-style color to Nintendo’s famously failed red-on-black “portable” 3D headset from the ’90s. Now, a new emulation experiment, VBoy Color, has taken the concept to a higher level, usin

The Last Best Place on the Internet by Richard Cooke. A quarter-century on from its founding, few sites have been as central to the development of the web as Wikipedia, which today stands in contrast to much of the modern internet. “While social media platforms fuel engagement by

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters Collectively, they spent nearly $6 million around

Tesla says it is preparing to launch its shiny gold Cybercab in new markets outside its home of Austin, Texas, in a bid to “literally take over every part of terrestrial transportation.” “We’re starting with getting people from one place to the other, but we want to basically own

Dive Brief: - Tractor Supply Company hired Fahim Siddiqui as its executive vice president and chief technology and digital officer, the rural retailer said Wednesday. He starts Monday and will report to President and CEO Hal Lawton. - Siddiqui will oversee the company’s enterpris

Why the venture box keeps shrinking, why CoreWeave is a B-tier asset, and why build-to-prod is the most important category in software Another week with Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll, and the theme ran through almost every segment: capital is concentrating into fewer names

More ways to run and share Loops Loops automate product work by responding to changes in Linear and connected tools. You can now trigger them from Slack and GitHub, share them as templates, and customize their reasoning levels. Slack and GitHub triggers Events in Slack and GitHub

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins.

One creator’s video reached 10.7M views and 53.7K bookmarks.

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The Scene Pascal Lamy negotiated China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 on behalf of the EU. A decade later, in a speech in Shanghai, Europe’s former trade commissioner lauded what he called a “win-win” outcome. But like a growing number of current and former European leaders, he’s

TV star's brother 'never recovered' from her death - Published The brother of TV presenter Caroline Flack took his own life having "never recovered" after his sister's death, an inquest heard. Paul Flack, 55, was found unresponsive at his home in Sandringham Road, Norwich, on 21

In a distributed system, you have components running in separate processes or machines. These components could be application services, database replicas, or even background workers. Since in distributed systems, we divide the system into so many components, it’s pretty common th

A commercial real estate deal passes through a long chain of hands before a commission lands: a tenant search, a tour, a letter of intent, a landlord, a co-broke split, a payment schedule. Most brokers track that chain across texts, notes, inboxes and general-purpose CRMs built f

Amazon has warned that vulnerabilities in a programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are being “broadly exploited” as governments and companies rush to secure their systems. The world’s largest cloud computing provider on Wednesday said

Spotify confirmed the reports of its crackdown on Family Plan sharing during its third-quarter call with investors, calling its new method “a routine improvement” to its existing verification tools. Over the past several days, reports had surfaced indicating that Spotify was roll

In a cautionary statement, the Sebi said several unregistered individuals were operating closed WhatsApp groups, mostly through overseas mobile numbers, and circulating unauthorised buy and sell calls under the pretext of providing free investor education. The regulator said thes

Listen to this article in summarized format The AI lab is pressing ahead to hold its initial public offering as planned in the middle of next month after making its prospectus public as early as late October, people familiar with the matter said, cautioning the plan and the dates

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders So… what now? It seems to be the question many in the energy markets are asking. We are about to enter the ninth month of the Iran war. Or Iran "conflict." At this point, it's not very clear what to call it. The only thing right n

In today’s market, no single metric defines what a Series A is, or how to raise one. At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors offered founders advice on raising one, and one of them tacked on a warning. With money pouring into AI and revenue numbers being inflated to ju

DDN joins NetApp and VAST Data at Dutch neocloud Nebul Dutch neocloud Nebul is using DDN’s Infinia OS for KV caching work, but it's not its only storage offering. Nebul, a neocloud or AI CSP, based in Leiden, Holland, was founded in 2022 by CEO and data center specialist Arnold J

Bengaluru-based electric mobility startup Ultraviolette Automotive has launched the X-47 Venom electric motorcycle alongside a new 100V VX-100 platform. The motorcycle is priced at Rs 2.65 lakh under an introductory offer, with deliveries scheduled to begin in November 2026. The

Reliance Jio IPO subscription status day 1, day 2: Jio Platforms initial public offering continued to draw strong interest from investors across categories on day 2, i.e. on Thursday, October 22. Backed by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited, Jio Platforms IPO reportedly

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Silver prices crashed in Thursday’s trade, October 22, with the December delivery contract on MCX plunging ₹8,593 per kilogram to ₹2,00,575. This was the lowest level in seven months, as escalating tensions in the Middle East pushed oil prices higher, fueling expectations of furt