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How much control are you willing to give an LLM over your digital life? Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys. For a control freak or the AI-hesitant, it seems like a lot. For Andrew Ambrosino, the lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop app, it’s the only way t

NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the most versatile machine ever built, delivering high throughput and interactivity across the widest range of AI workloads—fr

AI factories are interconnected systems where fleet economics depend on how efficiently the entire stack converts power and capital into completed agent tasks. While GPUs run the models, CPUs handle orchestration, tool execution, and sandboxed computation. Unlike conventional com

Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users, agents, applications, data sources, and storage systems to massively accelerated compute at multi-terabit bandwidth per se

Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom, as rising electricity demand spurs investment in new capacity despite the US administration’s efforts to thwart a solar and wind rollout. Clean energy additions will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, according

Africa continues to face the world’s largest electricity access gap with a shortfall in investment “the central constraint,” the latest Africa Sustainable Development Report said. Access to electricity increased from approximately 46% in 2015 to about 53% in 2023, yet nearly 600

Data Empire by Roopika Risam. Risam takes readers back to the dawn of data, charting the course of human recordkeeping from Mesopotamian farming to present-day surveillance technology. Inspired by an incident in her own life in which she discovered a singular database error that

Dive Brief: - Ann Taylor is targeting multifaceted, modern working women with its first major integrated marketing campaign in nearly a decade, according to a press release. - “This Is Ann” centers on ads that show a busy mom as she sports outfits for various occasions, including

Nigeria’s Dangote Group has offered East African countries a 30% stake in a new oil refinery planned in northern Kenya, Bloomberg reported. Ethiopia and Rwanda have already expressed an interest in investing in the facility in Lamu, according to Kenyan President William Ruto’s to

Nigeria’s antitrust regulator ordered MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile operator, to sell a 30% stake in its Nigerian tower unit to local investors as a condition to secure approval for the $6.2 billion acquisition of IHS Holdings. The ruling underscores Abuja’s push to deepen l

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde reportedly told the World Economic Forum board she was “ready to serve” as the organization behind the annual gathering of business and political leaders in Davos grapples with questions over succession. Lagarde has been seen as t

Chinese tech giant Alibaba raised $10 billion in Hong Kong’s biggest-ever secondary share sale in order to keep up in the global AI race. However, some traders appeared unconvinced by the company’s plans, with its stock tanking almost 10% in trading on Monday, its steepest single

The US-Canada trade war could stoke inflation, piling pressure on the Trump administration ahead of November’s key midterm elections. Canada vowed to match 50% US tariffs after talks broke down over the weekend. Though the US levies only apply to a subset of Canadian goods, the m

Increasingly intertwined conflicts are raising the specter of a single, global war, analysts suggested. Recent reports have pointed to Russia ferrying materiel to Iran and North Korea deploying drone operators in support of Moscow, while China and Taiwan are both learning lessons

Shadowfax’s early investor Qualcomm Ventures sold 75 Lakh shares in a block deal worth ₹183.85 Cr in Shadowfax on Friday (August 21). As per BSE data, the firm, via its Qualcomm Asia Pacific Pte Limited, sold the shares at ₹245.13 apiece to rake in the amount. This is 4% less tha

General Motors electric vehicles, including ones built in partnership with Honda, are now facing increased scrutiny from the top U.S. auto safety regulator after hundreds of incidents, more than 20 crashes or fires, and at least six injuries. The brake problems also extend to som

Persistent tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz are reshaping the economies and trade routes of the Gulf and the wider world. Fewer than 20 ships transited the waterway over the weekend, with little sign of a US-Iran truce on the horizon. Qatar, which has built its internati

The US warned of an impending “economic D-Day” against Iran that could envelop some of Washington’s allies and trading partners. The US Treasury secretary will today unveil a raft of measures against Tehran and its financial and commercial “enablers,” he wrote in the Financial Ti

Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Healthify has merged with US-based nutrition care company Berry Street in an all-stock deal. The merger will combine Healthify’s AI-led health platform with Berry Street’s insurance-backed clinical care network in the US. The combined company wi

Two Intel chips break Amazon's top 10 CPUs for the first time in months — Core Ultra 7 270K and Core i7-14700K finally challenge AMD desktop dominance The parts in question offer remarkably good value for specific purposes. AMD has been the dominant force in DIY PC building CPUs

Six years ago, BigCommerce was the credible number two to Shopify in ecommerce software. Not a niche player. The only standalone, pure-play public alternative to Shopify that a public market investor could buy. It was more B2B but worryingly, wasn’t growing faster on a percentage

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today’s post was done in collaboration with Protege. Please also see our recent podcast with Engy Ziedan, Protege’s Chief Scientific Officer. You go to the doctor, and the doctor tells you: “The medical student will be taking care of yo

Healthtech startup Healthify (formerly HealthifyMe) has merged with US-based nutrition care company Berry Street to build an "advanced insurance-covered AI metabolic health platform" for the US market. The amalgamated entity will be jointly led by Healthify founder and CEO Tushar

Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported over the weekend. The startup’s platform and open source community is where developers and researchers share, find, test, and deploy AI models. Hugging Face was recently the

U.S. nutrition startup Berry Street said on Monday it has merged with Khosla Ventures-backed Indian startup Healthify to bank on the popular trend of people turning to GLP-1 drugs to lose weight. The companies didn’t disclose the financial details of the deal. A report from JP Mo

slice Small Finance Bank (SFB) has appointed former SBI chief general manager Samir Sawhney as executive director and former ICICI Bank senior executive Ramesh Kumar as independent directors on its board. Both appointments have received the approval of the bank’s board. The RBI h

Tiisetso’s view South Africa’s ruling party has found a new way to buy time. The African National Congress’ 2026 local government elections manifesto pledges free basic services to nearly 30 million people — water, electricity, sanitation, garbage removal. All automatically deliv

The reported increase in prices of servers containing NVIDIA’s AI chips could add to the cost pressures facing India’s data centre operators and AI infrastructure providers, which are committing billions of dollars to expand their GPU capacity. According to a Bloomberg report, so

The Treasury could use its near $1 trillion General Account to help fund its recently announced plans to increase purchases of government bonds, according to two senior Treasury officials. Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term

Marvell VP pushes for DDR4 recycling for use in CXL memory, amid the worst DRAM shortage in years — company introduces three-tier AI memory infrastructure One new controller and two years of existing products, repackaged for a market where memory now eats 30% of hyperscaler budge

Tom's Hardware Verdict The ROG Gjallar sounds pretty good for a soundbar, but it has a clunky design and an audio control hub that looks like it should be a lot more customizable than it is. Pros - +Slim, wireless subwoofer - +Audio control hub is... well-made? - +HDMI 2.1 with e

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