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AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

Fruit flies aren’t exactly famous for their brainpower; you’ve probably drowned more than one in a wine glass left too long on the patio table. And yet, working with roughly 140,000 neurons—a brain smaller than a poppy seed—Drosophila can sort through a huge range of smells in a

Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount ave

Waller also told Reuters NEXT that for the United States to grow its way out of a $40 trillion debt load, structural deficits would have to be brought closer to zero percent of GDP, from this fiscal year's level of around 6%. Waller said that yields have been rising due to concer

Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning. Anthropic first reported a “partial outage” related to “elevated errors on requests to Claude Myt

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful and capable one yet. OpenAI claims that Astra represents “a new frontier on computer and browser use,” and that it handles tasks with unmatched “speed, accuracy, and safety.”

With an eye on expanding its health intelligence platform, smart ring maker Ultrahuman has raised $70 Mn (nearly ₹662 Cr) in a fresh funding round, which saw participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Alpha Wave, Blume, Nexus and Alteria and others. The startup plans to use the fresh

OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as

Wearable tech startup Ultrahuman has raised $70 million in a funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Alteria and other investors. The Bengaluru-based company said it will use the capital for prod

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

Top stocks to watch today: Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Friday, 4 September, following key business developments, order wins, fundraising plans, and investment announcements made after market hours. UltraTech Cement, Power Grid Corporatio

The average rate rose to 6.71% this week from 6.66% a week earlier, mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac said on Thursday. It was the highest level since July 2025, underscoring how elevated borrowing costs continue to weigh on the housing market. Mortgage rates typically move wit

Watch: Gloria Steinem dedicated her life to fight for women's equality Gloria Steinem spent more than 60 years as one of the most prominent voices in the fight for women's rights. She launched herself into the mainstream in the 1960s with an expose of New York City's Playboy Club

Liz’s view The NBA just showed corporate wrist-slappers how it’s done. The SEC, CFTC, OSHA, EPA, etc. should take some notes. The penalty handed to the Los Angeles Clippers is the best I’ve seen as a reporter covering companies that sometimes behave badly. The Clippers will forfe

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black sued the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, seeking to block subpoenas for multiple nondisclosure agreements he was a party to and for further testimony from him as part of a probe of his and others' ties to

On Thursday, the Trump administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made drones, alarming critics who warn that high tariffs would harm public safety and devastate thousands of US businesses. Guidance posted by US Customs and Border Protection says that starting Thursda

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 3, 2026 — Forschungszentrum Jülich and Siegen-based start-up eleQtron have officially inaugurated the quantum computer JION. Developed in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), JION will be made available to research institutions and industry through the

'Adonis' Gibbs-White's chance to shine - will Tuchel take notice? - Published Morgan Gibbs-White sent out a message last season. This term he is making sure it gets delivered. In May he was snubbed by Thomas Tuchel for England's World Cup squad and responded by scoring against Bo

Use your voice to get more done in Gmail, Docs, and Keep As technology evolves, so does the way we get things done. That’s why we’re bringing Gemini Audio models to your favorite Workspace products to help you tackle daily tasks using just your voice. We first previewed Gemini Au

Months after receiving the markets regulator’s nod for its IPO, furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo has filed its red herring prospectus (RHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). As per the RHP, the startup plans to raise ₹150 Cr via a fresh issue

For two decades, the SSD-versus-HDD conversation ended the same way: flash wins on performance, disk wins on price per terabyte, and the size of that price gap settled the argument in favor of bulk storage. As storage technology has matured and AI has taken over, that framing is

It’s that time of year again, when we learn which lucky scientists are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free urinal; using mosquito proboscises to “necroprint” tiny nozzles; studying composition rates o

Elon Musk's super PAC is putting its first midterm money behind some of the GOP's most important election battlegrounds, spending more than $800,000 across seven Senate races and a handful of competitive House districts, according to a new Federal Election Commission disclosure.

Elon Musk's super PAC is putting its first midterm money behind some of the GOP's most important election battlegrounds, spending more than $800,000 across seven Senate races and a handful of competitive House districts, according to a new Federal Election Commission disclosure.

Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing from Qualcomm’s venture arm, as it looks beyond sleep and health tracking to build a ring that can run software on the device and eventually power

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is set to revise the rules governing its pre-open session from Monday, September 7, while keeping the overall session timings unchanged. The key changes include splitting the order-entry period into two phases and imposing restrictions on market

Japanese investment giant SoftBank has sold 8 crore shares of e-commerce platform Meesho for around Rs 1,650.4 crore through a block deal on Thursday on NSE. According to stock exchange data, SoftBank’s investment vehicle SVF II Meerkat (DE) LLC sold the shares at Rs 206.30 apiec

Google has once again avoided being broken up, despite a formal finding that it has operated an illegal monopoly. A federal judge agreed with prosecutors that Google had rigged the way its customers buy online ads but stopped short of forcing the company to sell the business. It

US economic data may still be humming along, but consumer companies like Nespresso say they’ve had to try harder to convince shoppers to pony up hundreds of dollars for coffee makers. “We really know about our consumers that they’re facing pressure and impact on their wallets as

Target’s back-to-school shopping experience is being powered, in part, by AI this year. The mass retailer found that customers who build wish lists drive about 45% higher demand in the category, the company told Retail Dive. The company’s using AI to help make the wish list proce

Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves beyond hardware and further up the AI stack. With the deal, which has been expected since The Information reported on it last week, Hugging Face

Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves beyond hardware and further up the AI stack. With the deal, which has been expected since The Information reported on it last week, Hugging Face

Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option. Both of the smart rings will feature an integrated NFC chip for contactless payments, vibrating alerts for alarms and reminders, and more. The Ring 3 Pro fe

Episode details Available for over a year Today, we discuss the economic challenges Andy Burnham is facing ahead of his first budget. The economic backdrop has left the prime minister and his Chancellor John Healey with big decisions to make about defence spending, as pressure in

Indian stock market investors will be back in action on Friday, September 04, as the BSE and NSE will remain open for regular trading despite the observance of Krishna Janmashtami. Krishna Janmashtami, also called Gokulashtami, is one of the important festivals as per the Hindu c