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Credit: AFP At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Google outlined the direction of its AI infrastructure, and DIGITIMES notes that the discussion extended well beyond its next-generation TPU... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have to en

Power is a defining constraint for AI factories. As AI workloads demand a full compute platform to serve them, each component of that platform must maximize output within the factory’s limited power budget. This makes performance per watt—rather than raw, unnormalized throughput—

For operators of large-scale AI factories, maximizing continuous output is essential for productivity. In massive-scale AI training, every GPU in the cluster must synchronize gradients across thousands of collective operations per second. Similarly, during inference, unplanned do

With 10-year treasury yields breaching the 5% market and reaching their highest level since 2007 on Tuesday, the market has been spooked, but bond investors are thinking more seriously about whether this may be an opportunistic moment in fixed-income. Many investors have focused

Letby failings go beyond one hospital - the whole system has been found lacking - Published The public inquiry into the Lucy Letby case may have reserved the strongest criticism for the Countess of Chester Hospital and its management, but there are big questions for the wider NHS

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NVIDIA has added CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source CUDA-Q platform, an orchestration layer for building applications that run on fault-tolerant quantum computers, and it arrives with two numbers that are interesting. Fermilab says the tool cut a fault-tolerant algorithm design cy

The Scoop The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute, the crucial power from data centers that’s driving the artificial intelligence boom. Commerce officials cited national security concerns when they tol

Trump criticises Supreme Court after justices block mail-in ballot restrictions - Published The US Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump's plan to restrict voting by mail before November's midterm elections, in a setback for the White House. The justices upheld a fede

AI - SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLinkIntel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack -

India’s ubiquitous UPI payment system is set for a significant change from October 15, with the introduction of a merchant discount rate (MDR) on select transactions. Under the new framework, merchants will be charged an MDR of 0.4% on person to merchant (P2M) UPI transactions ab

Listen to this article in summarized format The 10-year Treasury yield rose 4.7 basis points to 5.008% after reaching 5.041%, its highest since July 19, 2007. It was on track for its sixth gain in seven sessions. The 30-year Treasury yield also climbed 4.5 basis points to 5.373%

The Scene Chipotle is beefing up its board, in a bid to reassure investors and quell concerns about potential activist scrutiny. Sabir Sami, formerly KFC’s CEO, joins Chipotle’s board effective immediately, the company announced Monday evening. He brings much-needed dining and op

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Dive Brief: - On Oct. 11, Target is opening eight new locations in New York, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee, according to a press release. - These stores, which include one in the Hamptons, are the last of the 30 locations the company planned to open this year.

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has reportedly intensified its scrutiny of big tech giant Apple’s software warranty terms. This is part of the watchdog’s broader investigation into issues linked to the smartphone maker’s iOS 18 update, which allegedly damaged iPh

Other marquee investors in the anchor round included ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, Edelweiss Life Insurance Company, Societe Generale – ODI and ASAS Global Fund Incorporated VCC Sub Fund. Among equity-oriented schemes, Hero Motors allocated shares to ICICI Prudential S

Artificial Intelligence Optimizing cost and latency with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can reduce your input token costs by up to 90 percent when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models, based on Amazon Bedrock prompt caching pri

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Credit: DIGITIMES Of the 94 listed Taiwanese semiconductor companies DIGITIMES tracks, 80 grew year-over-year in August 2026 and 14 declined. Median year-over-year growth was 27%... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have to

Dive Brief: - Old Navy has consolidated its activewear assortment into a new subbrand, Old Navy Sport, Gap Inc. announced Tuesday. - The garments include “refreshed seasonal styles, updated colors and modern silhouettes,” and offer “performance and value,” the company said. Old

Artificial Intelligence Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization Retail catalogs rarely arrive as clean, structured attributes. Product names, descriptions, and category paths come from many sources and change continuously. S

FILE CTERA finds 95% of enterprise file data rarely used Cloud file system supplier CTERA commissioned research that found just 4.4 percent of enterprise file data is actively used. An analysis of 16 petabytes of live production data across 856 file-share scans in enterprise NAS

After using his social media site to blast Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's push for the AI industry to slow down development, President Donald Trump went a step further on Monday. With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking on stage at the All-in Summit in Los Angeles, Trump called the te

While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday morning in Los Angeles, he got a phone call that he couldn’t send to voicemail — it was from President Donald Trump. “I’m onstage with the besties,” Huang told Trump, referring to the venture capitalists who

Artificial Intelligence Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs Getting access to the right GPUs when you need them is one of the biggest challenges in training or customizing AI models at scale. During peak demand periods, your preferred GPU ma

AI - SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLinkIntel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack -

The News AI agents can easily team up to get around safety restrictions and escape the limits placed on them, a new study shows. Enterprise AI lab Emergence AI ran eight simulations testing the capabilities of global frontier models — including Claude and OpenAI, and Chinese mode

Scaling Telco Autonomy: Leveraging GNNs with Distributed GraphFlow Brian Naughton Senior Principal Architect, Telecommunications Mathieu Guillame-Bert Software Engineer The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from traditional manual human-

Best practices for handling cloud reliability incidents Flemming Christensen Product Manager & Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. Inequalities are still common, the climate is worsening, and we’re seemingly o

Agent Substrate brings high-density, scalable, trusted infrastructure to GKE Alex Zakonov VP Engineering Tim Hockin Engineer Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent

Introducing Filestore agent volumes: fully managed storage for agent workspaces Micah Waldman Group Product Manager Maya Gal Engineer Manager From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterpri

A slowdown on the AI frontier would barely register for big companies working to adopt AI, for the simple reason that they are nowhere near the frontier. “Even if the technology stops advancing — turn ‘pacing the frontier’ into ‘halt the frontier’ — we have a decade-plus of diffu

Dive Brief: - Target and Amazon’s dueling October sale events return next month, according to company press releases Tuesday. Both companies will promote deals from Oct. 6 to Oct. 7. - Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale for paid Prime members features discounts spanning fragrances from

The Sensex plunged nearly 1,433 points from its day's high to close at 74,004, while the Nifty 50 tumbled over 474 points from its day’s high to end the session at 23,119. The reversal marks a nearly 2% intraday drop for the benchmark indices. Also read | Tata Sons IPO buzz boost

After X threatened legal action last month, Nitter and XCancel, privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts, appear to be officially dead — for real this time. Nitter, an open source project that let people read X posts without logging in, had been used to power a number of ser

Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the company has been working with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, as first reported by Bloomberg. Lehane is reportedly in Washington to work with U.S. lawmakers addressing cata

Repeatedly untruthful, callous and quiet - what we learned about Lucy Letby from inquiry report - Published New details have emerged about Lucy Letby, the killer neonatal nurse whose name can evoke both staunch support and unequivocal disgust. Letby, now 36, is serving 15 whole-l

India’s AI story is moving beyond models, and the next quest is about how AI is being deployed, integrated into workflows, governed and navigated to deliver measurable value. Last month, Inc42 reported that enterprise LLM adoption in India is taking a vertical turn, with companie

President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the Supreme Court for blocking a new controversial U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots from being used for the upcoming midterm elections after critics warned it would make voting difficult for many people. "Republicans just got a

The News Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., sharply criticized the Trump administration’s handling of vaccines on Tuesday, warning that the current approach is out of step with the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” pledge and risks eroding confidence in immunization. At Semafo

Domestic markets remained under pressure, extending their recent correction as elevated crude oil prices and rising global bond yields weighed on sentiment. Investors stayed cautious ahead of key central bank meetings this week, with growing expectations of further policy tighten