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John Paul Macri was a healthy, happy 8-year-old when early last year he began to trip. At first, his parents thought he was just clumsy. But after he started walking with a head tilt, they knew something was wrong. "He was like `Mommy, when my head is straight, everything is doub

Often it doesn't feel like good news when a U.S. economic indicator matches a level last seen in 2007. But 10-year Treasury notes offering the highest yield since that year could be good news for investors looking to buy bonds. Elevated inflation, especially higher oil prices, co

NetApp buying Peak:AIO to give ONTAP Parallel NFS injection NetApp is acquiring Peak:AIO with its AI-focussed parallel NFS system software and metadata architecture. Manchester, UK-based Peak:AIO is a software-defined all-flash storage company that was founded in 2021 by Chief St

China puts AI compute into orbit with Supercomputing-1 satellite — onboard processing aims to cut Earth-observation data processing from hours to minutes But it's a far cry from an orbital data center. China has launched nine satellites — including its first integrated “rocket an

Artificial Intelligence Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput When you post-train a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) at scale,

British climber dies after falling 60m on Spanish mountainside - Published A 28-year-old British climber has died after falling about 60m (200ft) from one of the highest mountains in northern Spain. The man fell into a gully while descending from the summit of Torrecerredo in the

Textile manufacturer and exporter Kian-M Export Ltd has filed its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on September 25, 2026, to raise funds through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The proposed IPO is a combination of a fres

Artificial Intelligence Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training is becoming a standard step in building capable language model agents. Models learn to reason and act across sequences of steps by generatin

Muse’s traction is surging, fueled by Meta’s promotion of the AI app at its annual Meta Connect developer conference this week and strong early reviews that praised its polished design and highly capable AI model under the hood. At the start of the week, Muse had surpassed 2.5 mi

Artificial Intelligence NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock Executives need to make data-driven decisions during live business reviews, where accuracy and speed matter. A conversational agentic AI assistant can meet this need by answering data ques

Artificial Intelligence Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI With voice cloning, you can generate new speech in a target speaker’s voice from a short reference recording, without retraining a model. You can now deploy the publicly availabl

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Snorkel AI, a startup that helps AI labs and corporations build training datasets and simulated environments, has raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation. The new round, which was led by Insight Partners and S32, valued the seven-year-old startup at nearly trip

Sir David Beckham nets £38.5m after World Cup ad deals - Published Sir David Beckham has netted a £38.5m payout from his sports, fashion, and media business after the 2026 Men's Football World Cup helped it bring in record profits. The former England star's DRJB Holdings, which i

Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1 Ankit Sud Senior Product Manager, Google Jacob Murphy Software Engineer, Google At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcin

Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL) Jiaqi Pan Senior Software Engineer, Google Kunal Jha Senior Product Manager, Google Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training cluste

Storage Intelligence advisor: Know what changed in your storage estate and act on it Salim Hafid Product Manager Himanshu Kohli Product Manager The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale do

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes late

Neighborhood Intelligence — formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. — is exploring alternatives to its deal with real estate platform Fathom Holdings, which was originally announced in June. The new deal would leverage “substantially all” of Neighborhood Intelligence’s digital a

Artificial Intelligence How Datacor built self-service rental analytics with Amazon Quick Sight This post was written with contributions from Datacor’s TrackAbout engineering and product teams. For gas and welding distributors, rental billing on assets such as cylinders and bulk

Palmer misses too many opportunities to play for England - Tuchel - Published Cole Palmer "misses too many opportunities" to play for England after the Chelsea forward pulled out of the latest squad, says manager Thomas Tuchel. The withdrawal of Palmer came as a surprise as he ha

Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them. Kiteworks (formerly Accellion), which makes tools for transferring large files and sensitive datasets over the internet, confi

Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it’s trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sou

Microsoft is shifting its strategy for its Copilot AI platform as the software giant keeps looking for momentum in enterprise AI, where Anthropic has been gaining traction. On Friday, Microsoft introduced an updated Copilot app that can both code and handle complex productivity t

Microsoft is shifting its strategy for its Copilot AI platform as the software giant keeps looking for momentum in enterprise AI, where Anthropic has been gaining traction. On Friday, Microsoft introduced an updated Copilot app that can both code and handle complex productivity t

Artificial Intelligence Multi-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo With Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo, you can place training compute in one AWS Region and keep your dataset in another. Training large AI models requires massive GPU capacity, but your i

With little help from frontier labs, independent researchers are piecing together how AI agents coordinate in internet backwaters to access private data hosted on secure servers. Transluce, a nonprofit lab focused on AI oversight, released a report Wednesday that shows agents fro

Target’s latest slate of store openings includes a location in the Hamptons, specifically Bridgehampton, New York, that does not highlight the company’s signature red color. Instead, the location will align with the town’s guidelines “to reflect its coastal vibes,” the company sa

Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public. According to The Information, the company is asking shareholders to approve a structure “in the coming days” that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation — firm is building 1.2-gigawatt power plant to bring systems fully online That's a lot of GPUs. The end goal is finally in sight for Elon Musk, nearly two years after he an

In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogu

Imagine starting a space company in October 2019 with the aim of changing the world. Then, a few months later, a global pandemic shuts the world down. “Little did we know what the world had in store for us,” said Trevor Bennett, an engineer who co-founded Starfish Space after a f

The offer size is pegged at Rs 1,062.8 crore, while the floor price has been set at Rs 1,250 per share, the reports said. The offer may come at a discount of up to 10% to the current market price (CMP). According to shareholding data available on the BSE, Augment India Holdings L

Shares of Microsoft popped 4% on Friday, 25 September, reaching $517.48 on Nasdaq after the software giant unveiled its biggest Copilot overhaul, as the company seeks to transform its AI assistant into a one-stop shop for office workers. The rally gave a big boost to the S&P 500

A global boom in biofuels intended to ease expensive gasoline and diesel imports caused by the Middle East war could require an additional area the size of Germany to be converted for fuel production, new analysis by think-tank Chatham House found. As fuel prices soar, major econ