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Apollo Capital Management and several banks are in discussions with SpaceX to help facilitate the company's purchase of $40 billion worth of Nvidia graphics processing units, according to a person familiar with the talks who asked not to be named to discuss the matter. The deal w

Apollo Capital Management and several banks are in discussions with SpaceX to help facilitate the company's purchase of $40 billion worth of Nvidia graphics processing units, according to a person familiar with the talks who asked not to be named to discuss the matter. The deal w

Do you need a mouse with an 8K polling rate? Hint: You don't. For years, the standard polling rate for gaming peripherals — mice, keyboards, etc. — has been 1,000 Hz, which equates to a delay, or latency, of 1 millisecond. This is significantly higher than the standard polling ra

The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second 2.5GbE port, and a cooling stack of two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan, and three heat pipes. Our review unit pairs the Intel Core

Get a great deal on the original MSI Claw during Best Buy clearance sale — handheld with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and 1TB SSD is just $562, $187 off list price Gaming handhelds are expensive, but the price on the MSI Claw A1M is reasonable during Best Buy's clearance sale. The ori

Rahm to leave LIV Golf over 'unacceptable' terms - Published Jon Rahm will leave LIV Golf after deeming the proposed terms for LIV 2.0 "unacceptable", his lawyer has told a bankruptcy court hearing. The league, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States

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The level where an LLM system stops being a demo and earns the right to touch real data and real decisions: layered guardrails that fail closed, PII handled at the boundary, an immutable audit trail, and scoped memory. By the time an LLM system is making decisions that matter, “i

Nous Research, the startup developing the open source Hermes Agent, has raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. The round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from other backers including Nvidia, Union Square

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

Dive Brief: - Lululemon CEO Heidi O’Neill is overhauling the athletics retailer’s C-suite, about a month after joining the retailer. - Athleta CEO Maggie Gauger is joining Lululemon as chief product officer, while Walmart Canada Chief Growth Officer Joseph Godsey is taking on the

The most important number an agent produces isn’t its answer — it’s how sure it is. Compose that number from independent signals, check it’s calibrated, grade the high-stakes calls with a second model, and route the rest to humans well. This is Level 3 of a six-level maturity mod

(Subscribe to Brian Sullivan's "Power Insider" newsletter here.) A supertanker was recently chartered to sail from the U.S. Gulf Coast to China for $76 million, a source familiar told CNBC, as shipping costs soar globally due to the crisis in the Middle East. The Alexandros was c

If you can deploy a prompt change without an eval failing the build, you don’t have evals — you have a notebook. And once the gate is green, the slow leaks are still coming for you. Here’s the gate, the baseline, and the shadow-eval loop that catch both. This is Level 2 of the ma

Deep clean your PC in seconds with cordless duster deals from $19 — save hundreds on canned air with unlimited high-RPM dusting power While compressed air is affordable, it becomes less practical if you clean your system frequently. You could unknowingly spend hundreds of dollars

Israelis mourn 7 October attack victims three years after deadly Hamas raid - Published Memorial events have taken place in Israel on the third anniversary of the devastating Hamas-led attack there that sparked the war in Gaza. Families paid tribute to their loved ones at some of

Microsoft said its new laptop containing an Nvidia AI chip will start at $2,599, as the software maker tries to bring more artificial intelligence capabilities to its consumer devices. The Surface Laptop Ultra is now available on preorder and will begin shipping on Oct. 16, Pavan

Microsoft said its new laptop containing an Nvidia AI chip will start at $2,599, as the software maker tries to bring more artificial intelligence capabilities to its consumer devices. The Surface Laptop Ultra is now available on preorder and will begin shipping on Oct. 16, Pavan

SpaceX is lending more support to the bull case on Nvidia, according to Jim Cramer. The Elon Musk-led rocket and AI company is looking to raise $40 billion to buy more Nvidia chips. In a story first reported by the Financial Times and later confirmed by CNBC, Apollo Global Manage

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

Dell has announced the first XPS laptop built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip, the XPS 16 Creator Edition, alongside a compact Dell Creator Edition Desktop on the same silicon and a Windows version of its GB300 deskside AI workstation, which is now called Dell Pro Precision with

Back in June, Nvidia announced that it had secured agreements with Microsoft and a host of other PC makers to develop AI- and agent-ready PCs for Windows based on its RTX Spark chip, but details on the machines were scant at the time. On Wednesday, at an event held in San Francis

The trick to putting LLM agents in high-stakes systems isn’t a smarter model — it’s containing the model to one node so the rest of the system is ordinary, testable code. Here are the structural moves, with the contracts and types to implement them. Demos love autonomous agents t

Guardiola set to attend Man City v PSG next week - Published Pep Guardiola is expected to attend Manchester City's Champions League tie against Paris St-Germain next week - the club's first home match since they were found guilty of the majority of the 115 charges brought against

All three major US stock indexes were modestly lower, with the S&P 500 and the Dow poised to snap their four-day winning streaks. The Nasdaq was on track for its first down day in six. The small-cap Russell 2000 underperformed its larger cap counterparts. In the wake of Tuesday's

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U.S. Treasury yields came off their highs after a solid sale of 10-year notes. Earlier, the 10-year yield rose to its highest level in more than two decades. The 10-year Treasury last traded more than 1 basis point higher at 5.286%. Earlier in the session, it reached 5.35%, its h

The first session with a coding agent is crisp: it reads the code, makes a clean change, writes a test. By the thirtieth, something has rotted — it re-discovers the same files, contradicts a decision it made three weeks ago, guesses the test command, and quietly stops writing tes

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it will vote on a proposal to auction 25 megahertz of "prime spectrum" to support "direct-to-device" services from satellites to smart phones. The FCC, in a press release, also said it would vote Oct. 29 on taking public commen

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it will vote on a proposal to auction 25 megahertz of "prime spectrum" to support "direct-to-device" services from satellites to smart phones. The FCC, in a press release, also said it would vote Oct. 29 on taking public commen

Implementing a Modular Master-Agent Telemetry & Diagnostic Framework in Python: Prime-Sentinel Command (PSC) Tags: python architecture oop design-patterns distributed-systems When engineering distributed monitoring agents or designing low-latency health-checking pipelines, separa

* US 30-year Treasury yield hits 24-year high * Fed minutes reveal division over rate hike rationale * SpaceX falls after reports of $40 billion financing push * Philadelphia chip index falls more than 2% (Updates to market close) By Stephen Culp and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi NEW YORK,

Pennsylvania’s explosive measles outbreak is now the largest the US has seen since the highly infectious virus was declared eliminated in 2000. With well over 1,000 cases, it’s the largest on record since 1991. Pennsylvania’s health officials reported 1,078 measles cases in all o

Watch: What we know about Christa Pike's ‘shock’ recovery in hospital Christa Pike is "conscious and speaking" and expected to make a recovery, nearly a week after her failed execution, her attorneys have said. They added that at this time, Pike's future remains uncertain. In cou

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

TP-Link is facing more legal troubles in the US as Florida and three other states filed lawsuits alleging that it lied to consumers about its connections to China and the risks of its routers being exploited by Chinese state hackers. The lawsuits were filed yesterday, about six m