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NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required TL;DR NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that makes predictions directly on enterprise databases. Given a predictive query, it gathers historic

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim. Soon after unpermi

LTM, IRFC, Modison, Tech Mahindra, and Azad India Mobility are likely to attract investors’ attention on Thursday, October 22, as shareholders track upcoming dividend payouts and stock split, and key record dates. LTM, Modison, and Tech Mahindra have announced interim dividends,

'Targeted' attack on much-loved MP leaves Australian town heartbroken - Published Wangaratta has been thrust into an unwelcome spotlight this week. Residents in this rural Victorian town are used to catering to tourists passing through on their way to regional wineries, or music

NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin announcements today span containerized Vera Rubin infrastructure, a 2.5x expansion of its substrate supply, and software for AI factory power management and agent security, along with telecom, autonomous vehicle, robotics, and healthcare programs. The headline

Smart TVs running operating systems from Samsung, Vizio, and Roku continue sending data to automatic content recognition (ACR) endpoints after users opt out of tracking in the devices’ settings, according to research published on Monday. The paper from Northeastern University res

Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2026 The Linux Foundation | 21 October 2026 Welcome to the October 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter Cybersecurity Awareness Month is ending, and LF Education is discounting training for a limited time. You can save 40% on eligib

General Motors is adding a personal AI assistant to OnStar as part of a broader makeover of the subscription-based connected car service that the U.S. automaker launched 30 years ago. The OnStar AI Assistant will debut in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq EV in the coming months, with more

The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued by the PHP Foundation. PHP is a server-side programming language so widely used for web applications that it powers roughly 70%

Listen to this article in summarized format The move came as recent swings in AI stocks continued to influence the bond market. Concerns over the heavy spending needed to build AI infrastructure have raised questions about how higher interest rates could affect companies such as

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications Models specialized for a domain or a task by fine-tuning general open-source models, such as Qwen and Gemma, inherit a vocabulary built for many domains and general applications. In an essa

Listen to this post: Stratechery is, starting from today, presented by Stripe. The Unified Content Business Model Readers have, over the years, pointed out the paradox of my belief in and advocacy for advertising-based business models being delivered in a format bereft of adverti

Listen to this post: Stratechery is, starting from today, presented by Stripe. The Unified Content Business Model Readers have, over the years, pointed out the paradox of my belief in and advocacy for advertising-based business models being delivered in a format bereft of adverti

The company informed the stock exchanges on Wednesday that its special committee of the board approved the opening of the issue, the floor price and the preliminary placement document. The floor price was set at Rs 5,550 per equity share, under SEBI's pricing formula. The company

IT mid-cap vs large-caps: The Indian IT stocks are experiencing a strong comeback after seeing sharp decline over the past few months. Nifty IT ended nearly 2.88% higher on Wednesday, extending its gains after posting its biggest weekly rise in 18 years last week.While IT large-c

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Ukraine launched massive drone assaults against Russia this week, hitting key oil infrastructure and signaling Kyiv intends to block the Kremlin from increasing diesel exports in defiance of President Donald Trump. More than 1,000 Ukrainian drones targeted Russia on Sunday alone

Meta to Pay Historic $25 Billion in New Mexico Deception Case Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay the state of New Mexico a $25 billion civil penalty Wednesday, one of the largest verdicts in US legal history in a case spurred by the decade-old Cambri

Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion. In announcing the round, Blacksmith co-founder and CE

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When a hurricane looms, panic buying clears store shelves of household essentials like water, canned food, dry goods, and toilet paper. A similar dynamic is playing out in the market. Investors are bailing on higher-volatility growth stocks and running toward the shelter of perce

Data-center companies are ponying up to find out which communities will resist them the least. Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project. CEO

Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule - Published Just Eat has apologised after it was ridiculed online over a series of mistakes with AI-generated pictures for some of its restaurants' food items. The online food delivery platform had been testing

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Waymo is now shuttling customers to and from the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, with pickups and drop-offs happening at dedicated “autonomous vehicle zones” at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, the company announced Wednesday. This is the sixth major airport that Waymo i

Before we start: I’m very excited to announce an The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged live event: with Diogo Almedia (the creator of Jev) and Bryan Cantrill (cofounder and CTO, Oxide). 4 November (Wednesday), San Francisco, the SFJAZZ Center. It’s free to attend, but spaces are limit

Intel has hit a milestone in the construction of its massive chip fabrication plant in New Albany, Ohio, that's running at least five years behind schedule, a delay that's coincided with soaring demand for advanced chips. On Wednesday, Intel announced that crews have installed th

Intel has hit a milestone in the construction of its massive chip fabrication plant in New Albany, Ohio, that's running at least five years behind schedule, a delay that's coincided with soaring demand for advanced chips. On Wednesday, Intel announced that crews have installed th

A private key meant to vouch for the security of websites around the world turned out to be the number 4. That was one of the weaknesses researchers found in eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates issued by Bengaluru-based eMudhra. The discovery prompted Googl

David’s view If Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Senate race next month, the Saturday clip of him admonishing a GOP activist about freedom of religion will achieve legendary status in his party. “It’s you who need to understand the Constitution, not me,” El-Sayed told Thomas Teepel

The Satya Nadella I interviewed last week for Future Proof at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., was a very different version of the CEO I saw there in 2023, who wanted to make Google “dance.” Back then, generative AI was the exciting (and scary) new thing, and without M

In its current iteration, SpaceX is largely a data company seeking to provide enormous amounts of compute for artificial intelligence. During an earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, company officials spent much of their time discussing ambitious plans to roll out up to 10 GW of co

What difference will the Jackdaw gas field make? The UK government says the approval of the Jackdaw gas field will mean heat for millions of homes, and help finance the transition to clean energy. BBC Business editor Simon Jack explains how the project will work, and the impact i

PC Jeweller released its financial results for the July–September quarter (Q2FY27) today, October 21, after-market hours, reporting strong growth across key financial metrics, driven by healthy consumer demand. The company posted a 58% jump in net profit to ₹331 crore from ₹210 c

Dive Brief: - Amazon aims to hire over 300,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time roles across its U.S. operations for the holiday season, according to a Tuesday announcement. - That number is a 20% increase from the 250,000 holiday workers the company has hired seasonally since 2

Dive Brief: - In preliminary figures for the third quarter, Adidas notched a record 7.3 billion euros ($8.1 billion as of press time) in revenue, representing 9% growth year over year. - The company also brought in its highest quarterly operating income on record, reaching 1 bill

A big rally in SpaceX after earnings is giving hope to Meta and Tesla bulls ahead of their reports due Wednesday afternoon. Options trading in both stocks leaned bullish after the open Wednesday, with Meta options looking particularly one-sided as traders bought more calls than p

A bit earlier today, NVIDIA kicked off its 2026 GTC Berlin trade show with the event’s lead keynote. Headlined, as always, by CEO Jensen Huang, the GTC Berlin keynote has in recent years become one of NVIDIA’s most important secondary keynotes, as it is the company’s principal tr

NEW YORK — Target is welcoming holiday shoppers into the Academy of Giftology for a holiday campaign debuting in early November. The holidays are a key moment for retailers and Target is trying to keep up momentum for a turnaround plan that is starting to produce results. Its lat

As developers, we are constantly exploring how software intersects with evolving digital frontiers like virtual reality (VR) and immersive ecosystems. Recently, I’ve been diving into KursarScript Programming Language (KSPL)—a specialized programming language designed specifically

21st October 2026 - Link Blog Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile (via) Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an