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AMD and Intel will work together to create a single PyTorch code path for AI inference on CPUs — x86 rivals fold AMD ZenDNN library into Intel oneDNN to make CPU AI simpler AMD has also joined the UXL Foundation as a steering member. Intel and AMD are integrating their CPU optimi

We’ve written about how reinforcement learning (RL) is an infrastructure problem, and how the last five years of work we’ve done provides performant, available, and scalable infrastructure you can rely on to train your models. Even without the concerns of infrastructure, RL is st

Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Gemini, Google Cloud Google Cloud has always been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and market-leading price-performance. Key to the f

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

How much gas could Jackdaw provide? And will it cut your energy bills? - Published The government has approved drilling at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. The decision - which comes after years of debate and legal challenges - will pave the way for gas to be extracted fro

Microsoft has called for the deployment of AI security agents to monitor and control other AI agents operating within enterprises, warning that autonomous systems can pose insider threats even when they have not been compromised. In a blog post, Hayete Gallot, Executive Vice Pres

Iran threatens to attack undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz, calls them 'legitimate new targets' in future conflict — IRGC spokesman warns that a future 'third phase' in war with US could lead them to sever global data links Trouble continues in the Strait of Hormuz The Isla

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharmaceutical companies coordinate drug development programmes, as the company expands its AI tools for life sciences research. OpenAI has not disclosed the acquisition terms. The acquisition will bring Orchestra Bio’s

Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading Chinese factories to produce advanced RAM chips as AI data center competition ramps up — big players move to fight off the threat from CXMT and co. As Chinese rivals look to get in on the lucrative market, two chip giants are taking action to st

Shares of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (USFB) ended lower on Wednesday, October 21. Despite the decline, the stock has surged 22.75% in one year. The Bengaluru-headquartered small finance reported stronger than expected performance in the first half of the financial year 2026-27. T

In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin was up 2.1% and Ethereum was up 2.7%. Among the major altcoins, BNB, XRP, Solana,, Hyperliquid, Dogecoin and Cardano gained upto 4% whereas Tron was down 0.3%. Riya Sehgal, Research Analyst, Delta Exchange said the bounce came alongside stronger U.S.

The News Global aid groups, including the UN, are facing demands to inform the Congolese government of the whereabouts of more than $700 million that was donated to deal with the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,600 people in the country. Last week, Jean Kaseya, who hea

The News Middle East energy executives are more optimistic about their industry’s future than their peers elsewhere, a testament to their ability to keep oil flowing despite the disruption to the Strait of Hormuz, according to research commissioned by the organizers of ADIPEC, th

San Francisco-based enterprise AI startup AuxoAI has raised $20.7 Mn (over ₹195 Cr) in a Series A funding round led by NTTVC, a Silicon Valley VC firm backed by Japanese telco NTT. Industry executives including Norwest Venture Partners’ George Still Jr, ServiceNow CPO and COO Ami

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank, and Parse: Advancing Agents with World-Class Retrieval Models An agent’s answers depend on the evidence it can retrieve. When that evidence is incomplete or irrelevant, the agent will repeat searches and inspect additional documents, consuming m

South Africa’s ambassador to the US says Washington has repeatedly rejected Pretoria’s trade offers without explaining what it wants instead. His complaint comes a day after President Cyril Ramaphosa told South Africans to brace for losing duty-free access under the African Growt

For India's D2C brands, quick commerce has opened up another route to millions of consumers. But turning that access into profitable growth remains a challenge. Platform commissions, advertising expenses, inventory requirements and frequent discounting can quickly erode the margi

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

Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era Mark Lohmeyer VP & GM, AI & Computing Infrastructure Ankur Mehrotra VP/GM, Distributed & Sovereign Cloud, Google Cloud As enterprises transition to continuous, multi-step agent

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

Hardware-backed security at global scale: Confidential G4 with NVIDIA Blackwell is GA Meghna Sreenivasan Product Manager, Confidential Computing Sam Lugani Product Lead, Confidential Computing Bringing autonomous agents into production means processing sensitive data and valuable

HPE announced updates to HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, and most of the changes land in HPE Private Cloud AI. Developers, independent software vendors, and AI agents get governed access to the platform’s inference, models, and pipelines through production

Why you don't need an audiophile headset for gaming — comfort, convenience, and a good mic win over pure audio fidelity Audiophile headsets are all about audio fidelity — but that's not really what most gamers are looking for. "Best gaming headset for audiophiles" is one of the c

The broader markets bore the brunt of the sell-off, with the Nifty Smallcap 100 plunging 2.37% and the Nifty Midcap 100 falling 1.58%, significantly underperforming the benchmark indices. Sectoral performance remained mixed, with information technology emerging as the sole major

Jio IPO vs Reliance shares: Amid a strong response from primary market investors to the Jio Platforms IPO, shares of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) saw strong buying interest on Wednesday. Reliance shares finished more than 0.50% higher at ₹1,209, while the Jio Platforms IPO was f

South Korea’s data centre firm Elice saw its shares jump 30% in Wednesday’s trade on October 21, to 79,900 won, rebounding from a slump during its market debut on Tuesday. The recovery has offered some relief to retail investors, who were the biggest participants in Elice’s IPO.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop procuring products and services from Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek and to remove it from government information technology systems. The order applies to civilian executiv

A promise of quick profits can turn into an expensive lesson for stock market investors. Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath has warned investors against blindly following stock tips circulating on WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and social media, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) repo

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Eternal, formerly Zomato, will acquire an approximately 4.4% stake in Mygate on a fully diluted basis through a share swap involving its entire holding in Adonmo, according to a regulatory filing dated October 21. The stake in the merged Mygate entity is currently valued at Rs 15

The new fund offer (NFO) opened on October 12, 2026, and will close on October 26, 2026. Investors can subscribe to the NFO with a minimum investment of Rs 1,000 and in multiples of Rs 1,000 thereafter. The BSE Top 10 Banks Index comprises the largest banks in the BSE 500, select

Morgan Chittum here. More bad news in the IPO market this week. On Monday, Chinese manufacturer Kepuni Holdings withdrew plans for a Nasdaq listing that had been expected to raise $15 million. A day later, Gravitics Holdings slashed its deal size by a whopping 60% ahead of the sp

Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks closed lower on Wednesday as rising crude oil prices weighed on investor sentiment, offsetting the positive momentum from the strong investor response to Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms IPO. The Nifty 50 decl

Efforts to cap global temperature rises have largely failed and a breach of the Paris Agreement’s limit of 1.5℃ is now “inevitable,” the UN said. Overall global warming is now likely to be between 2.6℃ and 2.8℃ by the end of the century, the UN Environment Programme predicted. It

Carrie White, the telekinetic prom queen from hell, is one of the most beloved horror icons in popular culture. First introduced in Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie, the character was immortalized in director Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation, widely regarded as one of the best h

US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, though officials in Moscow poured cold water on any imminent agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Witkoff’s visit follows what a US official called “constructive” meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr

South Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their production facilities in China to make more advanced memory chips to meet the Asian giant’s growing appetite. Chinese tech giants Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have also placed orders totalling $35 billion

Anthropic reportedly plans to spend $750 billion on adding compute capacity in the coming years, including hundreds of billions in non-cancelable deals, as AI labs race to finance a huge infrastructure buildout. The figures, cited in a prospectus obtained by The Wall Street Journ

OpenAI said its agents disabled parts of an internal misbehavior monitoring system, intensifying worries of AI acting in malign ways. The latest incidents, which follow a slew of reports of agents unexpectedly breaking out of sandboxes, showcased how even the safeguards built to

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

Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a large, 120-billion-parameter model geared for agents used by the enterprise. While it uses fewer parameters than the Nemotron 3 Ultra model, Nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank, and Parse: Advancing Agents with World-Class Retrieval Models An agent’s answers depend on the evidence it can retrieve. When that evidence is incomplete or irrelevant, the agent will repeat searches and inspect additional documents, consuming m

It’s October in the Midwest, which means it’s time for the pinball world to descend on a convention center in Chicagoland for the annual Pinball Expo. Once thought to be an entertainment sector slowly bleeding out, pinball has come back in a big way in recent years. I visited one

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