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As India’s physical AI ambitions remain heavily tied to imported robotics hardware, US-based Avathon is taking a different route. It is building the intelligence layer that controls physical systems, while using India’s engineering talent and academic institutions to develop the

Micron's Taiwan union will launch a one-day strike this week, threatening memory production — workers demand concrete terms for 2026 bonus and clearer profit-sharing arrangements The strike will take place at the company's Taoyuan facility. Micron faces a one-day labor stoppage a

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At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is showcasing its full lineup of local AI hardware. RTX Spark, which launched last week, powers personal agents on Windows PCs; DGX Spark supports developers building and scaling applications on Linux; and DGX Station serves enterprise teams running frontier

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Vectorial, an AI startup building human behaviour simulation tools for product development, has raised $3 million in a funding round led by SenseAI Ventures. Other participants include Smilegate, Berkeley SkyDeck, Berkeley AI Research Lab, Dent Capital, Motus Ventures, SUM Ventur

Vedanta shares are in focus after its subsidiary Hindustan Zinc reported a sharp jump in second-quarter profit and beat Street estimates, prompting brokerage Emkay Global Financial Services to maintain its bullish stance on the mining major. Analyst at Emkay Global have reiterate

General availability of the instances is coming next month, with planned expansion of availability to Europe — bringing an integrated platform for training, inference and large-scale reinforcement learning to cloud customers. A5X instances bring together NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72,

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

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged data center companies to "MAKE DEALS" with local communities to ensure their support for the costly facilities. Trump said that to make them more popular, data center operators should pay the community, "and/or individuals within the

Eternal is preparing to launch Dark.ai, an artificial intelligence platform focused on privacy and encrypted conversations. The platform is expected to launch globally this year, according to details shared about the initiative. Dark.ai aims to address concerns around data privac

Demand from AI-natives is pulling the European AI cloud ecosystem forward faster than ever. Developers need compute closer to their data, open models they can customize and serve at scale, and full-stack infrastructure that is secure by design. NVIDIA Cloud Partners across Europe

To increase productivity, accelerate innovation and create new opportunities for economic growth, Europe’s industrial leaders are tapping NVIDIA CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries, as well as NVIDIA Cosmos and Nemotron open models, across the engineering and manufacturing lifecycle.

NVIDIA cuDSS, launched today in general availability, is an NVIDIA CUDA-X library that shifts a critical part of engineering and scientific simulations onto GPUs. Complex engineering feats — from advanced chips to aircraft to industrial systems —– depend on simulation to predict

NVIDIA builds tools to enable safe agents across the stack. The NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, announced today, is part of NVIDIA’s growing portfolio of technologies that enables organizations to safely deploy agents at scale. NVIDIA Confidential Computing is the infras

HPE says it will run the first supercomputer benchmarks on the Moon — GPU-powered fanless Spaceborne Computer-4 is slated to ride a rover to the lunar south pole to test AI and HPC benchmarks NASA will test coordination of three AI models trained on Earth, ISS, and lunar data. A

Wednesday 21 October 2026 Top stories today: - Anthropic H1 revenue surged to $16.3B, net loss hit $80.7B - SpaceX +8% after hours as Elon Musk signals potential Tesla merger - Netflix Q3 revenue +12% YoY to $12.87B, net income +44% - OpenAI acquires drug development AI startup O

Zomato and Blinkit parent Eternal has unveiled Dark, a privacy-focused AI platform that founder Deepinder Goyal hopes to launch globally within 2026. In Eternal’s Q2 FY27 shareholder letter, Goyal said the platform is aimed at power users, including founders, researchers, scienti

Shares of SpaceX jumped 9% to $161 in early premarket trade on Wednesday, October 21, after Elon Musk’s space and satellite venture reported its first quarterly profit since going public in June, driven by strong growth in its artificial intelligence (AI) business. SpaceX’s reven

Foodtech and quick commerce platform Eternal (formerly Zomato) reported its Q2 FY27 results on Wednesday, with profit up nearly 93% year-on-year to Rs 125 crore. The Gurugram-based company also saw Blinkit’s revenue almost double during the quarter Eternal’s revenue from operatio

Vultr, the cloud infrastructure company, has announced it will deploy a 20MW cluster of AMD MI355X GPUs in Chennai. This will be India’s largest AMD Instinct GPU deployment, and one of the world’s largest, alongside Vultr’s supercluster in Springfield, Ohio, in the US. “Enterpris

Community management startup Mygate and adtech startup AdOnMo are set to merge, the startups said in a joint statement today. The statement came after Eternal's board approved a deal to transfer its entire shareholding in the digital advertising platform to Mygate, as part of a p

Agents are only as useful as what they know, and only as trustworthy as the boundaries they run within. Leading enterprises are using the open source NVIDIA Agent Toolkit — now expanded with new tools — to customize and control agents, use company data to inform their answers and

Infosys Q2 results 2026 schedule: Shares of IT heavyweight, Infosys Limited, surged during Wednesday’s trading session ahead of the announcement for second quarter results for the financial year 2026-27 later this week. The recent rally in the IT stock is also driven by a strong

Eternal, the parent company of Blinkit and Zomato, reported a consolidated net profit of ₹125 Cr for the second quarter of FY27, up 92% YoY from ₹65 Cr in the previous year quarter. On a sequential basis, profit surged 36% from ₹92 Cr in Q1 FY27. Operating revenue for the quarter

Nvidia in Talks to Back Firmus After IPO Flop, Report Says Nvidia Corp. is in discussions to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus Grid Ltd. after the Australian AI cloud company abandoned an initial public offering, the Information reported. The move signals that Nvid

Shares of the company were up 5% in morning trading, with Morgan Stanley naming Amazon a "top pick". TorchNeuron lets developers run code written in a language called PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium AI chips with a single configuration change and no rewriting needed, according to Am

NVIDIA is expanding its family of open models across language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing, giving developers, researchers and enterprises what they need to build applications tailored to local languages and industries The portfolio includes the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3

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Four workers killed after fall at TSMC’s 2nm fab construction site — accident marks at least nine construction deaths since 2024, broken bolt on a steel connection plate suspected as cause behind tragic accident (updated) Four contract workers fell with steel parts during Phase 4

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Jensen Huang Nvidia GTC keynote disrupted by Greenpeace protest over chips in Russian drones — 'What are you doing about that?' heckler demands before being thrown out "What are you doing about the environmental destruction?" Protesters disrupted Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC keynote

Founded in a tent near the Berlin Wall in 1980, the Tempodrom moved several times before settling near Anhalter Bahnhof in 2001. Its permanent home has since hosted concerts, galas and political events. Today, it hosts a different kind of spectacle. GTC Berlin runs three days, wi

Clément Delangue, Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, has criticised Netflix’s documentary on the cyberattack involving OpenAI’s AI agents, accusing the filmmakers of exaggerating the risks of artificial intelligence while overlooking failures in security controls, monitoring and

Forward deployed AI company AuxoAI has raised $20.7 million in a Series A funding round led by NTTVC, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm backed by Japanese technology conglomerate NTT. The round also saw participation from George Still Jr., Amit Zavery and Giacomo Sonnin

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

Apple’s growing popularity in India, fuelled by rising demand for iPhones and other premium devices, helped the company cross the Rs 1 lakh crore revenue mark for the first time in FY26. Its net profit also surged 66% year-on-year to Rs 5,311 crore during the fiscal year. Apple I