Nvidia Bets $1B On US Science As AI Chip Dominance Funds Research Push
Nvidia pledged $1 billion over five years on Oct. 8 to advance US scientific research, extending its reach beyond chip sales into direct funding.
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The Research Firm That Spooked Wall Street On AI Now Says Crypto Finally Matters
Citrini Research, the firm whose AI scenario rattled stocks in February, now argues that AI agents have given crypto the purpose it spent 15 years looking for. Key Takeaways “Blockchains have finally found their raison d’être,” the firm said in a note published Thursday. Finance, it said, is slow, fragmented and gated by intermediaries and…
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Latin America’s Dollar-Earning Tech Workers Bet On AI Skills To Protect A 66% Pay Premium
AI Skills Become The Job Shield For Latin America’s Dollar-Paid Tech Workers
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Google Debuts Universal Gemini Agent: ‘A Single Agent For Work’
Google added a universal Gemini agent to Gemini Enterprise this week, letting workers run cross-app tasks from a single prompt.
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Nous Research Triples Valuation To $1.5B With $90M Open-Model Raise
Nous Research raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, deepening investor interest in open-weight AI models outside the big labs.
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OpenAI, TurbineOne Team Up On AI Tools Built To Work With No Network
OpenAI and TurbineOne announced a partnership Oct. 7 to build AI tools for frontline military users, extending OpenAI’s defense sector push.
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Google Launches Playground, Turns Text Prompts Into Playable Games: No Code Required
Google launched Playground on Oct. 7, an experimental tool that builds playable custom games from simple text prompts with no coding needed.
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Chef Robotics Moves Food-Prep Arms From Pilot Kitchens to Live Lines on Nvidia Isaac
Nvidia Isaac: Chef Robotics is scaling food-production automation using Nvidia’s Isaac platform for simulation, digital twins and motion planning across live deployments.
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Sovereign UK AI Behavox Locks $8M GPU Investment With Civo
sovereign UK AI: Behavox signed an $8 million GPU commitment with Civo to process AI workloads entirely within UK borders, using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform.
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Talks To Raise Investment At Higher Valuation After $600M Round
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise new funding at a higher valuation.
