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Nvidia, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) chips, will build seven new supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), CEO Jensen Huang said.In his keynote speech at the company’s GTC event in the US capital, Washington, DC, Huang said on Tuesday that the company’s AI chip bookings have reached $500 billion.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe first company to be valued at more than $4 trillion, Nvidia is at the heart of the global deployment of AI. While the company is forging deals around the world, it is also navigating the U.S.-China trade war, which could determine…
Euro 2025 hero Michel Agyemang was carried off on a stretcher during England’s 3-0 win over Australia at Pride Park.After an early red card for the visitors, the Lionesses controlled the flow of the match and were on their way to an easy victory, but Agyemang was sent off just minutes after coming on in the second half, and the match took a turn for the worse. The Brighton loanee was seen collapsing and crying as he went to retrieve the ball. The striker was treated by physiotherapists as he grabbed his knee and was eventually taken onto a stretcher…
Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society can be reconfigured to share the wealth created by AI technology. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the founder of Khosla Ventures suggested that the US government could take a 10% stake in every public company and redistribute that company’s wealth to the general public. The idea, Khosla said, was prompted by President Donald Trump’s decision for the US government to buy 10% of Intel’s shares. “When Trump bought 10% of Intel, I thought maybe that wasn’t a good idea,” Khosla said on stage at Disrupt. “You take…
Introverts often grow up feeling out of place. After all, we live in a noisy, fast-paced world. But while life may seem to revolve around extroverts, introverts’ contributions are just as important. I’m a brand and storytelling expert, author of Personal Branding for Introverts, and a speaker who has worked with large corporations and executives at companies like Lego, Adobe, and Microsoft. I’m an introvert myself, a fact that often surprises people. Much of the advice for introverts in the workplace says that you should pretend to be an extrovert to succeed, but that’s not the answer.Introverts possess a number…
The United States has canceled the visa of Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer and playwright who became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.Speaking at Kongi’s Harvest Gallery in Lagos on Tuesday, Soyinka read out a notice he recently received from the local US consulate asking him to arrive with his passport in order to invalidate his visa.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list“For physical cancellations, please bring your visa to the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. To schedule an appointment, please contact us via email and other information prior to the appointment,” Soyinka…
South Africa won their opening T20 cricket match against Pakistan by 55 runs despite the return of Babar Azam and amidst the tourist disaster.Babar Azam was dismissed for a duck in his return to T20 cricket as an underpowered South Africa defeated Pakistan by 55 runs in the opening match of the trifecta.Pakistan could not recover from Corbin Bosch’s twin strikes, including the wicket of Babar, as South Africa defeated the home team for 139 on Tuesday, much to the disappointment of 16,000 home fans at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listSouth Africa were 194-9…
The Trump administration has not delivered $9.7 million worth of contraceptives purchased by the United States to women overseas and is storing them in a warehouse in Belgium, but aid workers are raising concerns that the U.S. government is running out of time to expire them. CNN previously reported that contraceptives that were supposed to be donated to African countries after being procured by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Biden administration have not been delivered. They are now being stored indefinitely in a Belgian warehouse, as the United States has discontinued many of its foreign…
Reiss Nelson starred in his first start for Brentford as the Bees advanced to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals with a resounding 5-0 win, ending League Two Grimsby Town’s memorable run in the competition.Although the Bees led 3-0 at halftime, the first 20 minutes told a very different story. Grimsby had more than 60 per cent possession of the ball than any other Premier League side, with Charles Burnham and Evan Khouri both making saves at their near posts. A repeat of the win against Manchester United looked like a possibility. But after Grimsby gave away the ball easily on the…
Owen Sakawa, founder of Elloe AI, wants his platform to be the “immune system for AI” and the “antivirus for all AI agents.” The idea, Sakawa said in an interview a few days ago at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where Elloe AI was named a Top 20 finalist in the Startup Battlefield competition, is to add a layer to a company’s LLM that checks for bias, hallucinations, errors, compliance issues, misinformation, and unsafe output. “AI is evolving at such a rapid pace that there are no guardrails, no safety nets, no mechanisms to keep it from going off the rails,”…
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point at its meeting this week, and could do so at its next two meetings, according to a CNBC Fed poll from October.But 38 survey respondents, including economists, strategists and fund managers, voiced concerns about a lack of data on the government shutdown, an artificial intelligence bubble, still-high inflation and whether politics are playing a role in the Fed’s decisions.”Flying blindfolded into a snowstorm with no backup instruments is not the best situation for monetary policy,” said Guy Lebas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery…