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AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has signed a sizable deal with Microsoft to bring Nvidia AI hardware to multiple data centers. The AI cloud provider announced on Wednesday that it signed a deal with Microsoft to bring approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to three data centers in Europe and one in the U.S. These GPUs will be delivered through Nscale-owned operations and through a joint venture with investment company Aker, one of Nscale’s investors. About half of these GPUs, 104,000, will head to a data center in Texas leased by Ionic Digital, over the next 12 to 18 months. Nscale plans…
Semiconductor design company Arm is partnering up with Meta to enhance the social media giant’s AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. Under the partnership, Meta’s ranking and recommendation systems will move to Arm’s Neoverse platform, which was recently optimized for AI systems in the cloud, among other implementations. “AI is transforming how people connect and create,” Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, said in a statement. “Partnering with Arm enables us to efficiently scale that innovation to the more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s apps and technologies.” Best known for its mobile CPU architecture, Arm’s GPU offerings…
Pony.ai and WeRide have received a key approval from Chinese securities regulators that clears the way for the autonomous vehicle technology companies to pursue secondary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The Chinese companies, both of which are based in Guangzhou, are already publicly traded in the U.S. on the Nasdaq Exchange. WeRide made its public debut in October 2024, and Pony.ai followed a month later. Now, Pony.ai and WeRide are each aiming to sell shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, following a trend of Chinese companies that have pursued a secondary listing. Pony.ai and WeRide said the…
Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale its agentic deployments across carriers and agencies globally. The all-equity round values the three-year-old startup at $300 million post-money, with participation from new investor Canapi Ventures and returning backers Redpoint Ventures, Eclipse, and Commerce Ventures. The insurance industry has been navigating a difficult stretch, with rising operational costs, legacy system constraints, and increasing customer expectations. Specifically in the non-life segment, global premium growth is projected to slow through 2026, driven by heightened competition, weaker rate momentum, and…
Universal Studios Hollywood is set to welcome guests to its Holidays at Universal Studios running from Monday, November 24, 2025, through Sunday, January 4, 2026, included with theme park admission.Festive experiences include:Grinchmas Who-bilation Universal Plaza transforms into a dazzling holiday spectacle in the whimsical world of Who-ville. The centerpiece of the celebration is a 65-foot Grinchmas tree adorned with hundreds of ornaments and thousands of LED lights. Nightly tree-lighting ceremonies with cascading snow and a singing quartet add to the magic.Guests can take photos with the mischievous Grinch and his loyal dog Max, enjoy cozy story time with Cindy-Lou Who…
On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed,” per a company blog post. Anthropic cites a range of new benchmark results to back up those performance claims. In the company’s testing, Haiku scored 73% on SWE-Bench verified and 41% on the command-line-focused Terminal-Bench — below Sonnet 4.5, but on par with Sonnet 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 in each case. Tests show similar results on benchmarks for tool use, computer use, and visual reasoning. The new…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 1:15 PM ET, Wed October 15, 2025 UPDATED: 1:15 P.M. EST, October 15, 2025Airports from New York to Phoenix are choosing not to air a controversial video of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem blaming the Democratic Party for the government shutdown, calling it a “political” message, with some experts calling it a violation of the 1939 Hatch Act. The potentially illegal video was released for airports to use last week. In it, Kristi Noem states “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations…
While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away — whether on vacation or in a different time zone — the rest of the team must delay progress until that person responds. Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, the co-founders of Eightfold — an AI recruiting startup last valued at $2.1 billion — believe that advances in LLMs and data privacy technologies can help solve some aspects of this costly problem. Earlier this year, they launched Viven,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price?Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent years amid high tuition prices, skyrocketing student loans and a dismal job market — plus ideological concerns from conservatives. Now, colleges are scrambling to prove their value to students.Borrowed from the business world, the term “return on investment” has been plastered on college advertisements across the U.S.…
According to a survey conducted by YouGov for Norwegian Cruise Line, the ‘Joy of Missing Out’ (JOMO) has become the new way to vacation.Over 70 percent of travelers are moving away from fast-paced sightseeing toward more restorative, meaningful escapes that prioritize personal well-being, flexibility and choice. While the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), fuels a culture of ‘doing it all’ and often leaves travelers needing a vacation from their vacation, JOMO celebrates the art of doing less with more meaning. Now, 77 percent of survey respondents reported planning upcoming vacation to be relaxing and slow-paced, choosing presence over pressure and…