NVIDIA and Qualcomm Ventures have joined a rising coalition of U.S. and Indian buyers backing India’s deep tech startups. The group launched in September with greater than $1 billion in commitments, timing that aligns with India’s new ₹1 trillion (round $12 billion) analysis and improvement initiative. NVIDIA has joined the coalition as a strategic technical advisor, with none monetary commitments, whereas Qualcomm Ventures has come on board alongside six Indian enterprise corporations, bringing extra capital commitments totaling greater than $850 million. India is dwelling to greater than 180,000 startups and over 120 unicorns. In its early years, a lot of…
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Folks Inc., one of many largest media publishers within the U.S., has signed an AI licensing cope with Microsoft. The media large (previously often known as Dotdash Meredith) made the announcement Tuesday as part of mum or dad firm IAC’s third-quarter earnings. Beneath the deal, Folks Inc. will change into a launch associate in Microsoft’s writer content material market. That is the corporate’s second AI deal following its earlier agreement with OpenAI final yr. Folks Inc. CEO Neil Vogel described the brand new market as “primarily a pay-per-use market the place AI gamers straight can compensate publishers to be used…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Reality Social that he’s re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to steer the NASA, the nation’s area company, months after withdrawing the nomination. The reversal comes after weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed at Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has been main NASA in an interim capability. “The assist from the space-loving neighborhood has been overwhelming. I’m not positive how I earned the belief of so many, however I’ll do all the things I can to reside as much as these expectations,” Isaacman — who…
On this tutorial, we discover Hydra, a complicated configuration administration framework initially developed and open-sourced by Meta Analysis. We start by defining structured configurations utilizing Python dataclasses, which permits us to handle experiment parameters in a clear, modular, and reproducible method. As we transfer by way of the tutorial, we compose configurations, apply runtime overrides, and simulate multirun experiments for hyperparameter sweeps. Take a look at the FULL CODES here. import subprocess import sys subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, “-m”, “pip”, “install”, “-q”, “hydra-core”]) import hydra from hydra import compose, initialize_config_dir from omegaconf import OmegaConf, DictConfig from dataclasses import dataclass, area from typing import Record,…
Amazon has advised Perplexity to get its agentic browser out of its on-line retailer, the businesses each confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After warning Perplexity a number of instances that Comet, its AI-powered buying assistant, was violating Amazon’s terms of service by not figuring out itself as an agent, the ecommerce large despatched the AI search engine startup a sternly worded cease-and-desist letter, Perplexity wrote in a weblog submit entitled “Bullying isn’t innovation.” “This week, Perplexity obtained an aggressive authorized menace from Amazon, demanding we prohibit Comet customers from utilizing their AI assistants on Amazon. That is Amazon’s first authorized salvo…
Shares of electrical aviation startup Beta Applied sciences took flight Tuesday as the corporate made its debut on the New York Inventory Trade with an outsized elevate of $1 billion and a inventory value that closed up. The Vermont-based firm priced shares in its IPO at $34, above its predicted vary of $27 to $33. Beta Applied sciences offered 29.9 million shares to boost extra $1 billion at a valuation of $7.4 billion. As soon as buying and selling began, shares of Beta Applied sciences dipped earlier than recovering and finally closing at $36. Beta Applied sciences’ public market debut…
Rivian has created its second spinoff firm this yr: an industrial AI and robotics enterprise known as Thoughts Robotics. The brand new effort can be centered round utilizing “industrial AI to reshape how bodily world companies function and leverage Rivian operations information as the muse for a robotics information flywheel,” in keeping with a the corporate’s third-quarter shareholder letter revealed Tuesday. (That’s a mouthful of buzzwords; we’ve requested Rivian to make clear issues a bit extra and can replace the put up if it does.) Rivian stated Tuesday it has secured round $110 million in “exterior seed capital,” however didn’t…
Sora, the AI video generator from OpenAI, is now formally accessible for Android users within the U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Initially launched as an iOS app in September, Sora shortly rose to the highest of the App Retailer charts, amassing over 1 million downloads in every week. With its arrival on the Google Play Retailer, Sora is anticipated to draw a bigger consumer base, doubtless leading to a surge in downloads. The Android model retains all of the options of its iOS counterpart, together with the “Cameos” function, which permits customers to generate movies of themselves…
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has voted in opposition to a Tesla proposal to offer CEO Elon Musk a compensation package deal value $1 trillion. The fund, which is managed by Norges Financial institution Funding Administration, holds a 1.14% stake in Tesla valued at about $11.7 billion, in response to its mid-year filings in June. “Whereas we admire the numerous worth created underneath Mr. Musk’s visionary function, we’re involved in regards to the complete dimension of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key particular person threat — in keeping with our views on government compensation,” the fund stated in…
Netflix is reportedly in talks to license video podcasts distributed by iHeartMedia, in accordance with Bloomberg. iHeartMedia’s podcast portfolio consists of exhibits like “The Breakfast Membership,” “Las Culturistas,” “Jay Shetty Podcast,” and “Stuff You Ought to Know.” Netflix is searching for exclusivity, which implies video podcasts that it licenses from iHeartMedia may now not be uploaded to YouTube. It’s value noting that if a deal does come collectively, iHeartMedia won’t license its whole podcast catalogue to the streaming service. The information comes a number of weeks after Netflix signed the same cope with Spotify that may carry a curated choice…