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  1. Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day

    Wired ·

    In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.

  2. Why Moniepoint is restructuring its engineering and product teams?

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·

    Nigerian fintech unicorn Moniepoint is undertaking a major restructuring of its engineering and product divisions, a move that will result in some roles becoming redundant as the company shifts towards a leaner and more autonomous...

  3. DOD Sets Contract Requirements for Procuring ‘Unbiased’ AI

    News – MeriTalk ·

    The Department of Defense (DOD) issued new procurement guidance directing acquisition officials to incorporate the Trump administration’s “unbiased AI” principles into contracts for artificial intelligence systems. The guidance includes...

  4. Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

    The Verge ·

    Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its...

  5. OTX Threat: Domain Shadowing: Attackers Abuse Institutional Domains

    AlienVault OTX ·

    Two unrelated operations exploited domain shadowing techniques to place illegal gambling content beneath legitimate educational and government domains in Bangladesh, India, and Mexico. Unauthorized parties gained access to DNS...

  6. Amazon Business Debuts New Procurement Tools

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Amazon Business has rolled out a pair of tools designed for procurement professionals. First up is Amazon Business Value Intelligence, which “quantifies cost savings, operational efficiency, and purchase compliance in a single, complete...

  7. Major League Baseball is looking for a new kind of fan

    The Verge ·

    Fans cheer during game two of the 2026 World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays | Getty Images On October 2nd, just as Major League Baseball's Division Series was kicking off, the main MLB Instagram and TikTok...

  8. How Venn helped Dominion Dynamics scale its finance operations

    BetaKit ·

    Long before Dominion Dynamics closed its $139-million Series A round this summer, it faced a more basic financial problem. The Ottawa-based startup was growing fast and quickly becoming a major player in Canadian defence technology. But...

  9. After layoffs, Microsoft offers 60,000 employees a choice to leave

    DQ : Latest Posts ·

    Microsoft is offering voluntary exits to about 60,000 eligible employees globally, including those in participating teams in India, adding another option to its approach to workforce change after earlier layoffs. The programme covers...

  10. One Workspace, Many Demands: Rethinking the Desk for your best work

    DQ : Latest Posts ·

    Dataquest Partner Content | In association with HP India That is what makes the combination of the HP Series 5 Pro 49-inch DQHD Conferencing Monitor – 549pm and the HP Thunderbolt 4 Ultra 280W G6 Dock worth looking at. One gives the...

  11. HCLTech completes Robotiq.ai acquisition to add RPA to UnO Agentic

    DQ : Latest Posts ·

    HCLTech has completed its acquisition of Croatia-based Robotiq.ai, securing an enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) platform that it intends to combine with HCL UnO Agentic. In an October 26 stock exchange filing, HCLTech...

  12. In China, the AI Bubble Has Already Burst

    Slashdot ·

    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports. The meltdown, tanking the...

  13. 3 Ways to Boost MoE Inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark

    NVIDIA Technical Blog ·

    Generating tokens faster starts with identifying what limits inference performance. In the batch-size-1 evaluation of Ling-3.0-flash from Inclusion AI on NVIDIA... Generating tokens faster starts with identifying what limits inference...

  14. Anthropic’s IPO strategy? Cloak itself in altruism

    Fast Company Tech ·

    Anthropic’s cofounders, including CEO Dario Amodei, left OpenAI because they believed AI safety features should be developed alongside model capabilities from the very start of the development process. This mission has shaped the...

  15. Bengaluru AI Startup Simplismart Raises $14 Mn in NVIDIA-Backed Round

    Analytics India Mag ·

    Bengaluru-based AI inference infrastructure startup Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The company will use the...

  16. Ripple Gets OCC’s OK to Launch National Trust Bank

    PYMNTS.com ·

    It’s been a busy week so far for blockchain company Ripple. In the past day, the company has received regulatory permission to begin operating its own bank, Ripple National Trust Bank, according to a Monday (Oct. 26) press release, and...

  17. MultiChoice Overhauls DStv and GOtv Packages From Nov. 5

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·

    MultiChoice Nigeria is restructuring its DStv and GOtv subscription packages, introducing eight new plans with revised prices and expanded access to sports, movies and local entertainment. The changes, scheduled to take effect on...

  18. Biggest stock listing ever? A look at Anthropic’s IPO by the numbers

    Fast Company Tech ·

    Anthropic has the chance to make history with what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever. The artificial intelligence lab filed papers Monday setting up a Wall Street debut next month, ahead of its chief rival...

  19. Edge Sound raises $2M to help physical AI make sense of audio

    SiliconANGLE ·

    today announced it has raised $2 million in new funding to build audio infrastructure that isolates useful sounds and combines them with other sensor data to help physical AI systems understand what’s happening in real time....

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