SETI Institute deploys AI agents to steer telescopes in search for alien tech
Researchers are using NVIDIA's Holoscan platform to process live radio telescope data, enabling AI agents to autonomously search for signals.
On a report by NVIDIA Blog
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Hugging Face initiative aims to standardize public science data for AI
Project ProtoStar seeks to make government-funded research artifacts more accessible and reusable for machine learning applications.
On a report by Hugging Face Blog
NVIDIA launches Minerva AIOps platform for AI factory monitoring
NVIDIA's new platform aims to consolidate observability across AI infrastructure and workloads to improve operational efficiency.
On a report by NVIDIA Blog
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Vercel adds session tracking to AI Gateway for caching efficiency
The platform's new logging feature groups AI requests to show how session affinity routes queries to cut costs.
On a report by Vercel
AI labs are said to buy data from defunct startups for training
A new market emerges where the operational data of failed companies is sold to AI model trainers, raising privacy and valuation questions.
On a report by MIT Tech Review AI
Lambda reportedly raises $4 billion as AI cloud IPO bets intensify
A major funding round for the GPU cloud provider highlights the sector's reliance on a few large customers and heavy debt.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Anthropic commits up to $20 billion to Akamai cloud in CPU-focused AI deal
A massive compute agreement highlights a growing reliance on general-purpose chips for AI workloads.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Crusoe secures $3.9 billion as data center builders chase AI compute demand
A massive funding round fuels the company's push into modular 'AI factories' and large-scale data center projects.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 shows early performance gains in MLPerf tests
NVIDIA's latest AI chip preview shows improved throughput, but the results are early and vendor-specific.
On a report by NVIDIA Blog
Mecka AI reportedly nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led funding round
The robotics data startup is said to be raising fresh capital as investor appetite for physical-world training data surges.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
XDOF may seek $1.2B valuation for robot data collection
A startup building robot training data pipelines is said to be in talks for a major funding round.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition may reshape open-source AI ecosystem
Nvidia's purchase of the model-hosting platform raises questions about the future of open-source AI development.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Nvidia invests in MediaTek to maintain influence amid custom chip trend
A $3.5 billion investment aims to keep Nvidia's ecosystem central as cloud giants build their own AI chips.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Anthropic reportedly commits to $45B AI compute deal with Nscale
Anthropic's latest long-term compute agreement suggests the AI lab is locking in capacity years ahead of delivery.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Nvidia reportedly invests in Cloverleaf to secure AI data center power
Nvidia's latest investment in a data center infrastructure firm aims to address a key bottleneck for AI compute.
On a report by TechCrunch AI
Micro1 reportedly hits $500M run rate amid AI data boom
A data-labeling startup's rapid growth points to surging demand for specialized AI training data.
On a report by TechCrunch AI