UK’s Nscale signs deal with Microsoft to supply 200,000 Nvidia AI chips
British AI group Nscale said on Wednesday it signed a deal with Microsoft to deliver a total of about 200,000 Nvidia AI chips.
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Paytm parent restructures to bring financial, tech entities under direct ownership
Paytm’s parent company, One 97 Communications, is undergoing a major internal restructuring. The company will bring several financial and technology subsidiaries under direct ownership. This move aims to simplify the group’s structure and boost operational efficiency. The transactions are valued…
Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in the world are…
Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quickly tag…
Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code
As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data to new cures often require help from someone with…
The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it Wrinkles and gray…
Can we repair the internet?
From addictive algorithms to exploitative apps, data mining to misinformation, the internet today can be a hazardous place. Books by three influential figures—the intellect behind “net neutrality,” a former Meta executive, and the web’s own inventor—propose radical approaches to fixing…
How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it
Be honest: Have you ever looked up someone from your childhood on social media with the sole intention of seeing how they’ve aged? One of my colleagues, who shall remain nameless, certainly has. He recently shared a photo of a…
Resale home marketplace HouseEazy raises $16.8 million in round led by Accel
Resale home marketplace HouseEazy has secured $16.8 million in a funding round led by Accel. The company, founded in 2021, utilizes a full-stack model to simplify pre-owned home transactions. Funds will be used for tech advancement, innovation, and expansion into…
Airtel, Google to build AI hub in Visakhapatnam
Bharti Airtel and Google has entered into a partnership to set up an AI hub in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, with support from AdaniConneX. The $15 billion project, spread over five years, includes a dedicated data centre and a cable landing…