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Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more (Wccftech)

Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving ...

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How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

How the data center industry courts kids amid a ba...

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Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men (New York Times)

Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Te...

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CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+ (Kevin Townsend/SecurityWeek)

CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% ...

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A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Vi...

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AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid a historic El Niño, as some scientists question the technology's accuracy (Financial Times)

AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a m...

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Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind (Financial Times)

Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to ...

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Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increa...

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Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered...

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Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B ...

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Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads (Efosa Udinmwen/TechRadar)

Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, f...

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China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending (Osmond Chia/BBC)

China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from...

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Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verificatio...

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Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August (Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet...

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Europe's three biggest industrial companies are cashing in on the AI boom, as Schneider and Siemens expand further into software, while ABB focuses on equipment (Aaron Kirchfeld/Financial Times)

Europe's three biggest industrial companies are ca...

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SF-based home insurer Stand, which uses digital twins of homes to price wildfire risk and insures $10B+ of property, raised a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)

SF-based home insurer Stand, which uses digital tw...

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Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$3...

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Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundre...

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