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Add preferred source Dylan Patel and Jordan of SemiAnalysis, speaking on Latent Space, say the AI compute market has inverted: new startups are being priced out of GPU access because inference providers now earn roughly 60% gross margins on open models, up from about 10% nine months ago. Their ClusterMAX 3.0 ranking of 323 GPU…

The thorny puzzle of how to store nuclear waste that will pose a danger to humanity for at least the next 10,000 years has historically been the kind of thing that governments turn to science fiction to help solve. Back in the 1980s, for example, the Department of Energy (DOE) considered burying spent radioactive fuel…

Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund led the deal. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg. Supabase announced the raise today alongside another business milestone: it has agreed to buy fellow database startup Turso for an undisclosed sum.

OpenAI just published its first official implementation guide for GPT-6 models, specifically targeting startups looking to integrate the company’s latest AI technology into production workflows. The comprehensive documentation covers everything from model selection and reasoning effort tuning to prompt engineering and tool coordination – signaling OpenAI’s push to make its most advanced models more accessible…

FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation.

Each fall, Tom Mihalik makes a short trek from his store in Kensington Market to a lecture theatre on U of T’s St. George campus for what has become a very cherished tradition.

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Water at the secondary clarifier at the Clark County Water Reclamation District on Oct. 23, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Mingson Lau)

Local entrepreneur Dan Spangler has won first place in the inaugural North Carolina Small Business Center Network Startup Showdown