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As AI models scale over 1 trillion parameters and computing clusters expand to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, traditional interconnections are struggling to keep up. Next-generation AI requires much higher levels of connectivity, while significantly reducing power consumption. Enter Hyperlume, a Canadian high-tech startup that tackles these infrastructure restrictions. Hyperlume replaces high-performance computing with aged copper-based solutions in AI data centers and high-bandwidth, low-latency optical interconnects. Today, Hyperlume announced it has raised $12.5 million in seed funding to provide optical interconnect technology to the market. The round is led by BDC’s Deep Tech Venture Fund and Arctern Ventures, and was…
Nicola Corporation, once a promising name for electric trucks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The Phoenix-based company known for its battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks filed Wednesday, showing another collapse in the struggling EV sector. The move comes just two years after the company founder Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulent investors. Milton’s belief comes from Nicola’s exaggerated claims about technology. As part of the bankruptcy process, Nicola is installing assets at auctions while maintaining a skeleton crew to maintain a limited business. Employees will continue to be paid during the transition. However,…
Hydrogen-electric trucking startup Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to secure additional funds to find buyers or maintain the business. Nicola was once a Silicon Valley beloved, but was worth $30 billion in June 2020 after being revealed through a special purpose acquisition merger. However, a series of scandals surrounding founder and former CEO Trevor Milton put the company in freefall. Currently, Nikola will be taking the auction on the property withholding court approval, according to regulatory filings. “Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we face a variety of markets and macroeconomic factors that…
Humans are once a startup that promised to redefine how people interact with AI, and they call it quits. According to an exclusive report from Bloomberg, the startup has shut down its AI PIN business and is selling assets to HP for $116 million after poor reviews and sales declined. Founded by former Apre veterans, the company raised around $241 million from well-known investors, including Microsoft and Openai CEO Sam Altman. However, after burning $230 million, the company was unable to gain traction. Humane said Tuesday that the transaction includes most of its employees, including its software platform and intellectual…
Star midfielder Jude Bellingham will not play for Real Madrid in Lariga until March 9th. Joining the club’s recent struggle.Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham was hit by a two-match Lariga ban by the Spanish Football Federation’s Disciplinary Committee after being challenged. England International was rejected by referee Josemnula Montero in a 1-1 draw for the champions at Osasuna on Saturday. He expressed his frustration and claimed he had not shamed the referee, Bellingham missed the league match between Girona and Real Betis on February 23 and March 2 respectively. The Disciplinary Committee said Madrid’s attempt to show that Bellingham is not…
WHO: Bangladesh vs IndiaContents: ICC Champions Trophy 2025Location: Dubai International Stadium, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesWhen: Thursday, February 20th at 1pm (09:00 GMT)Follow the match streams of live text and photo commentary from Al Jazeera Sport. The favorites who lift the Indian Champions Trophy will take part in the tournament against Bangladesh in Dubai on Thursday. All India matches will take place in the United Arab Emirates rather than Pakistan, the host country of the 2025 edition, after an agreement is reached with the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Pakistan. Rohit Sharma’s team lost the finalists in the last ICC 1-day…
Dr. Alexandru Muresan of Cluj-Napoca Institute of Technology, Eusew Young Energy Ambassador, discusses the importance of education and workforce development in supporting the transition of green trading to sustainable energy in Europe. As the EU and its member states have invested heavily in green technology and infrastructure, it is essential to address the human elements of this transition. There is an urgent need for a professional workforce, and many countries have already experienced shortages in important areas. At the same time, the success of European green trading depends on the citizens’ ability to understand and adopt new technologies and practices.…
Companies like Nvidia and SoftBank focus on industrial robotics as a key area of future R&D, so startups today are different to how AI is being used in factory room floors. We raised funds for the aspects. They have developed AI-based hardware to identify the machines need repairs and what’s wrong, raising $75 million in funding. The company will continue to develop technology that uses this money to bring new customers and measure vibration, sound, temperature and other factors. The company has monitored over 5 billion hours of machine operations so far, covering a wide range of equipment manufacturers and…
Building on the legacy of predecessor PHENIX, a new RHIC detector, sPHENIX is set to release the first results that will shine new light on the structure of the quark gluon plasma. With the advent of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) a quarter century ago, the field of Relativistic Heavy Ion finally had access to a fuller suite of signatures of the long searched-for new state of nuclear matter known as the quark gluon plasma (QGP). Specifically with RHIC’s high collider centre of mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon-nucleon collision, a plethora of hard scattering probes which could…
The incident marks the first death as Israeli forces retreated from most of the border area on Tuesday.At least one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack on vehicles in southern Lebanon, a day after Israeli forces retreated from most of the border area. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday that “an enemy drone hit the vehicle… in the town of Aita al-Shaaaa.” Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency identified the victim as Yusuf Mohamed Sole, the son of the town’s mayor, and targeted him while he was sitting in the car in front of his home.…