Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later

Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wednesday a new arrangement in which AI cloud providers can access large volumes of itsContinue Reading

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With their numbers already in decline, secretaries and administrative assistants face another growing threat: artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude that can accomplish aspects of their workload with a tap. Employment projection data offers a grim outlook for the women-dominated profession that may be particularly vulnerable to AI-induced jobContinue Reading

The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. ‘For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic’

One hour of satellites over the northern Atacama Desert in Chile in October 2025. (Image credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser) If the number of satellites in Earth’s orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet’s surface. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by astronomers from the EuropeanContinue Reading

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Soitec and ZenSemi have formed a strategic collaboration to bring 300 mm BCD-on-SOI (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS on Silicon-on-Insulator) technology into high-volume production for power electronics. Soitec will supply its 300 mm Power-SOI substrates to ZenSemi, a specialty foundry in China, which is developing and ramping a new BCD-on-SOI process on top ofContinue Reading