Bitcoin prices topped $100,000 for the first time ever on Wednesday as the cryptocurrency continued its record-setting run in the wake of President-elect Trump’s election victory and more buzz that the incoming administration will have a crypto czar. The price of bitcoin rose from $69,121 the day before Election Day to what was then an
Multiple senior executives at UnitedHealthcare have been under investigation by the Department of Justice, though it is not clear if CEO Brian Thompson was part of that investigation before his murder. Thompson was gunned down in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning in what police are calling a targeted attack. There were reports that the executives
Campbell’s Co. CEO Mark Clouse will retire from the packaged food company and join the front office of the NFL’s Washington Commanders early next year. The Commanders said Tuesday that Clouse will take on the role of president and head the team’s business operations in late January. The last day of his six-year tenure as
Generative AI is rapidly transforming industries, driving demand for secure, high-performance inference solutions to scale increasingly complex models efficiently and cost-effectively. Expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed today at its annual AWS re:Invent conference that it has extended NVIDIA NIM microservices across key AWS AI services to support faster AI inference
Foot Locker shares fell on Wednesday after the retailer severely missed Wall Street’s quarterly earnings estimates and cut its full-year sales and earnings forecast. The retailer’s stock fell by as much as 16% during morning trading as the company reported that it incurred a loss of $33 million, or 34 cents per share, for the
When popular bitcoin influencer Roger Ver, known by his 700,000 X followers as “Bitcoin Jesus,” was arrested in February while attending a cryptocurrency conference in Barcelona, the $3 trillion digital asset industry erupted with social media posts and commentary from leading industry voices condemning the act as yet another example of the Biden administration’s “war on crypto.”
Field AI is building robot brains that enable robots to autonomously manage a wide range of industrial processes. Vention creates pretrained skills to ease development of robotic tasks. And Cobot offers Proxie, an AI-powered cobot designed to handle material movement and adapt to dynamic environments, working seamlessly alongside humans. These leading robotics startups are all
Expanding what’s possible for developers and enterprises in the cloud, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services are converging at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this week to showcase new solutions designed to accelerate AI and robotics breakthroughs and simplify research in quantum computing development. AWS re:Invent is a conference for the global cloud-computing community packed with
As generative AI continues to grow, implementing and managing the right infrastructure becomes even more critical to ensure the secure and efficient development and deployment of AI-based solutions. To meet these needs, NVIDIA has introduced two professional-level certifications that offer structured paths for infrastructure and operations practitioners to enhance and validate the skills needed to
A recent survey from the Special Olympics Global Center for Inclusion in Education shows that while a majority of students with an intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) and their parents view AI as a potentially transformative technology, only 35% of educators believe that AI developers currently account for the needs and priorities of students with