DefenseNews

This Army unit is the first to field new company and battalion drones

Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division, which is currently deployed in Romania, recently became the first Army unit to field the service’s newest reconnaissance drones. The 317th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, out of Fort Drum, New York, employed the Skydio and GhostX systems during training operations at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, according to an Army…
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CryptoNews

MARA Holdings Loans 7,377 BTC to Third Parties Amid Bold Yield Strategy

According to an operations and production update from MARA Holdings, a publicly traded bitcoin mining company, the firm has extended 7,377 BTC in loans to third parties to achieve a modest yield. ‘Significant Interest’ — MARA Holdings Explains Bitcoin Lending Program MARA Holdings (Nasdaq: MARA), a prominent bitcoin miner, has disclosed updates on its BTC production and mining operations…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI

Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but was pegged by reports at $700 million when Nvidia first reported its intent to close the deal in April. Run:ai posted the deal news on its website today and also said that…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration

In the tech world, we like to label periods as the year of (insert milestone here). This past year (2024) was a year of broader experimentation in AI orchestration and, of course, agentic use cases. As 2025 opens, VentureBeat spoke to industry analysts and IT decision-makers…
DefenseNews

Under Trump, decision on Air Force’s NGAD will shape fleet for decades

The Air Force will set a new path for how it will fight air wars during the first year of the next Donald Trump presidency, which will have ramifications for decades to come. The Air Force struggled for much of 2024 to figure out how — and even whether — to proceed with its planned sixth-generation fighter, known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD. But NGAD’s original anticipated cost…
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