AI & RoboticsNews

General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall to a 12-month low, and Elon Musk is flexing $40 billion in debt for buying computing capacity and predicting that “200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation.” It’s not exactly the ideal week to announce a Series A for a neocloud. General Compute…
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NewsPhotography

A forgotten stash of government-issue soap, a riveted blast door and a stairwell lit by a single bulb: these photos reveal the inside of a secret Cold War bunker

It’s the sort of unremarkable building you could have walked past hundreds of times without giving it a second thought. A long, low concrete block behind a wire fence on the edge of a field, topped by a structure that could be a water tank. Not the most exciting of places to shoot, you might think. Yet for decades, this unremarkable building in Nottingham held an enticing secret: it was…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla turns to car rental platform Turo for Full Self-Driving test drives

Turo will soon let US renters search specifically for Teslas with “Full Self-Driving” (Supervised) turned on, using a direct integration with Tesla to verify each car’s FSD status. The feature goes live on October 28. For Tesla, it’s a new way to put FSD in front of people who don’t own a Tesla, and a new source of the FSD subscriptions that now count toward Elon Musk’s pay…
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DefenseNews

India capitalizes on Europe’s growing demand for ammunition

NEW DELHI — India’s defense exports to Europe have surged, driven largely by demand for ammunition and artillery shells as European countries ramp up military spending amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. The rising exports could pave the way for deeper industrial cooperation between the two sides. Indian Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said that demand linked to the European Union’s…
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