The #andes variant of #hantavirus causes the death of several unfortunate passengers on a #cruiseship. Fair enough, #citizens shortly hold their breath and wonder how serious this could be: another #pandemic , like
#covid ? History repeats itself: at #lightspeed , #conspiracytheories pop up: it’s the #healthofficials , the #governments , the #scientists and #cocacola that are to blame. Don’t you love #humanity ?

US Top News and Analysis | Nvidia's Jensen Huang bets on this British startup to build 'next frontier' of AI

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Nvidia announced a partnership with British startup Ineffable Intelligence to develop new AI systems built on reinforcement learning, which the companies describe as “superlearners” that continuously learn from experience. The collaboration will co‑design infrastructure for large‑scale reinforcement learning using Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell chips and its Vera Rubin platform, with engineers from both firms working together. Ineffable, founded in late 2025 by former DeepMind reinforcement‑learning lead David Silver, recently secured a record $1.1 billion seed round led by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, DST Global, Index, Google and the U.K.’s Sovereign AI Fund. The deal highlights a broader trend of top AI talent leaving big‑tech firms to launch independent labs, as numerous recent startups in the field have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/google-deepmind-alumni-startup-partners-nvidia-superintelligence.html

#JensenHuang #DavidSilver #Nvidia #IneffableIntelligence #Sequoia #Lightspeed #DSTGlobal #Google #OpenAI #DeepMind # #VeraRubin

@Ambulocetus
#SciFi #KenMacleod in a recent trilogy #Lightspeed introduced a national #AI the nature of which was empathic anticipation.

He doesn't write that as you pulled up to the drive-through the order you were about to ask for would be ready - or at 5 seconds readiness ahead of you.

Possibly with some fragment of green fibrous veg. added free at the point of use in accordance with national health service guidance.

Have a nice day.

Yes you could say no, order and wait, waste green.

Times of India | Home services startup Snabbit raises $56 million

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Snabbit, a Bengaluru‑based on‑demand home‑services platform, has secured $56 million in a Series D financing round co‑led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments and Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed and FJ Labs. The funding values the company at roughly $390 million and brings its total capital raised to $112 million. Snabbit plans to use the capital to improve unit economics, bolster its operating infrastructure, and expand into additional cities while maintaining a hyper‑local model. The startup currently handles more than 40,000 jobs daily across five cities, has processed over one million monthly jobs as of March 2026, and operates through a network of over 15,000 service professionals, targeting India’s $60 billion‑plus, largely unorganized home‑services market.

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/home-services-startup-snabbit-raises-56-million/articleshow/130585659.cms

#Snabbit #Susquehanna #MiraeAsset #BertelsmannIndia #NexusVenture #Lightspeed #FJLabs #AayushAgarwal #UrbanCompany #Pronto #

Home services startup Snabbit raises $56 million - The Times of India

India Business News: Bengaluru: Snabbit, a quick home services platform, has raised $56 million in a Series D round, as it looks to consolidate its position in India’s fas.

The Times of India

👨‍🚀🔭 Special relativity creates significant visual distortions as an object approaches #lightspeed.

This #video demonstrates how the Doppler effect and relativistic aberration warp distance and color for high speed observers.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/what-you-would-see-and-feel-while-traveling-near-the-speed-of-light.html

#physics #science #space #relativity #astronomy #simulation #universe

What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light

We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we'll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at.

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Scientists Say They’ve Found “Dark Points” That Move Faster Than the Speed of Light

An international team of researchers claims it has observed "dark points" within light waves that can move faster than the speed of light.

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Telesat expands Canadian landing station footprint for Lightspeed

Telesat has gained access to more land across Canada to set up landing stations ahead of plans to deploy pathfinders for its Lightspeed broadband constellation in December.

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