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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs Leads $60M Series C For Personal Loan Fintech Kashable
Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, has secured $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Sustainable Investing.
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‘Rogaine’ in a Pill? Oral Minoxidil Aces Major Hair Loss Trial
Veradermics' VDPHL01, an oral version of the existing drug minoxidil, showed strong results in a late stage clinical trial.
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Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments do biology. Eng…
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Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner
Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.
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Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies
This webinar covers power system modeling and simulation across multiple timescales, from quasi-static 8760 analysis through EMT studies, fault classification, and inverter-based resource grid integration. What Attendees will Learn Programmatic network construction and multi-fid…
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RAG precision tuning can quietly cut retrieval accuracy by 40%, putting agentic pipelines at risk
Enterprise teams that fine-tune their RAG embedding models for better precision may be unintentionally degrading the retrieval quality those pipelines depend on, according to new research from Redis. The paper, "Training for Compositional Sensitivity Reduces Dense Retrieval Gener…
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DeepSeek Slashes API Prices, Sets New Low for Large Model Costs
DeepSeek cuts API prices by up to 90%, unlocking cheaper large-scale AI deployment and accelerating agent-based applications.
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Moore Threads Reports Strong Q1 Revenue Growth, Advances 100,000-GPU Cluster Development
Moore Threads posts triple-digit growth and pushes toward 100,000-GPU clusters as China accelerates its domestic AI compute ambitions.
pandaily.com
China outlines new labour protection plan for nation’s 200 million gig workers
China has vowed to better protect the country’s vast gig-economy workforce, as an economic slowdown leads millions of people to sign up for delivery, ride-hailing and other informal jobs on online platforms. The 12-point plan – issued by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and th…
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Intel warns China of severe server CPU shortage as AI demand surges
Intel has recently issued a warning to major cloud service providers in China that, due to a surge in demand for AI infrastructure and slower-than-expected yield ramp-up for its 18A process, server CPU supply will face severe shortages over the next two quarters (Q2 and Q3). Deli…
technode.com
The End Of SEO? How AI Is Reshaping Brand Discovery On The Web
For decades, businesses optimised their content to make their brands visible, until artificial intelligence (AI) unlocked fresh opportunities.  Businesses began…
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Capcom-licensed Monster Hunter Outlanders mobile game starts test in China on April 29
The mobile game Monster Hunter Outlanders, licensed by Capcom and developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studio Group, will begin its testing phase on April 29. This test will be a limited-availability, account-restricted, data-wipe beta with in-game purchases enabled, and is only open to A…
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EP212: Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Mesh
Storing data is the easy part. Deciding where and how to organize it is the real challenge.
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Register Renaming
[Shreeyash] asks an interesting question: how many registers does your CPU have? The answer is probably more than you think. The reason? Modern CPUs — at least many of them …read more
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
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A Different Kind of Ultrasonic Levitation
Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and small objects can be held in the nodes of this standing wave. …read more
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How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
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The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet …read more
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