A former Nvidia employee, Luke Durant, found the largest known prime number, 2^31,636,281 - 1, using thousands of GPUs and free software. This discovery was made through GIMPS, a platform focused on finding Mersenne primes, showing a big change in how these numbers are calculated.
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, is getting ready for Cyclone Dana, with schools closing and travel plans disrupted. The cyclone is expected to hit with winds reaching up to 120 km/h. Trains and flights are canceled, and authorities are evacuating people from vulnerable areas.
Odisha is getting ready for Cyclone Dana, which happens to fall on the 25th anniversary of the 1999 Super Cyclone disaster. The state has made big strides in disaster management, leading to fewer casualties. This shows their dedication to being resilient with better warning systems and community involvement.
This is about the partnership between Reliance Industries and Nvidia to set up AI infrastructure in India. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlights how India is ready for AI growth, thanks to improvements in digital connectivity and computing power. The collaboration aims to improve AI services and applications for Reliance's large customer base.
Zoho Corporation is teaming up with NVIDIA to use its AI-powered computing platform for creating large language models (LLMs) in its software services. This partnership will boost user privacy and improve business operations for over 700,000 customers around the world.
Rapido has teamed up with IndoFast Energy to roll out 10,000 Piaggio electric vehicles with swappable batteries across India. This plan includes setting up over 300 battery swapping stations in Hyderabad and Bangalore by December 2024, making travel more sustainable in these big southern cities.
A Gartner report predicts that by 2026, one in five organizations will use AI to simplify their structure, which could lead to cutting more than half of middle management jobs. While AI can boost productivity and lower costs, it also brings up worries about job security and employee morale.
HuggingChat is a free chatbot made by Hugging Face that competes with ChatGPT. It offers users eight different AI models for tasks like creating images and reading documents. You can customize it a lot and add tools from the community, making it great for casual users and developers alike.
PhonePe has cut its customer support staff by 60% over the last five years, showing just how much AI technology is taking over. This shift highlights the need for businesses to adapt to automation, impacting jobs and the industry as a whole.
Jody Thomas, Canada’s former national security adviser, testified that early intel suggested Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed as payback for Ripudaman Singh Malik's murder. But later evidence hinted it could be an extra-judicial hit, adding more fuel to the already strained relations between Canada and India.