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By Anhata Rooprai, Rashika Singh and Aditya Soni Aug 25 (Reuters) – Nvidia’s results on Wednesday will test whether the company’s latest Rubin chips can drive another period of explosive growth, with some investors questioning the sustainability of the AI spending boom. The chipmaker has been the biggest beneficiary of the race to build AI infrastructure. Recently, though, its stock has come under pressure as the company has pumped billions […]

By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they’ve built on their own: an AI model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it. Their company, Accelerated Understanding Inc, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 […]

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Voters in South Carolina will decide whether they want to establish a Graham family dynasty as they go to the polls on Tuesday in a Republican primary pitting Darline Graham against U.S. Representative Ralph Norman. Graham, 62, is the sister of Lindsey Graham, who died at the age of 71 on July 11, having served in Congress for 31 years — 23 […]

MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that remarks by Finnish President Alexander Stubb approving of Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory showed that he, along with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, belonged to the “party of war.” Stubb has backed Ukraine’s long-range strikes deep inside Russia, saying that such attacks, including on civilian logistics centres, increase the cost of Moscow’s war effort and could help bring it […]

Aug 25 (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures inched up on Tuesday as technology stocks recovered from sharp declines in the previous session and investors awaited a key inflation report and results from AI bellwether Nvidia. The benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed lower on Monday after a selloff in semiconductor shares, with markets balancing AI-driven growth against lofty valuations. Most megacaps were higher in premarket trading on […]

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) – At least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 was found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study released on Tuesday. Out of the 878 former players who died during that time frame, 235 donated their brains, researchers said, with 215 of those donated brains found to have CTE, a degenerative disease […]

By Dan Levine Aug 25 (Reuters) – A group of U.S. senators said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent explanation for how he disposed of a financial stake in litigation involving ‌Merck’s Gardasil vaccine conflicts with earlier answers he gave in written testimony and federal ethics filings, a letter reviewed by Reuters shows.   The letter, sent on Monday by four Democratic senators, notes that Merck earlier this year agreed […]

GENEVA, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The head of the Red Cross and the United Nations on Tuesday warned that autonomous weapons that can kill people without human involvement could soon be used in conflicts and called for urgent negotiations to restrict their use.  “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President of […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza. No one has been held accountable. Israeli officials said the target was a suspected Hamas camera on the roof of Nasser Hospital. Among those killed were Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri and Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for The Associated […]