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Nvidia is buying the AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion, according to a report from CNBC. The purchase is expected to be Nvidia’s largest ever, and with Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing. As tech companies compete to grow their AI capabilities, they need computing power, and Nvidia’s GPUs have emerged as the industry standard. But Groq has been working on a different type of chip called an LPU (language processing unit), which it has claimed can run LLMs at 10 times faster and using one-tenth the energy. Groq’s CEO…

Last week, the upcoming Realme Neo8’s specs got leaked, and at the time we didn’t know what to expect in terms of its announcement time frame. Thankfully, today Digital Chat Station has revealed just that on Weibo. The Realme Neo8 is allegedly scheduled to be unveiled in January. Unfortunately, there is nothing more concrete than that yet, but it is good to know that there isn’t going to be much waiting left to do for it to arrive. After all, its predecessor was already official for about two weeks around this time last year. Realme Neo7 The Neo8 will be…

The excitement for the European startup market was hard to ignore at the annual Slush conference in Helsinki last month. But the actual data on the state of the region’s venture market shows a different reality. The upshot: The European market has not recovered from the global venture capital reset that occurred in 2022 and 2023. But there is evidence it is on the cusp of a turnaround, including Klarna’s recent exit and the region’s homegrown AI startups garnering attention from local investors and beyond. Investors poured €43.7 billion ($52.3 billion) into European startups in 2025 across 7,743 deals through…

Last week we saw the first CAD-based render depicting the upcoming iPhone Fold, and today a video shows the device from more angles – or does it? It might be based on the leaked CAD schematics, but if it is then why isn’t that mentioned in it? We assume it’s to make you think this is a leak. It’s not. It’s more like speculation. And there is at least one significant departure from the previously leaked CAD schematics, in how inconsistent the selfie camera’s placement is on the inner, folding screen. While we don’t know who’s right here, we will…

Waymo is shipping a software update to help its robotaxis navigate disabled traffic lights during power outages “more decisively,” the company said Tuesday in a blog post that explains why its self-driving vehicles got stuck at intersections during a blackout in San Francisco this past weekend. Waymo said the self-driving system in its robotaxis treats dead stop lights as four-way stops, just like humans are supposed to. That should have allowed the robotaxis to operate normally in spite of the massive outage. Instead, many of the vehicles requested a “confirmation check” from Waymo’s fleet response team to make sure what…

Introduction There is a new crop of Redmi Note 15 phones in town, and we have started going through them one by one. Today, we have the Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G. It is not the best of the lot, but it’s certainly not the worst either. We would call it a sensible middle-ground kind of device in the grand scheme of things. As is typically the case, Xiaomi isn’t rocking the boat too hard. You really can’t afford to make any sweeping formula changes on a bestseller like the Redmi Note family, or you risk way too much. Still,…

For example, researchers at Imperial College were investigating how certain “pirate phages”—these fascinating viruses that hijack other viruses—manage to break into bacteria. Understanding these mechanisms could open up entirely new ways of tackling drug-resistant infections, which is obviously a huge global health challenge.What Co-scientist brought to this work was the ability to rapidly analyze decades of published research and independently arrive at a hypothesis about bacterial gene transfer mechanisms that matched what the Imperial team had spent years developing and validating experimentally.What we’re really seeing is that the system can dramatically compress the hypothesis generation phase—synthesizing vast amounts of literature…

Mill may have started with households, but co-founder and CEO Matt Rogers says the food waste startup has long aspired to expand to commercial customers. “This has been part of our plan since our Series A deck,” Rogers told TechCrunch. Now, with an official deal locked in with Amazon and Whole Foods the company’s plan to profit from handling other people’s food waste is a bit more public. Whole Foods will deploy a commercial-scale version of Mill’s food waste bin in each of its grocery stores beginning in 2027. The bins will grind and dehydrate waste from the produce department,…

Introduction Samsung is ending 2025 on a high note. The Galaxy S25 series outsold previous generations of S phones and Samsung’s foldables are more popular than ever. However, there’s trouble brewing underneath the success. As popular as the S25 phones were, they felt like they were in a holding pattern with minor upgrades. And the big experiment this year, the S25 Edge, failed. As for foldables, the Z Flip7 and Z Fold7 brought much-needed upgrades to the Z series. And look at the Galaxy Z TriFold – that’s certainly a head-turner even if it’s more of a commercially available tech…