Nvidia has agreed to license chip technology from startup Groq and hire away its CEO, a veteran of Alphabet’s Google, Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday. The deal follows a familiar pattern in recent years where the world’s biggest technology firms pay large sums in deals with promising startups to take their technology and talent but stop short of formally acquiring the target. Groq specialises in what is known as inference, where artificial intelligence models that have already been trained respond to requests from users. While Nvidia dominates the market for training AI models, it faces much more…
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Newly-appointed United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent Christensen has met BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman. The meeting took place around 4pm on Monday at the BNP chairman’s office in Gulshan, party sources said. The US ambassador was accompanied by officials from the embassy. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Joint Secretary General Humayun Kabir, member of the chairperson’s advisory council Mahadi Amin, and Press Secretary Saleh Shibli were present during the meeting. This was the first meeting between the US ambassador and the BNP chair since Christensen formally assumed his duties in Dhaka.…
From the reports that exposed 1971’s genocide to the investigations that punctured the WMD myth, Syed Badrul Ahsan argues the press is the people’s conscience only when it shrugs off fear, resists power’s seductions, and digs until truth is undeniable These are hard times for the media in diverse parts of the globe, for it is an age when for governments and regimes any mention of truth is grating to the ear. Of course, it sometimes cheers people when the media are referred to as the fourth estate. But how much of the truth is there in that statement? In…
New Zealand batters Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips scored centuries in a superb partnership to lay the platform for a 41-run win over India in the third one-day international (ODI) in Indore on Sunday, which sealed a comeback 2-1 series victory for the touring side. A target of 337 left the hosts facing a daunting task and they ran out of steam despite veteran Virat Kohli’s battling knock of 124. India started shakily and lost wickets at frequent intervals before Kohli gave home fans hope as he combined with Nitish Kumar Reddy (53) in an 88-run partnership. Kristian Clarke removed…
HBO Max’s “The Pitt,” a medical drama which puts a spotlight on America’s strained emergency rooms, won best drama series at the Golden Globes on Sunday, while “The Studio”, a Hollywood satire from Apple TV, earned the award for best comedy. “The Pitt” follows Dr Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, played by Noah Wyle, who works at the often-daunting Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room. “We live in a very divided country in the world right now, but I think cinema brings us all together not only as an audience but as a community,” said “The Pitt” creator, R Scott Gemmill. “What…
At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night in the worst railway accident in the country since 2013. The accident happened at 7:45pm (1845 GMT) near Adamuz in the province of Cordoba, about 360km (223 miles) south of the capital Madrid. It left 122 people injured, with 48 still in hospital and 12 in intensive care, according to emergency services. “The train tipped to one side… then everything went dark, and all I heard was screams,” said Ana, a young woman who was travelling back to…
facebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonsharethis sharing button Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has been invited to join the Gaza “Board of Peace” proposed by US President Donald Trump and Tokayev has agreed, the Tengri news outlet on Monday quoted the Kazakh president’s press secretary as saying. The board would be chaired for life by Trump and would start by addressing the Gaza conflict and then be expanded to deal with other conflicts, according to a copy of the letter and draft charter seen by Reuters. Tokayev’s spokesman, Ruslan Zheldibay, said that the Kazakhstan had been invited to become one…
Just as European companies were getting used to last year’s hard-won US trade tariff deals, President Donald Trump has put them back in his crosshairs with an explosive threat to place levies on nations that oppose his planned takeover of Greenland. Trump on Saturday said he would put rising tariffs from Feb 1 on goods imported from EU members Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, until the US is allowed to buy Greenland, a step major EU states decried as blackmail. On Sunday, European Union ambassadors reached broad agreement to intensify efforts to…
BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman is scheduled to visit Chattogram on Jan 25 to address a major election rally at the city’s Pologround venue. Preparations for the event have already commenced across the BNP’s Chattogram city, north, and south district units. The Chattogram city unit has already held preliminary meetings. In addition, a high-level meeting involving party candidates from all 16 parliamentary constituencies in Chattogram has been convened for Monday at the residence of BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury. Ershad Ullah, convenor of Chattogram Metropolitan BNP, told bdnews24.com on Sunday night: “Our honourable chairman will attend the grand…
The 1st Merit List of BUP Admission Result 2025 Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Admission Test for the session 2024-2025 is to be published soon. It is assumed that the Merit List for FBS, FASS, FSSS, and FST Faculty will be available to check on March 29 or a few days later. The candidates who appeared on the exam can collect the results from the official admission portal. As per the report, the Bangladesh University of Professionals – BUP will conduct the admission test on December 13. The admission test was started on November 8 and continues till November 22,…