Tnw Tnw - Deep tech # pt-br <![CDATA[Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s]]> <![CDATA[Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-nemotron-4-open-weights-china]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/agentic-ai-nemotron-3-5-lightning.avif <![CDATA[August 12, 2026 - 3:03 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor]]> <![CDATA[The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/pragmatik-labs-junyang-lin-qwen-shanghai-agents]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Junyang-Lin.avif <![CDATA[August 12, 2026 - 11:32 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[Italian scientists ready a new solar instrument for a make-or-break eclipse test]]> <![CDATA[Italian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than risk it in an aircraft hold, and readied it for one of the more nerve-racking experiments in physics: a test that has to succeed on the first attempt, during the total solar eclipse that sweeps over Europe on 12 August.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/italian-ciss-solar-instrument-eclipse-test]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Solar-eclipse.avif <![CDATA[August 11, 2026 - 3:56 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings]]> <![CDATA[TL;DRNvidia has brought six private capital giants into a $500bn financing consortium after months of underwriting customers alone, Saudi Arabia’s data centre pipeline needs more debt than its banks can supply, and US local data centre bans passed 500 in July. Three developments in 48 hours point to the same shift: the binding constraints on AI infrastructure are now capital and consent, not chips.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-buildout-capital-consent-nvidia-lenders-saudi-backlash]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/Data-center.avif <![CDATA[August 11, 2026 - 3:50 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it]]> <![CDATA[Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs and other infrastructure as part of a contract with Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Morgan Stanley leads the transaction.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/lambda-917-million-gpu-leveraged-loan-nvidia-morgan-stanley]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Lambda-logo.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 3:51 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[Intel spent $82bn buying its own shares. Now it wants $15bn back]]> <![CDATA[Intel announced a proposed $15 billion underwritten public offering of common stock before the market opened on Monday. It filed a registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC. Underwriters hold a 30-day option on up to $2.25bn of additional shares. J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are joint book-running managers.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/intel-15-billion-stock-offering-14a-external-wafers]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/intel-q2-2026-earnings-revenue-ai-data-centre.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 3:32 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[She left OpenAI’s number two job. Now she’s sending blood trucks to your door]]> <![CDATA[ChronicleBio opens a sign-up link on 11 August for mobile blood draws at patients’ homes. The first 250 people pay nothing. After that the test costs $400, charged at cost. “The whole point for us is not to make money,” co-founder Fidji Simo told Fortune, which first reported the plan. “It’s to collect data so we can find cures.”]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/chroniclebio-fidji-simo-blood-trucks-ai-chronic-disease]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/Fidji-Simo.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 2:06 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]> <![CDATA[A London startup is betting AI’s next big layer is the supermarket, not the data centre]]> <![CDATA[The Series A+ round, reported by Tech Funding News, came from Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital, a backer since Edgify’s 2020 seed. It takes total funding to $25 million. EU-Startups pegs the raise at €7.7 million.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/edgify-9m-edge-ai-retail-supermarket-checkouts]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/edgify-team.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 12:54 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:12:36]]>