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AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second close is likely to finish up,” Rodrigo Liang, CEO and co-founder of SambaNova, told TechCrunch. The latest round comes roughly five months after the Palo Alto, California-based startup company unveiled its SN50 chip, alongside a $350 million Series E in February. SambaNova had also been in acquisition talks with Intel,…

Lawmakers call FIFA decision to scrap Balogun suspension after Trump intervention ‘a disgrace’.Published On 8 Jul 20268 Jul 2026European lawmakers have called for a probe into FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, after the organisation’s unprecedented decision to overturn the World Cup suspension of US striker Folarin Balogun, raising questions about whether pressure from US President Donald Trump impacted the move.A group of members of the European parliament on Tuesday launched an initiative calling for an investigation into Infantino’s role in the decision, Euronews reported.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA letter being shared in the European parliament urged football associations…

USMNT and Monaco striker Folarin Balogun is being tracked by Paris Saint-Germain, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, while Major League Soccer clubs have made calls to look into the availability of Mohamed Salah. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers home page | Men’s summer grades | Women’s gradesTrending rumorsUSMNT and Monaco striker Folarin Balogun scored three goals at the World Cup. (Photo by John Dorton/USSF/Getty Images)- Paris Saint-Germain, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea are vying for the signature of USMNT and Monaco striker Folarin Balogun, as reported by Footmercato. Balogun, 25, has impressed at the World…

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, starring Sandra Hüller, is set to open the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. The director will personally welcome audiences at the gala screening in the Bosnia and Herzegovina capital on Aug. 14 with the film that rounds up his Cold War trilogy. Fatherland had its world premiere at Cannes this year, earning Pawlikowski the best director award. The film centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller) — an actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and…

It was the first day of spring this year. I was topless, face-down on a foldaway travel table, as the masseuse uttered six words that brought my attempt at relaxation to an abrupt end: “I think your arm is haunted.”I have broken my right arm seven times: seven breaks on seven separate occasions. Some years, my arm was in a sling more than it was out of one. The novelty of getting your mates to cover your cast in that 00s grafitti “S” and the relief of missing the bleep test at school quickly wore off.My arm-breaking debut came in…

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Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the 10th Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Jibrin Barau, in this interview speaks on the proposed constitutional amendment to establish state police. He explains why the National Assembly backed the bill, the safeguards against political abuse, funding, operational structure and the next legislative steps. Sunday Aborisade brings excerpts. Why did the Senate overwhelmingly support the proposed State Police Bill? The purpose of this interview is to enlighten Nigerians on what the Senate passed before we proceeded on recess. The bill was an Executive Bill sponsored by President Bola Tinubu after extensive…

A dispute over alleged destruction of farmland by grazing cattle has left one person dead and another injured in Beji, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. The incident involved a Gbagi farmer and a Fulani herder, according to community sources. A source who seeks anonymity explained that the farmer was working on his farmland when he noticed cattle grazing on his crops. He reportedly confronted the herder and chased the animals away. However, the cattle allegedly returned to the farm, leading to another confrontation. The source said the disagreement later turned violent after the herder allegedly drew a sword.…

After losing roughly $1 trillion in market value in less than two months, Nvidia Corp.’s stock is the cheapest it’s been since before the AI boom kicked off and sent the shares into the stratosphere.

The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of open-source large language models to run on a variety of chips — including Nvidia’s, AMD’s, Google’s TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. With ZML/LLMD, the newly launched LLM inference server, the company’s ambition is to break existing silos and make different chips available for AI use cases at their maximum available speed, and sometimes faster, ZML founder Steeve Morin told…