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NVIDIA Blackwell Raises Bar in New InferenceMAX Benchmarks, Delivering Unmatched Performance and Efficiency

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NVIDIA Blackwell swept the new SemiAnalysis InferenceMAX v1 benchmarks, delivering the highest performance and best overall efficiency. InferenceMax v1 is the first independent benchmark to measure total cost of compute across diverse models and real-world scenarios. Best return on investment: NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 delivers unmatched AI factory economics — a $5 million investment generates $75
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European Financial Services Industry Goes All In on AI to Support Smarter Investments

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AI is already driving revenue increases for financial institutions — and with new investments in AI infrastructure and development across Europe, the region’s financial services industry is poised to mint even greater value from the technology. With sovereign AI models and agents built using AI factories, financial institutions and digital payment companies can extract powerful
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Germany Builds Its AI Autobahn With NVIDIA

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Germany is building on a long history of engineering innovation with new AI investments poised to transform the country’s economy — including the automotive, banking, manufacturing and robotics industries. The country is deploying tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to power AI factories that generate intelligence for businesses and researchers, optimized AI software to run
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Visa Makes Payments Personalized and Secure With AI

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Think tap to pay — but smarter and safer. Visa is tapping into AI to enhance services for its global network of customers, focused on fraud prevention, personalization and agentic commerce. Sarah Laszlo, senior director of Visa’s machine learning platform, joined the AI Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence is powering the next generation of
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The Finance Prof. Who Says Bitcoin’s Going to ‘Bite The Dust’ Is Wrong

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By CCN.com: Kevin Dowd is a Professor of Finance and Economics in the Business School at Durham University, Northeast England, and the co-author of the 2015 paper “Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust,” along with market analyst and author, Martin Hu…

The Finance Prof. Who Says Bitcoin’s Going to ‘Bite The Dust’ Is Wrong

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By CCN.com: Kevin Dowd is a Professor of Finance and Economics in the Business School at Durham University, Northeast England, and the co-author of the 2015 paper “Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust,” along with market analyst and author, Martin Hu…

Institutional Crypto Adoption Grows, But Will Big Banks Make a Splash in 2019?

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A top executive in the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) crypto division predicts that more institutional players will announce cryptocurrency projects this year. Henri Arslanian is fintech and crypto lead for PwC China and Hong Kong. He’s also the ch…

Bitcoin-Friendly Square Uses App and Algorithms to Issue Business Loans

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Payments company Square is moving into new markets by issuing business loans and will soon move to consumer lending. Its data collecting and analyzing algorithms are deciding creditworthiness letting borrowers arrange their loans in a few taps. Accordi…

Why Goldman Sachs Suddenly Starting Bitcoin Business is Unrealistic: SolidX

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According to Daniel H. Gallancy, the CEO of SolidX Partners, it was unrealistic to anticipate Goldman Sachs to run a Bitcoin business before the year’s end. Speaking to Bloomberg, Gallancy, who has been working with a major investment firm in VanEck to…