Oliver Zhou
- Common Gap connects high school graduates with startup jobs for paid gap year experiences.
- The program targets ambitious teens interested in taking a year off before or during college.
- Startups will pay gap year takers at least $75,000 annually, with some offers exceeding $100,000.
The college application season is well underway, and high school
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- Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal signals an important shift in the AI market.
- AI workloads are moving from model training to real-time inference as the main focus.
- Specialized inference chips like Groq's LPUs offer speed and efficiency over traditional GPUs.
For years, Nvidia's rise has been synonymous with one idea: GPUs are the engine of
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- Microsoft is reshuffling teams to bolster its GitHub software development platform.
- It's part of a plan to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding tools, recent meeting audio shows.
- GitHub faces new AI rivals such as Cursor and Claude Code as developer preferences shift.
Microsoft wants to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding rivals and

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Generative AI platforms, AI assistants, AI-powered everything can be found at CES 2026.
But, the best AI use cases I've come across at the show are more practical applications of AI, like the RocX camera from a startup called Farseer.
The RocX is a long-distance view AI tracking camera. AI-tracking systems for cameras are really starting to take off lately. AI tracking basically enables cameras to

Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, using a NASA telescope to watch the superheated gas race through space and slam into its surroundings.
The new study using the Chandra X-ray Observatory tracks how different parts of the shockwave slow down in different directions, turning this 400‑year‑old relic into a laboratory for how supernovas work.
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