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What’s New Today: NVIDIA is building a new location verification technology where the software is reportedly designed to allow customers to track a chip’s overall computing performance.
Fast-Track Insights: Trendtracker, a Ghent-based AI company offers an advanced AI-driven intelligence tool that monitors global signals, understands their context, and shows how changes affect strategy.
Here’s a quick rundown of the biggest tech headlines making waves today. Let's dive into the top tech stories, from NVIDIA chip tracking software to Bitcoin price this week.
NVIDIA has created a software-based way to verify the location of its AI GPUs. By measuring the time it takes for communication between the chip and NVIDIA's servers, this system will be able to approximate where in the world a chip is located. This location verification system is intended to allow data centres to better utilise the 'confidential computing' features of NVIDIA GPUs, which will first be integrated within the newly launched 'Blackwell' generation GPU's. The initiative is designed to help combat the unlawful exportation and transportation of high-quality AI hardware to export-restricted areas.
The giant global companies are often left behind by the fast-paced political, economic, and technological changes and the classic strategy cycles cannot accommodate them. Trendtracker, which is a scale-up company located in Ghent, has $7 million in Series A funding to develop a continuously operating, AI-based platform that will monitor global signals, interpret context, and make predictions about the impact of these trends on businesses and governments.
Indian Railways has launched a massive recruitment drive for 1,20,579 posts that were announced for 2024 and 2025, including positions like Assistant Loco Pilots, Technicians, Junior Engineers, RPF personnel, paramedical staff, NTPC, and Level-1 posts. Currently, 59,678 posts have gone through the first (or single-stage) Computer-Based Test, and selection panels for more than 23,000 candidates, many in safety-critical roles, have been completed.
By 2026, artificial intelligence is expected to have transitioned from simple software utility to true autonomy as an agency within organisations and society. Examples include agentic AI that can now manage entire workflow processes, specialised models for specific tasks/industries that perform better than traditional general purpose AI models, and the rise of multimodal systems which allow users to seamlessly communicate using speech/voice recognition and written text.
In the morning session of the Asian market, Bitcoin dropped approximately 2.3%, which brought its price to about $90,120, while the stock markets in the region went up after the Fed’s third consecutive 25-basis-point rate cut. The markets greeted the Fed's easing as helpful for the risk assets, but on the other hand, caution prevailed: investors were informed that the Fed forecasts just one more rate cut in 2026.
