Technology
NVIDIA describes NeMo Gym evaluation for a chip-design agent
In a development benchmark reported by NVIDIA, Siemens EDA cut agent turns from 155 to 53 while raising the composite verification score from about 55% to 95%.
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Business
Scorpio Gold reports 2.94 g/t over 36.42 metres at Manhattan
Nevada results cover eight holes; the company says true widths cannot be estimated from current information.
Energy
Five First Nations gain economic interest in Coastal GasLink
TC Energy said it closed an agreement with a First Nations investment partnership; it did not disclose the stake percentage or price.
Technology
Hugging Face introduces a llama.cpp app for Windows
Llama Windows is an open-source app for downloading open models from the Windows 11 tray and running them locally with llama.cpp.
Business
Nordique secures exchange approval for Kwyjibo rare-earth option
The Quebec project option could earn 60% and later 80% subject to conditions; the company also filed an amended preliminary assessment report.
Technology
NVIDIA describes agents rewriting Spark UDFs for GPU execution
NVIDIA reported that a Spark UDF rewrite cut operator time from 274.55 hours to 12.78 hours on one 600-billion-row workload at an unnamed consumer technology company.
Technology
NVIDIA reports lower air-traffic-control speech error after staged adaptation
NVIDIA said staged training reduced Nemotron ASR's word error rate from 77% to 22.46% on a two-hour ATCO2 test set.
Business
USDA opens rural water and waste technical-assistance grant applications
USDA announced on October 13 that two rural water and waste programs are taking applications through December 31, 2026. It expects approximately $4 million for Solid Waste Management Grants and approximately $35 million for Water and Waste Disposal Technical Assistance and Training Grants.
Business
USDA announces grants for 11 Wisconsin rural business projects
USDA Rural Development announced $1,024,615 in Rural Business Development Grants for 11 Wisconsin organizations on October 13. The awards support training, technical assistance, business planning and access to finance for rural entrepreneurs.
Technology
NVIDIA and Princeton introduce ReplaySSM to speed hybrid-model decoding
Researchers said ReplaySSM, which buffers state-space-model inputs, made decoding kernels 1.46–1.80 times faster across four models at batch size 256.
Energy
Irving Oil agrees to sell retail sites in Quebec and Ontario
Irving Oil announced a definitive agreement to sell Quebec and Ontario retail assets to Couche-Tard, covering 50 Quebec sites, two Ontario locations and fuel supply to 71 sites.
Business
USDA reports fiscal 2026 rural loans and grants in Texas
USDA Rural Development reported more than $1.2 billion in Texas loans and grants for fiscal 2026 on October 14. It presented the state figure as part of nearly $25 billion in nationwide rural investments announced by the agency.