AnitaB.org has called off this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, scheduled for Oct. 27-30 in Anaheim, citing registrations and sponsorship commitments that fell well below expectations and left the event unable to cover operating costs. CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson said the shortfall has also damaged the nonprofit's broader finances, and the organization is now reviewing strategic options and future programming. Attendees must cancel their own travel, refund status for fees and sponsorships remains unresolved, and employers with career-fair interviews have been asked to continue them independently where possible.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-14
AnitaB.org announced it is cancelling this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, which had been planned for Anaheim, California. The organization said individual registrations and sponsorship commitments fell well below expectations and below what was needed to cover operating costs. Registrants are being told to cancel their own travel and hotel bookings, and AnitaB.org said it will contact them about registration fee refunds by October 26.
anitab.org
· 2026-10-13
Mistral released Large 4, a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, in a research preview this week, with full weights due at the end of October. Independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis scored it 38 on its Intelligence Index, making it the top model from outside the US and China, though several Chinese open models including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored as high or higher overall. Large 4 scored 50 on Artificial Analysis's Cyber Index, tying GLM-5.3-Flash, and hit 82% on the CyberGym-E2E-AA cybersecurity test, its best individual result.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-09
Sosy and Grace Hachigian, a mother-daughter duo, launched MODA Mocktails in 2025 after struggling to find a store-bought mocktail with clean ingredients, strong flavor and a reasonable price. Grace, who worked as an associate brand manager at Nestlé USA, applied her consumer-marketing background to help build the brand, while Sosy leads the West Coast operations. The pair have personally invested roughly $500,000 into the business, which has already generated about $500,000 in revenue.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-08
Fast Company convened Alex Amouyel of Newman's Own Foundation, Sharon Prince of Grace Farms Foundation, and Les Szabo of Purpose Pledge for a discussion on modernizing corporate giving. Moderated by Morgan Brady, the panel examined how companies can move past conventional charity models to tackle systemic problems more directly. The conversation centered on the idea that effective philanthropy often requires risk-taking and challenging existing institutional structures.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-17
NASA says a precise SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch and flawless early course correction have left the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with enough propellant for at least 22 years of operations, more than double the mission's original five-year baseline plan. The $4.3 billion observatory launched August 30 from Kennedy Space Center and is now heading to its observation post to survey wide swaths of the sky with Hubble-level resolution.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-15
MIT Technology Review is hosting a live roundtable discussion examining claims from AI lab employees that advanced AI systems could pose an existential threat to humanity. The session, led by executive editor Niall Firth alongside senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins, will scrutinize the origins and credibility of these fears. It airs Tuesday, September 15 at 16:00 BST.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-11
NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, marking the first space telescope named after a woman. The mission, previously known as WFIRST, will study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets, continuing work in the field Roman helped establish as NASA's first chief of astronomy in 1959.
nature.com
· 2026-09-08
Nvidia has officially detailed its RTX Spark chip, branding it the N1X and confirming it will ship in laptops and mini PCs starting in October. The lineup includes a top config pairing a 20-core Grace CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, plus a lower-tier laptop-only version with 18 CPU cores, 5,120 CUDA cores, and up to 32GB of memory. Lenovo and Acer have already unveiled devices using the chip ahead of IFA Berlin, with more OEMs expected to follow.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
Lenovo has published detailed specifications for two Nvidia RTX Spark-based laptops: the Yoga Pro 9n clamshell and the Yoga 9n 2-in-1 convertible. Both use Grace CPUs with up to 20 cores and Blackwell RTX graphics with up to 6,144 cores, but differ in memory, storage type and screen size, with the Pro model offering higher-end specs overall.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia has detailed two variants of its Arm-based N1X chip that will power RTX Spark laptops arriving next month. The higher-end version pairs a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, while the scaled-down laptop version uses a 5120-core GPU, an 18-core CPU, and up to 32GB of memory. Devices from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI are expected to launch in October, alongside mini PCs like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-03
NASA is inviting people to sign up online for a personal 'pixel' from the first images captured by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each participant provides an email address, which is limited to one pixel per address, and later receives a printable certificate showing their assigned pixel number.
science.nasa.gov
· 2026-09-01
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