Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced Sunday that their new charity has partnered with the World Central Kitchen and its celebrity chef to feed the hungry in disaster-stricken areas around the world.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s non-profit group, the Archewell Foundation, is teaming up with celebrity chef Jose Andres to build a series of Community Relief Centers.
The centers will be permanent structures that can be opened quickly as service kitchens during emergencies such as natural disasters, and also serve as food distribution hubs, schools and medical clinics.
“The health of our communities depends on our ability to connect with our shared humanity,” said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in statement to the press. “When we think about Chef Andres and his incredible team at World Central Kitchen, we’re reminded that even during a year of unimaginable hardship, there are so many amazing people willing and working tirelessly to support each other.”
The first of four centers is slated to open in 2021 on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, which was hit by both Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017. The second center will be built in Puerto Rico, which was also hard hit by the storms.
The charity will seek support from other groups to build more such centers around the world.
The Duke and Duchess stepped down from their roles as working members of the royal family at the end of March and moved to California and have largely eschewed the public spotlight.
Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce partnership with food charity
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Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce partnership with food charity
Nvidia expands AI empire with Groq talent grab
- Under an agreement, Groq founder Jonathan Ross and other team members will join Nvidia to help develop and scale the Groq’s technology
- Nvidia’s domination of the AI training chip market has made it the world’s biggest company by market valuation, but it faces increasing competition
SAN FRANCISCO, California: Nvidia has hired the leadership of a promising AI chip startup, a statement said Wednesday, as the artificial intelligence giant expands its tech empire.
Chip maker Groq said the departure of its top executives was part of a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for its inference technology, as both companies seek to expand access to low-cost AI processing.
Under the agreement, Groq founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra, along with other team members, will join Nvidia to help develop and scale the Groq’s technology.
Nvidia’s domination of the AI training chip market has made it the world’s biggest company by market valuation, but it faces increasing competition in the inference segment from specialized startups like Groq.
AI inference refers to the process of running pre-trained AI models to make predictions or generate responses — such as when ChatGPT answers a user’s question or when an image recognition system identifies objects in a photo.
Groq will remain an independent company under new chief executive Simon Edwards, the firm said in a short statement.
The release of the statement shortly followed a report by CNBC that Nvidia was buying Groq outright for $20 billion, though a source close to the matter told AFP that no sale had taken place.
The arrangement resembles an “acquihire” — a practice increasingly common in Silicon Valley where larger tech companies poach key staff from smaller firms, leaving a small remnant of the company behind.
The practice is largely designed to evade the scrutiny of competition regulators that have become skittish about tech giants snapping up promising companies that stand a chance of becoming rivals.
Recent examples include Microsoft’s deal with AI startup Inflection AI in 2024, which saw co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and much of the team join Microsoft while the company remained independent.
Google has also made similar moves, bringing on teams from AI startups like Character.AI in 2024.
Meta’s 2025 deal to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to lead its new “superintelligence” AI lab is considered one of the biggest acquihires yet.
