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Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to 3B at a 12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach 1.5B+ — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider bac

SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028 The first CPU built for agents is going t

Reuters: Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export AI servers to China — Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had i

arXiv:2608.21343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contextualization is essential for production automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, where user-provided phrases must be recognized accurately un

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its fully autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they're widely available on resale markets — Th

New York Times: Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia — An attack by what Ukrainian offi

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The

arXiv:2606.13629v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: There is a proliferation of work arguing for the use of synthetic data in scientific research. For example, social scientists are arguing for

Very interesting new paper from NVIDIA. (bookmark it) It takes a closer look at evaluating agent skills. Enterprise teams are starting to leverage shared skill libraries, and the review gate is typica

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Ver

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at 30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff — Nvidia is discussing

NVIDIA built its own coding harness to optimize CUDA GPU kernels and achieved a 100% score on ARC-AGI-3’s 25 public games, solving all 183 levels. With agents, we'll move from a world where it's quite

Bloomberg: Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s bigge

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a

arXiv:2608.19758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, partic

AdaptGrow is a GPU‑accelerated matrix‑factorization framework that transforms rolling correlation or tail‑dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor loadings, and structural‑break signals for

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS is a Dynamic Power Software (DPS) solution that reallocates power in real time across racks and GPUs to maximize performance per watt while operating within fixed facility limits. By

NVIDIA’s Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) architecture delivers a frontier‑level general‑purpose agent by integrating persistent memory, supervision, and tool use within the system harness rather tha

Rashika Singh / Reuters: Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a m

arXiv:2608.19639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming reconstruction of Free-Viewpoint Videos (FVVs) supports immersive Internet of Things (IoT) services, such as telepresence and digital twin vis

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition — Nvidia Corp. is i

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a 250M extension, at a 2.3B valuation, to its March 170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested 25M — Starcloud, a startup developing s

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised 250 million in funding at a 2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was joined

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up

arXiv:2608.19231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating large and simulation-intensive discrete choice models (DCMs) requires repeated evaluation of utilities, probabilities, derivatives, and sim

Recent frontier‑AI incidents show agents can bypass intended restrictions, underscoring the need to embed security controls at the runtime and infrastructure layers of an AI agent stack rather than wi

A milestone for our infrastructure: our first NVIDIA Vera Rubin racks are here and now running our training stack. This is an important step as we expand compute that powers OpenAI's next generation o

AI bull reluctantly acknowledging some cracks in the story Over the past week, we are seeing some early cracks in our GPU availability data...not going to overreact but have to call balls and strikes.

It’s a new way into the cloud. GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from the browser, starting today. Whether on a

arXiv:2608.18388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Depth Anything V4 (DAV4), a framework for dynamic 4D scene reconstruction from monocular video. Our key contribution is the application of Ri

arXiv:2608.18832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-driven lip synchronization manipulates the mouth region of a talking-face video to match the driving audio while preserving head pose, identity, a

arXiv:2608.18147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive stochastic quantization (ASQ) is a recently introduced quantization approach that optimizes the Mean Squared Error (MSE) for a given input wh

Generative recommenders (GRs) replace traditional embedding‑based methods with transformer‑style sequence models like HSTU and Semantic IDs, addressing scalability, cold‑start, and long‑tail issues in

arXiv:2608.18503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing demand for AI-driven workloads, particularly from Large Language Models (LLMs), has raised concerns about the significant energy and resourc

Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising 90 million in a seed funding round t

arXiv:2608.18921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LRM-DoS methods rely heavily on model feedback to synthesize attack queries, requiring either repeated queries to the target model or trainin

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules — Nvidia

Newcomer: Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive 6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a 1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers — EXCLUSIVE TO NEWCOMER: Poolsi

arXiv:2608.18149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-aware LLM serving requires comparing configurations under realistic request shapes, yet exhaustive target-GPU profiling is costly and a cheap p

arXiv:2608.19125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an expert corrects an LLM assistant's error, the correction usually dies with the session, and the error class returns. I argue this is an operatio

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia — Alphabet Inc.'

arXiv:2602.19816v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For computational efficiency, modern language models are typically trained on independently sampled fixed-length sequences. Symbolic music lan

arXiv:2608.17515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being applied to Software Engineering (SE) tasks, achieving high accuracy across problems su

NVIDIA FLARE orchestrates federated multimodal AI training by supporting both full‑model and parameter‑efficient (adapter‑based) communication patterns, using large‑object externalization, tensor stre

The blog describes the iterative development of a real‑time endoscopic tool‑segmentation application using NVIDIA Holoscan, HoloHub, and an AI coding agent. Each cycle consisted of engineering-defined

arXiv:2608.17682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time novel view synthesis is dominated by rasterized explicit primitives. These projection-based pipelines provide high throughput but require spec