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The Information: Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest 2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus 1B more if it hits certain thresholds — Nvidia has agreed to i

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers — A key U

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it has agreed to buy Taalas Inc., a Toronto startup that hardwires artificial intelligence models directly into silicon, in a deal that pushes the chipmaker deep

Tobias Mann / The Register: AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum — Early tech demos show model

Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open letter arguing that AI leadership will be measured not by any single fron

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is 'essentially a smart speaker without a display' that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck,

Melissa Hancock / Fortune: Ooredoo, Nvidia, Nokia, and Indosat launch Zankore, Indonesia's first dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform; Ooredoo, which owns a 49% stake, commits $800M — Ooredoo Gr

Nichiket Sunil / Reuters: Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from 5.5B in April — Firmus said on Friday

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI cloud startup Volta Infra raised 300M led by a16z and Altimeter at a 2.4B valuation and says it landed a 10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer — Volta Infra Holdi

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by simply adding more storage capacity. What

Compute scarcity is not the only struggle AI teams face. Optimal utilization is also key. Friction also emerges when they outgrow informal coordination methods such as shared spreadsheets, manual SSH

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super is a publicly available 34‑billion‑parameter vision–language–action model that merges a 32‑B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner with a 2‑B action‑expert diffusion network. It produces uni

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling the

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanc

As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp. today announced it is open-sourcing the application programming interface for its powerful cuFile v

The Open Secure AI Alliance today proposed a set of guidelines for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving artificial intelligence agents, one week after the group was formed. The proposal is call

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta Infra, which says the deal is for six years — Anthropic PBC has struck a 1

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: London-based AI chip startup Olix raised 312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a 3.3B valuation, up from 1B+ after raising 220M in February — British ent

NVIDIA’s Vera BlueField‑4 STX Storage Processor combines an 88‑core Armv9.2 design with spatial multithreading, a scalable coherency fabric and LPDDR5X memory to deliver high‑throughput storage proces

GPU utilization can read healthy while your queue backs up, and a new replica takes minutes to warm. Here's how to pick autoscaling metrics, tune scale-up/down windows, and budget for cold starts on d

Data center builder Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Anyscale Inc., a venture-backed provider of artificial intelligence software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1 adds AV1 hierarchical reference mode supporting up to 31 B‑frames and efficient iterative tuning that delivers significant bitrate savings in CQ and VBR modes. It enhances

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies — Chinese AI c

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google C

Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all. With cloud gaming, everyday laptops used for class can also become GeForce RTX-powered gam

NVIDIA’s AI Red Team found common failure modes in enterprise AI agents: weak access controls, unrestricted code execution via tools, unprotected network egress, and exposure of plaintext secrets. The

NVIDIA’s Exemplar Cloud study shows that identical H100‑based clusters can yield 8–12 % lower training throughput when configuration gaps—at the kernel, hypervisor, BIOS or NCCL levels—prevent reachin

Enterprise AI infrastructure providers are turning to multi-tenancy paired with upstream data protection to convert idle GPU capacity into secure, token-metered services that enterprises will actually

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The

Artificial intelligence has propelled the cybersecurity world into a new phase, driven by startlingly advanced autonomous attacks and an urgent need to adopt technology to defend against them. This we

At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Lisa Su called her shot – just like Babe Ruth. The question now is whether AMD has built the engineering machine to hit it. Last week, we argued that AMD’s next reinventio

As the United States government debates new artificial intelligence rules and regulations, Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are drawing a line against blanket bans on open-weight models, urging regulato

Wall Street Journal: Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer f

Kalley Huang / New York Times: Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The comp

Healthcare robotics struggles with data scarcity, limited generalization to rare clinical scenarios, and slow prototyping due to the need for annotated demonstrations and costly experimental setups. N

As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this season’s standout accessory isn’t the latest designer purse — but what’s inside it. In a recent video, Guo, founder of

Applied Materials and NVIDIA have created an end‑to‑end digital development platform that unifies GPU‑accelerated tools (Ginestra, cuDSS, cuEST, PhysicsNeMo, Omniverso) with CUDA‑X libraries to accele

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly in talks to backstop a 250 billion loan for OpenAI Group PBC. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited sources as saying that the financing would cover the cost of a new data

The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating w

Nvidia Corp. said tonight it’s now running the chip design software its engineers are using to design the next generation of its graphics processing units, on its own silicon. It’s partnering with Cad

NVIDIA Ising Calibration 1.5 is a 31‑billion‑parameter vision‑language model that diagnoses and tunes quantum processors, delivering state‑of‑the‑art zero‑shot and in‑context learning on the QCalEval

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says it made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an “order of magnitude” — Par

The artificial intelligence competition is no longer between large language models, but rather between AI systems. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has shifted from being primarily a chip business to a sec

The performance of AI agents depends not only on the underlying models but also heavily on their “harness”—the surrounding architecture that supplies context, state management, action execution, and t

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest 5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about 3B in funding and was valued at 32B last year — Nvidia Corp. ha