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Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding

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

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SMTrap: Cost-Effective DoS Attacks Against Large Reasoning Models via SMT Conflict Guidance

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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

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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 (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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

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 (Newcomer)

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

TokenPowerSandbox: Evidence-Gated CPU-First Screening for Energy-Aware LLM Serving

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

Tuning the Stochastic Machine: A Systems Engineer's Operating Model for Human-AI Engineering

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

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 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

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.'

Whole-Piece Training for Symbolic Music Language Models via Full-Horizon Compressed Recurrence

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

Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

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

Developing NVIDIA Holoscan Applications with CLI, Skills, and AI Coding Agents

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

Differentiable Voronoi Ray Tracing Beyond Rasterization Speeds

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

Evaluating AI Agent Skill Performance with NVIDIA SkillEvaluator

NVIDIA SkillEvaluator is an open‑source framework that measures how pre‑verified “skills” improve AI agent performance through static checks, distinctiveness analysis, and live task runs in isolated e

Great paper if you are building production-grade agents. It's a good way to understand what is actually incurring costs in your agents, whic…

Great paper if you are building production-grade agents. It's a good way to understand what is actually incurring costs in your agents, which involve more complex components and decisions. This works

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Hermes now leverages NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator on skill installs, checking for PII, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, licensing and security …

Hermes now leverages NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator on skill installs, checking for PII, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, licensing and security issues before you confirm. We pointed it at our own bundled

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Multi-Scale Spectral Attention Module-based Hyperspectral Segmentation in Autonomous Driving Scenarios

arXiv:2506.18682v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in autonomous driving (AD) have highlighted the potential of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) for enhanced environmental perception

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NeuroAbs: A Neuro-Symbolic RTL Abstraction Framework for Property Checking Acceleration

arXiv:2608.17304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal verification is a crucial technique for ensuring the functional correctness of hardware designs. In the context of property checking, a key cha

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Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat — Nvidia's massive head star

Parallel Branch Model Predictive Control on GPUs

arXiv:2506.13624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a GPU-based solver for trajectory planning problems using branch Model Predictive Control. Building on iterative LQR methods, we ad

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Picard Proximal Monte Carlo for Parallel Bayesian Imaging with Score-Based Generative Priors

arXiv:2608.17666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian imaging inverse problems often require sampling from high-dimensional posterior distributions. While recent score-based and diffusion models pr

rl-triton: High-Performance Triton GPU Kernels for Reinforcement Learning Credit Assignment

arXiv:2608.17641v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present rl-triton, an open-source library of high-performance GPU kernels for reinforcement learning credit assignment, implemented in Triton. The co

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Seeing is Free, Speaking is Not: Uncovering the True Energy Bottleneck in Edge VLM Inference

arXiv:2607.09520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are the perceptual backbone of embodied AI, but their energy footprint on edge hardware remains poorly understoo

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Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter (The Information)

The Information: Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter — Nvidia has discussed

Structured Driving-State Narratives for Small Language Model-Based GNSS Spoofing Detection

arXiv:2608.17092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on reliable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning. However, spoofed GNSS signals can induce plausible

AI inference chip startup Etched raised 700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a 21B valuation, up from 10.3B after raising 300M in July (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: AI inference chip startup Etched raised 700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a 21B valuation, up from 10.3B after raising 300M in July — Etched,

AlloEgo-VLM: Disambiguating Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.15605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates the challenge of ambiguity faced by Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in understanding spatial semantics. Spatial cognition, shaped

An automatic-differentiation framework for time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography inversion of hydrologic dynamics

arXiv:2608.14661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (TL-ERT) provides spatially distributed information on subsurface hydrologic changes. However, inversion of

BrainLinear: A Linear Model for Brain Network Analysis in Sparse Tangent Subspaces

arXiv:2608.15266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Functional connectome analysis examines brain-region interactions to understand and identify disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer'

Efficient Block-Layer Parallel Inference for Vision-Language-Action on Hybrid Architectures

arXiv:2608.14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remai

Every Expert Counts: ExactMoE for Memory-Efficient W4A16 Inference

arXiv:2608.15383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models reduce arithmetic by activating only a small subset of experts per token, yet deployment still requires

Global AI Regulations for FAIR and Ethics in High-Risk Use Cases: A Comparative Review

arXiv:2608.14562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI governance is shifting from voluntary ethics to enforceable, risk-based regulation, yet cross-jurisdictional divergence creates compliance uncertaint

How AI Coding Agents Can Unlock Materials Simulation with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Toolkit

NVIDIA’s ALCHEMI Toolkit delivers composable, PyTorch‑native GPU‑accelerated workflows for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling AI coding agents to generate robust simulation code

Inference chip startup Etched raises 700M more at 21B valuation

A few weeks after closing a 300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 700 million in funding. Investment firm Jane Street led the deal. It

Mojo🔥 is now open source

Mojo🔥 is now open source Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023. Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed

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On Fibonacci Ensembles: An Alternative Approach to Ensemble Learning Inspired by the Timeless Architecture of the Golden Ratio

arXiv:2512.22284v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nature rarely reveals her secrets bluntly, yet in the Fibonacci sequence she grants us a glimpse of her quiet architecture of growth, harmony,

Run Massive-Scale UMAP in Minutes Using Multiple GPUs—Without Losing Accuracy

NVIDIA cuML and cuVS now support multi‑GPU all‑neighbors kNN graph construction in UMAP, enabling end‑to‑end scaling of the dimensionality reduction algorithm to hundreds of billions of vectors. The i

Model Releases

SAGE-OR: Semi-supervised Adaptive Scene Graph Generation for Operating Rooms

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arXiv:2608.15336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current surgical scene graph generation methods depend on dense multi-modal supervision and specialized hardware (synchronized RGB-D sensors, calibratio

TERRA: A Hierarchical Parallel Training and Memory Orchestration Framework for High-Resolution AI-based Earth Modeling

arXiv:2608.15211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training high-resolution AI-based Earth forecasting models is memory-intensive. Window-based Swin Transformers reduce the quadratic cost of global atten

This is serious competition for NVDA. The startup says it took just 44 days after getting its test chips back from Taiwan Semiconductor Manu…

This is serious competition for NVDA. The startup says it took just 44 days after getting its test chips back from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to have them up and running inference workloads—th

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AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp.

Announcing AItonomy Foundation. We are PhD students and postdocs at Stanford, Princeton and Oxford, building a nonprofit research organizati…

Announcing AItonomy Foundation. We are PhD students and postdocs at Stanford, Princeton and Oxford, building a nonprofit research organization for AI4Science and Science4AI — and connecting early-care

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Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to 105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests 1.5B in SB Energy (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to 105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests 1.5B in SB Energy — Nvidia Corp. has agreed to spe

Model Releases

How many tokens/second output are you getting with Qwen3.8-27B?

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Trying to get a feel for where I stand. If you can list your relevant hardware and model used, that would be awesome. Here's mine: Model: Qwen3.8-27B-heretic-ara, Q5_K_M GGUF T/s: ~30-32 t/sec (I thin

LatentAM: Real-Time, Large-Scale Latent Gaussian Attention Mapping via Online Dictionary Learning

arXiv:2602.12314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present LatentAM, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) mapping framework that builds scalable latent feature maps from streaming RGB-D ob

MLCC: A Congestion Control Technique to Accelerate ML Training

arXiv:2402.09589v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present MLCC, a novel technique to augment today's congestion control algorithms to accelerate DNN training jobs in shared GPU clusters in

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC)

Tobias Burns / CNBC: Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations — Recent Securitie

Omni-LiveAvatar: Minute-Level Real-Time Streaming Joint Audio-Visual Avatar Generation

arXiv:2608.13602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint audio-video generative models serve as foundation for immersive and interactive digital-human generation. Nevertheless, most existing models rel

On theCUBE Pod: AI bubble debate heats up and neocloud earnings challenge doubters

The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research,

OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center — A