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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects to generate $1T+ from its Blackwell and Rubin chips through the end of 2027, after previously forecasting $500B by 2026's end  —  Nvidia Corp., the company at the center of an explosive build-out of AI computing, expects to generate at least $1 trillion …
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Nvidia announces the Nvidia Groq 3 LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 Groq 3 LPUs and 128GB of on-chip SRAM, available in H2 2026  —  Nvidia announced Monday at GTC 2026 that its new Groq-based inference server rack will be available alongside the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack …
Richard Leadbetter / Digital Foundry:
Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs  —  At its GTC 2026 event, Nvidia has revealed the next generation of DLSS.  DLSS 5 isn't a frame-rate, frame generation or performance enhancing technology.
Tobias Mann / The Register:
Nvidia unveils a server rack with 256 Vera CPUs, with each CPU featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory for up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth  —  GTC Intel and AMD take notice.  At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems.
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A recording of Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California
Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics:
Nvidia unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin for orbital data centers, saying its GPU delivers up to 25x more AI compute for space-based inferencing compared to the H100
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Nebius says Meta plans to spend up to $27B over the next five years to access AI infrastructure, starting with $12B of capacity in early 2027; NBIS jumps 12%+  —  Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to artificial intelligence infrastructure …
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro  —  Apple today acquired MotionVFX, a major developer of plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro.  —  MotionVFX is a Polish software company founded by Szymon Masiak in 2009.
Apple:
Apple unveils the $549 AirPods Max 2, with an H2 chip, up to 1.5x more effective ANC, studio-quality audio recording, and camera remote, shipping in early April  —  Powered by H2, AirPods Max are better than ever with more effective ANC, enhanced sound quality, and new features like Adaptive Audio and Live Translation
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI faced intense backlash from its advisory council over a planned ChatGPT “adult mode”, delayed earlier in March due to technical and other issues  —  Warnings surface that the company risks creating a ‘sexy suicide coach’ if it begins allowing sexually explicit chats
Horace Dediu / Asymco:
As AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90%+ of their cash flow, may be a genius move  —  The 3rd? most valuable company on Earth watched as its rivals lit $650 billion on fire and did nothing.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
A group of Tennessee teenagers sues xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed  —  Three plaintiffs, two of whom are minors, accuse xAI of distribution, possession and production with intent to distribute child pornography.
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies  —  OpenAI is in advanced talks with private equity firms including TPG (TPG.O), Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Z.ai launches GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source, faster, and cheaper variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent-driven workflows and OpenClaw-style tasks  —  Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for its powerful, open source GLM family of large language models (LLMs), has introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a new …
Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's help, which would make it China's second chipmaker with such tech, after SMIC  —  China's Hua Hong Group has developed advanced chip manufacturing technologies that can be used to produce artificial intelligence chips …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it  —  Just a few months after Warren Buffett convened a series of high-end dinners across America to collect signatures for something called …
Washington Post:
GovAI and Brookings: many of the people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs, as researchers disagree over AI's impact  —  No one has a perfect road map to the future, but researchers at GovAI, which studies technology policy, and the Brookings Institution …

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