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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects to generate $1T+ in sales from its flagship AI chips through the end of 2027, after previously forecasting $500B by 2026's end — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, addressing crowds at the company's biggest annual event …
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| 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Nvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls — At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open skills … | 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.| Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
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| 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.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo described plans to shift OpenAI's strategy around coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests” — A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by ‘side quests’ as the company plans shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses
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| Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral, to develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud — Locking in open source support — Nvidia has launched an open AI model development coalition, named Nemotron, and will provide compute.
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| Jacob Krol / TechRadar: |
How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation — The next-gen robot arrives at Disneyland Paris this month — It's been less than five months since Walt Disney Imagineering showed off …
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| Manus: |
Manus introduces My Computer, a Windows and macOS app that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and apps — Until today, Manus has lived entirely in the cloud. — The cloud sandbox has served Manus well. Inside an isolated, secure environment …
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| Mistral AI: |
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models — Today, we are announcing Mistral Small 4. This model is the next major release in the Mistral Small family.
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| Sam Clark / Politico: |
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies — Countries impose measures on Iranian, Chinese companies providing hacking services. — BRUSSELS — European Union countries …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A — In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something …
LinkedIn: Fuse
| 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.| Mia Dawkins / Bloomberg: |
The UK plans to spend £1B+ on quantum computing research over four years, including funding companies in pharmaceuticals, financial services, and energy — The UK will spend more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) on quantum computing research over the next four years … | Financial Times: |
Sources: KKR, Blackstone, and other investors have turned down some data center debt because of insufficient insurance against risks like natural disasters — Lack of sufficient cover means some investors are walking away from deals — Lenders looking to fund the build-out of data centres … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary sue OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models — Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing their reference materials …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says memory chip makers are expanding capacity but are unlikely to match demand until around 2030; basic wafer supply lags by 20%+ — A global shortage of memory chips is likely to persist another four to five years because of endemic constraints in semiconductor production …
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| Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico: |
Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review …
More: The Independent
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more — Today, I'm talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. — It's basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story …
Bluesky: @tyramaysue.com
| Arno Schütze / Bloomberg: |
Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024 — German fintech Upvest, which supplies brokerage technology to neobanks such as Revolut and to retail lenders …
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