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March 17, 2026, 7:05 AM
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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 …
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:
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
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.
Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:
Nvidia says game developers have full “artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material  —  The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
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
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.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Nvidia says BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform, and that Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis across 28 cities by 2028
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Reuters:
Sources: Google is in talks with Envicool and other Chinese companies about buying data center liquid cooling equipment, amid a tight supply of such parts  —  Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) is in talks with Envicool (002837.SZ) and other Chinese firms about buying liquid cooling equipment for data centres …
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 …
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From Mediagazer

Zoe Engels / Mediaite:
Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026

Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination

Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M

More News

Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal
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

Earlier Picks

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary sue OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models
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
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
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
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