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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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| 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.
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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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
| 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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| 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.
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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 …
More: Metacurity, Council of the EU, The Cyber Express, and Cyber Daily
| 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.
More: The Decoder, Simon Willison's Weblog, TestingCatalog, and MarkTechPost
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems — Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup, on Tuesday announced a $71 million deal with the U.S. Navy to cut …
More: TechCrunch, Pittsburgh Business Journal, Breaking Defense, and Bloomberg
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Nebius plans to raise ~$3.75B in convertible debt to fund its data center expansion and to purchase customized AI chips, after its Meta deal — Artificial intelligence data center developer Nebius Group NV said it intends to raise about $3.75 billion in convertible debt …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and The Information
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible — Amazon said Tuesday it's starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the U.S., as the company continues to look for ways to satisfy impatient consumers.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is running early this week, as I had the chance to speak in person with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang …
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| 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 … | 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 …
More: DigiTimes, Blockonomi, The Korea Times, The Asia Business Daily, Reuters, Korea Joongang Daily, and Nikkei Asia. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Blockonomi and Tech Funding News
| 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 …
More: Sifted, Tech.eu, and EU-Startups
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is winding down sales of its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea and the US once it clears inventory, after just three months on the market — Samsung Electronics Co. is winding down sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after roughly three months on the market … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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