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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 … | 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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| 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.| 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 …
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| Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
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| Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
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| NVIDIA on YouTube: |
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| Manus: |
Manus introduces My Computer, a desktop application that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and applications — 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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| 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.
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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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| 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
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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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| 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.
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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 … | 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 …
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| Stacy Jones / Decrypt: |
Digital asset wealth management platform Abra plans to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger with New Providence at a $750M pre-money valuation — Abra Financial Holdings, the San Francisco-based digital asset wealth management platform, said Monday it will go public through a business combination … | 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
More: Ars Technica, Futurism, CNET, Pivot to AI, New York Magazine, Decrypt, New York Post, The Decoder, and Firstpost
| 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 …
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| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025 — Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised $21 million in Series A funding …
More: Ironlight Markets, LLC, Crypto Briefing, Blockonomi, The Block, and Cointelegraph. LinkedIn: Greg Braca
| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Alibaba unveils Alibaba Token Hub, a new AI unit that consolidates research, consumer-facing apps, AI products, and more, as it focuses on monetizing AI — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is setting up a business unit to bring its sprawling AI services and development endeavors under a single umbrella … Sponsor Posts
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