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Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark

NVIDIA announces EA, Embark, and Ubisoft titles plus anti-cheat and visual upgrades for RTX Spark ahead of launch at Gamescom.

NVIDIA is promoting RTX Spark at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, with Electronic Arts, Embark, and Ubisoft bringing blockbuster PC titles to the platform ahead of its launch. The announcement covers new game support, anti-cheat technologies, and increased visual quality. The piece is a product-marketing update rather than security research or AI safety news.

NVIDIA Blog · 22d agoAI industry

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

NVIDIA struck a $12B deal with AI coding startup Poolside, licensing its Model Factory and hiring 109 of its technical employees.

NVIDIA spent roughly $12B in an unusual reverse-execuhire of Poolside, licensing the company's Model Factory while hiring 109 of its ~115 technical staff; founders retain a $1B stake and employees receive about $6B. Poolside had raced to raise $2B to fund a 40,000 GB300 cluster after missing a six-week funding window, and founders argue frontier-scale training now requires an order of magnitude more compute plus contracted data center space. An infrastructure arm spun out in January 2026 is scaling toward 7GW as a neocloud. The newsletter also recaps OpenAI and Anthropic agent-platform releases.

Latent Space · 27d agoAI industry

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

NVIDIA, Indosat, and Universitas Gadjah Mada opened Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center in Yogyakarta to build local AI talent.

The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA, and Universitas Gadjah Mada launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta. It is Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center, established under the country's AI Center of Excellence initiative. The center aims to develop local AI talent and strengthen Indonesia's domestic AI capabilities.

NVIDIA Blog · Aug 14, 2026AI industry

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

Salesforce unveiled Koa, its first CRM reasoning model post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, announced during Jensen Huang's Dreamforce keynote.

At Salesforce Dreamforce, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined Marc Benioff onstage as Salesforce announced Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super using NeMo RL, NeMo Gym, and NeMo AutoModel. Koa was fine-tuned on a proprietary synthetic dataset drawn from nearly three decades of enterprise CRM deployments across 14+ industries, with no customer data used in training or inference. On Salesforce's CRM Bench of real-world tasks, Koa matches or exceeds leading model performance on CRM actions with 3x fewer errors. Koa already powers an employee agent in Slack, enters customer pilots in October with Formula 1, UChicago Medicine, Baxter Credit Union, 1-800Accountant, Engine, and Xero, and reaches general availability in Winter 2026 in U.S. regions.

NVIDIA Blog · 1d agoAI industry

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Trump 'we're not going to let an AI slowdown happen,' rejecting Amodei's call to slow AI capability gains.

During the All-In Summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live speakerphone call from President Donald Trump and agreed 'we're not going to let' an AI slowdown happen, countering Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI capability improvements, which Elon Musk and Sam Altman have endorsed. Trump called the slowdown sentiment 'a hoax' that could benefit political actors or China. Gallup polling shows seven in 10 Americans oppose local data center construction, with over 50% citing environmental resource concerns.

TechCrunch · AI · 2d agoAI industry

Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack

Apple's John Ternus becomes CEO as Tim Cook steps down; Nvidia expands across the AI stack while a16z launches a $1.1B Machine Age fund.

Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, with Cook staying as Executive Chairman focused on policy relationships. TechCrunch's Equity podcast also unpacks Nvidia's moves to own the entire AI stack, including its Hugging Face acquisition, a MediaTek investment, and deeper compute deals. Other items include robotaxi competition (Tesla Cybercab, Waymo expansion, Zoox paid rides), Andreessen Horowitz's new $1.1 billion 'Machine Age' fund, and the $285 million GoPro acquisition.

TechCrunch · AI · 12d agoAI industry

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia reportedly plans to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion, consolidating control over critical open-model infrastructure.

Ars Technica reports, citing a report, that Nvidia will acquire Hugging Face, the leading repository and hosting platform for open AI models, for approximately $13 billion. The deal would place widely used open-model infrastructure under Nvidia's control as demand for open models grows. The transaction is reported and not yet confirmed by the companies in this text.

Ars Technica · AI · 20d agoAI industry

Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now

NVIDIA's Vera CPU, its first processor built for AI agents, is now shipping at scale to partners across the AI ecosystem.

NVIDIA announced that Vera, its first CPU designed specifically for agentic AI workloads, has begun shipping at scale. Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck is hand-delivering early Vera CPU systems to organizations across the AI ecosystem, signaling full production availability of the data-center processor.

NVIDIA Blog · 21d agoAI industry

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work

NVIDIA deploys OpenAI's ChatGPT Work internally to cut manual tasks and scale successful workflows across global teams.

OpenAI published a customer story describing how NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work in day-to-day operations. The company reportedly uses the product to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and replicate successful workflows globally. The piece functions as enterprise adoption marketing rather than a product or model release.

OpenAI News · Aug 18, 2026AI industry

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor's 2026 Best CEOs list with 99% employee approval.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang topped Glassdoor's 2026 Best CEOs ranking, which is based directly on employee reviews. The listing cites 99% employee approval of his leadership at the leading AI chipmaker. The ranking is a reputation signal rather than a business or product event.

NVIDIA Blog · Aug 12, 2026AI industry

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

NVIDIA partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure financing.

NVIDIA announced partnerships with major financial firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The independent financing platforms are designed to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital to support AI infrastructure buildout. NVIDIA frames the move as positioning AI factory compute as an investable asset class.

NVIDIA Blog · Aug 12, 2026AI industry1

Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

Nvidia rejects 'circular financing' criticism, claiming every $1 it invests yields $100 in returns amid a falling stock price.

Nvidia publicly dismissed concerns that its AI ecosystem investments amount to 'circular financing', asserting that each $1 it invests generates roughly $100 in value. The statement comes as Nvidia's share price continues to decline. The story drew moderate discussion on Hacker News with 34 points and 25 comments.

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

The Economist's interactive briefing argues Nvidia functions as AI's central bank, controlling the compute supply underpinning the industry's growth.

An Economist interactive briefing titled 'Nvidia is the central bank of AI' examines the chipmaker's dominant control over AI compute supply. The link drew 45 points and 23 comments on Hacker News. The listing provides only engagement metrics, with the full analysis hosted on the Economist's site.

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeno custom inference chip claiming 1.5-1.9x better perf-per-watt than NVIDIA GB200/GB300, deploying in-house by year-end.

At the 37th Hot Chips conference, OpenAI published first benchmark details for its custom Jalapeno inference chip, claiming 1.5-1.9x more work per watt, 1.7-3.6x lower end-to-end latency, and 2.1-4.1x higher interactive-workload performance versus NVIDIA GB200/GB300, with the 700W-rated part staying at or below 550W in tests. Deployment into OpenAI's own infrastructure begins by year-end, with Gen 2 deep in development and Gen 3 underway. OpenAI also said GPT-Astra and Codex helped write low-level kernels, reportedly 1.5-1.8x faster than human-expert code for selected attention and MoE blocks. Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX and Apple M6 were also featured at the conference.

Latent Space · 21d agoAI industry

NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory

NVIDIA expands NVLink Fusion with NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory for hyperscalers building trillion-parameter and agentic AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced that NVLink Fusion will expand to support NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory option. The offering targets hyperscalers and AI innovators building next-generation systems where agentic AI and trillion-parameter workloads are mainstream. NVIDIA frames the announcement around co-designing compute, memory, storage, networking, and software as a unified system.

NVIDIA Blog · 21d agoAI industry

Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

NVIDIA claims Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers up to 30x more work per watt, citing OpenRouter data that agentic workloads use 15x more tokens than chat.

NVIDIA positions the Vera Rubin NVL72 as a new efficiency standard for AI agents, claiming up to 30x more work per watt. The company cites OpenRouter data showing agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request, using a financial-research agent example that spawns sub-agents and multiple tool calls. The piece is largely a product efficiency narrative rather than independent benchmarking.

NVIDIA Blog · 23d agoAI industry

AI labs have a data trust problem that their policies haven't solved

Nvidia, Palantir, and Booz Allen restrict Anthropic's Fable over data-retention distrust, exposing gaps in AI labs' customer data policies.

Nvidia limits Anthropic's Fable to non-sensitive work and runs its own Nemotron models for internal tasks, while Palantir blocks Fable deployment until Anthropic grants irrevocable zero-data-retention guarantees, and Booz Allen bans it for proprietary cybersecurity work. John Schulman and researcher Sarah Hooker explain that labs can still extract customer IP from metadata, user traces, and synthetic data even under zero data retention. The trust crisis crystallized around Tristan Buckmaster's accusation that OpenAI's Codex absorbed his Navier-Stokes drafts, though OpenAI later stated his prompts could not have influenced its model.

The Decoder · 1d agoAI industry

Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips

Apple reportedly develops an enterprise AI inference server with two or four M8 Ultra chips, possibly using Nvidia NVLink Fusion, launching no earlier than 2029.

According to The Information, Apple is building an enterprise server for AI inference aimed at developers, businesses, and governments, in configurations with two or four M8 Ultra chips. Apple is considering Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect, and the project, backed by new CEO John Ternus, could still be cancelled. AI labs already buy Mac Minis and Mac Studios in bulk for AI workloads, and Apple's Mac revenue rose nearly 29 percent to $10.4 billion last quarter.

The Decoderupdated · 15h agofirst · 19h agoAI industry 3 sources

Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

At the All-In conference, Nvidia's Jensen Huang took a live Trump call dismissing AI safety fears while flaunting Apple's unreleased $1,999 foldable phone.

At the All-In conference in L.A., Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang answered a live on-stage call from President Trump using Apple's unreleased foldable phone, which hits stores in five weeks at $1,999. During the call, Trump and Huang agreed that fears about AI safety amount to what Trump called a 'hoax,' with Trump claiming the AI panic benefits China and 'political people' and arguing the technology is 'bigger than the internet.' Nvidia stock is up 33% over the past year but fell a few percentage points on the day. The article notes Apple now depends on Nvidia hardware to run part of Apple Intelligence, a decade after dropping Nvidia chips from its devices.

TechCrunch · AI · 2d agoAI industry

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

System76 launches the Thelio Mira AI Linux workstation from $3,299 with dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs and 192 GB GPU memory for local AI workloads.

System76's Thelio Mira AI is a locally built (Denver, Colorado) Linux workstation for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference, starting at $3,299. Configurations go up to a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs delivering 192 GB of (ECC) GPU memory with liquid cooling, dual PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, and up to three M.2 NVMe drives. It ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu and is positioned as a way to avoid recurring cloud GPU costs.

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

British AI compute provider Nscale seeks $3.5B pre-IPO via $1.5B convertible notes and $2B from Nvidia ahead of a possible September IPO.

Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded about two years ago, is reportedly in talks to raise $3.5 billion ahead of an IPO that could come as early as late September 2026: $1.5 billion in convertible notes plus $2 billion in financing from Nvidia. Nvidia previously joined Nscale's $1.1 billion Series B in March, led by Aker and billed as the largest Series B in European history, following a $155 million Series A in December 2024. Nscale recently signed an approximately $45 billion deal with Anthropic and has told investors it has roughly $103 billion in projected revenue based on signed customer leases.

TechCrunch · AI · 12d agoAI industry

GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026

NVIDIA announced Gamescom 2026 GeForce NOW updates: DLSS 4.5 controls, new Steam device support, GOG single sign-on, Firefox access, and more cloud games.

At Gamescom 2026, NVIDIA announced expanded support for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, including new Steam devices, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser access, and more big PC games coming to the cloud. The company also introduced new NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls that let members fine-tune gameplay. The announcements are consumer gaming product news rather than security or research developments.

NVIDIA Blog · 21d agoAI industry

Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses

Snap unveiled new features for its $2,200 Specs smart glasses, including an anticipatory AI system and enterprise partnerships with Amazon, Salesforce, and Nvidia.

At a Los Angeles event, Snap showcased updates for its Specs smart glasses, which launched earlier in 2026 at $2,200 to a mixed reception. The headline announcement was Specs Intelligence, an "anticipatory AI" system that builds an understanding of user goals and routines and works with iPhones and Macs independently of the glasses. Snap also launched Specs for Enterprise with partnerships including Amazon, Salesforce, and Nvidia, an NBA/WNBA AR training app, and a Verizon cellular connectivity package costing $10/month for Verizon customers and $20/month otherwise. The devices will ship later this fall after an October pop-up in Los Angeles.

Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone at All-In Summit, where Trump called AI fears a hoax and said robots won't take over.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit and broadcast it to the crowd. Trump dismissed recent AI development fears as a "hoax" and reassured the audience that "the robots will not be taking over," also claiming communities benefit financially from data centers. The remarks followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" arguing for slowing AI development.

The Verge · AI · 2d agoAI industry

[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over

Latent Space argues AI training pipeline stages—rewards, data, teachers, curricula, environments—are flipping from human-made to model-made simulation.

Latent Space's AINews essay traces how each component of AI training has turned synthetic since 2022: reward models (InstructGPT, RLAIF), synthetic pretraining data (Microsoft Phi, NVIDIA Nemotron-4 340B), model teachers (Alpaca, DeepSeek-R1 distillation), and self-generated curricula (Self-Rewarding Language Models, SPIN). In 2026 it highlights Karpathy's autoresearch loop—700 experiments yielding 20 kept improvements, cutting GPT-2 training time from 2.02 to 1.80 hours—and Z.ai's GLM-5.3 fully synthetic RL environment, judging, and verification stack. It frames these shifts as 'simulation': 10% worse but 100x cheaper and 10,000x faster than human equivalents.

Latent Space · 26d agoAI industry

[AINews] Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering

Andrew Ng relaunches DeepLearning.AI around AI Engineering, defining four core skills from an analysis of 10,000+ job postings and expert interviews.

Andrew Ng, cofounder of Google Brain and Coursera, relaunched DeepLearning.AI with a focus on AI Engineering, basing the curriculum direction on an analysis of over 10,000 job postings plus interviews and surveys. He identifies four key skills: building and deploying AI applications, software engineering fundamentals, effective use of coding agents, and shaping the build with product sense. The Latent Space AI News issue also recaps agent ecosystem developments, including NVIDIA's 'Skill Lift' evaluation proposal showing skill scan scores correlate only weakly (Spearman rho = 0.14) with judged quality, and Konwinski's open-source persistent-agent 'microharness' Headlong, which achieved an unattended self-debugging repair in 48 minutes.

Latent Space · 23d agoAI industry1

How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory

NVIDIA argues AI factories with custom XPUs and NVLink Fusion connectivity must optimize tokens-per-second, tokens-per-watt, cost and uptime.

NVIDIA published a blog explaining that AI factories running continuously are economically defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. It argues hyperscalers and AI-native companies building custom XPUs need infrastructure designed as a complete factory rather than collections of individual accelerators. The piece promotes NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion and full-stack XPU connectivity as the foundation for such world-class AI factory builds.

NVIDIA Blog · 23d agoAI industry