Nvidia chip smuggling case
Nvidia staff detained in Taiwan for alleged chip smuggling to China.
NvidiaNvidia Staff Detained by Taiwan in China Chip Smuggling Case
Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia Corp. employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, thrusting the US company into a high-profile case concerning the black market for its products.
OpenAI Close to Landing $500 Billion Data Center With Backing From Nvidia
The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
Anthropic’s Amodei Rejects Open Model Ban But Calls for Testing
Silicon Valley leaders, including Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, are warning against a broad government crackdown on open-weight artificial intelligence systems as a response to a breakthrough Chinese AI model that’s challenged US leadership in the technology.
Nvidia signs deal to deploy edge AI on future Moon missions — laying the groundwork for a permanent human home in space
Nvidia will provide the backbone to Lunar Outpost, a company dedicated to in-space infrastructure and extra-terrestrial economy.
AMD's Venice is the first 2nm x86 server chip, but the stack doesn't fully ship until 2027
AMD's Zen 6 Venice EPYC is a 2nm, 256-core, 512-thread juggernaut which comes into play at the same time as Nvidia is gunning for the data center CPU market.
Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and agents. Nvidia points to the recent security incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, noting that whe
Apple Regains Spot Over Nvidia as Most Valuable Public Company
The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.
Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing. The reason such a guarantee is needed is straightforward: OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia Forms Alliance to Back Open-Source A.I. Amid Debate Over Safety
The company is continuing to back A.I. systems that can be freely used by others amid a continuing debate over the use of Chinese-made technology.
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of a long-term partnership. Neither side disclosed the figure. What the money buys […] This story continues at The Next Web
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. For OpenAI, a deal would be the first step toward controlling its own
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” on Friday. Over the weekend OpenAI, Google and SpaceX added their names, […] This story continues at The Next Web
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat those models as assets rather than hazards. Its founding anecdote is the reason it exists. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia Makes ‘Substantial’ Investment in Sutskever’s Startup
Nvidia Corp. said it has made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety […]
NVIDIA launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' initiative to improve cyber defense
NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with the aim to improve cybersecurity.
Nvidia’s $750 Billion Deals Revive Fear of AI Circular Financing
Nvidia Corp. is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, accelerating a streak of investments that skeptics warn is artificially inflating demand and valuations across the industry.
Nvidia in Talks to Back OpenAI Lease of SoftBank US Data Center
Nvidia Corp. is in discussions to provide a financing guarantee to help OpenAI lease computing from a US data center project planned for 2028, underscoring how the world’s most valuable company is funneling capital into the infrastructure that drives its business.
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in Naver and Expand SK Group Accord
Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, adding to a frenzy of deals by the world’s most valuable company.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' of Open-Weight Models
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose "premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models, warning that broad limits could "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." CNBC reports: They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands." "Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe:
Nvidia reveals deep dive into what makes Vera CPU tick — with the super-powered Olympus core promising huge performance increases and more
Nvidia reveals deepest Vera CPU disclosure yet: 88 custom Olympus cores with internally measured SPEC CPU 2026 numbers that show it winning against rivals.
The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, Palantir, IBM, Andreessen Horowitz, Hugging Face, Mozilla and the Linux […] This story continues at The Next Web
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Nvidia, Microsoft Lead Call for Open-Weight AI Models After Kimi
A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models, positioning it as key to ensuring the US maintains technological leadership.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
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Nvidia GPU prices might be on the rise again — and it makes RTX 3090 dual-GPU setups like this more appealing than ever
Rumors suggest Nvidia GPU prices may be increasing soon, and it's exactly why spare PC hardware parts are important.
AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots
AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging
Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits behind its data-centre chips. The agreement, announced on 23 July, pushed Amkor shares up by roughly 12% in after-hours trading. Packaging is the least glamorous stage of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia's latest trick for cooling its data center hardware is... hot water? 'Hot liquid cooling' is warmer than a hot tub, but apparently does the job pretty well
Nvidia's newest AI servers are cooled by water hotter than a hot tub: 45°C going in, 55°C coming out, while skipping out on fans altogether
Nvidia Signs $1.5 Billion Accord With Amkor for Chip Packaging
Nvidia Corp. signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Amkor Technology Inc. to help bolster the company’s chip packaging facilities, part of a broader push to expand semiconductor operations in the US.
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, the Helios server rack that packs 72 of those chips into a single system, and the Venice […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD Unveils New Products in Pursuit of $2 Trillion Market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced a raft of new products for data centers that it said will outperform those from rival Nvidia Corp., aiming to make gains in a booming market for artificial intelligence computing.
Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months
Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference, and claims to do it far better. On Thursday the bet got a lot more money behind it. The startup raised $300 million in a Series C round that values it at $10.3 billion. Sequoia led […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Our nation depends on our men and women who fight on the front lines’: Nvidia donates DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to US Naval Postgraduate School to train AI leaders, run high-fidelity simulations, and create naval digital twin environments
The supercomputer will now be used across a range of applications, from simulations and digital twins, to weather prediction and cybersecurity
Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea is borrowed from large language […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on American models to do it. Kratsios directs the White House Office of Science and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school
Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the American military, and the company donated it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia tries again to get gamers to accept DLSS 5 — and doesn't entirely succeed
Nvidia shows how DLSS 5 gives developers control — but many gamers remain skeptical and accusations of 'Slopvidia' abound.
White House Official Says Moonshot Accessed Banned Nvidia Chips
A White House official accused China’s Moonshot of improperly using US AI models and Nvidia Corp. chips to create the Kimi K3 system that stunned the tech industry last week with its advanced capabilities.
OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington
The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips
Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assembling Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips. The site held its grand opening on 21 July, and Nvidia says it is the first place the GB300 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google's Cloud Revenue Converges to NVIDIA's Growth Rate
Google Cloud reported 82% YoY growth to $24.8b in Q2 2026, began recognizing revenue from TPU system sales delivered to customer data centers, expanded operating margin to 35.6%, & grew backlog to $514b, with its growth rate converging toward NVIDIA's Data Center segment.
Leaving Apple, Intel, and Nvidia in the dust? Huawei could join Samsung as the only tech firms producing its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM
Only Samsung currently makes its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM, but Huawei may be quietly building its own alternative.
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […] This story continues at The Next Web