Nvidia commits to Amkor
Nvidia committed $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging.
NvidiaNvidia 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
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
Nvidia Touts Progress Getting New Rubin Design to Customers
Nvidia Corp., the semiconductor company at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, said its latest chip designs are making their way to customers and will help solidify the chipmaker’s leadership in the industry.
This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software
The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Backers include Touring Capital, Principal VC, executives at major […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI Engineering Productivity is Anything But Normal
AI engineering productivity outcomes cluster in three tiers: a mean of 20-46% from distributing an IDE, a frontier of 2.5-3x from companies building the operating layer around agents (Replit, NVIDIA, Amplitude, Anthropic), & a factory tier at 8x+ where agents operate as first-class organizational units (Nubank with Devin). The gap is not the model but the operating discipline built around it.
Nvidia is building the world's first 'national AI' — Japan's FRONTia Project could be the next big step forward in global progress, but is this a step too far?
The Japanese government, Noetra Corp, and Nvidia are building an AI project that it believes will deliver physical AI and underpin Japan’s entire AI ecosystem
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.
AMD’s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD’s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Z.AI Completes Giant Data Center With Chinese Chips to Train AI
Z.AI has completed construction of a giant data center that houses only Chinese-made chips, a big step in Beijing’s efforts to replace restricted Nvidia Corp. silicon for future AI development.
NVIDIA data center hardware is being cooled with water 'hotter than a hot tub'
It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's leather jacket sells for nearly $1 million at Sotheby’s auction
One of Jensen Huang's black leather jackets, a 2023 Tom Ford example, sellsfor $960,000 at a New York auction.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 May Be More About Memory Than Compute
When DeepSeek’s R1 debuted in early 2025, almost $600 billion was wiped out from Nvidia Corp.’s market value in a single day on fears that artificial intelligence would require less computing power than previously expected. Moonshot AI’s release of Kimi K3 on Friday triggered a similar reaction, helping push semiconductor stocks sharply lower.
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers currently locked into Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream […] This story continues at The Next Web
Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it in 2023 at a Foxconn event in Taipei and signed it for the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia RTX 5000 Super GPUs rumored to be ready — but they're on hold, and the reason why makes me nervous about pricing
These Super refreshes are still coming, by all accounts, but they could make quite the dent in your bank balance.
Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to surpass […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billion-per-month arrangement with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data centre’s Nvidia GPUs. The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It […] This story continues at The Next Web
Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it
The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, […] This story continues at The Next Web
South Korea To Launch Universal Basic AI Chatbot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: South Korea's government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The "AI for everyone" plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the year 2031. Bid documents reveal that Seoul will provide up to 256 Nvidia B200 GPUs to successful bidders. Winners must match government funding. The aim of the policy is to ens
Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity
The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs […] This story continues at The Next Web
Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, and Nvidia is supplying all of it
Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind. The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts of data centre capacity, built on the Nvidia […] This story continues at The Next Web