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These are the first NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops

Nvidia has officially entered the world of consumer laptop chips with the RTX Spark, and several device makers already have hardware lined up for it.

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AI infrastructure capacity and cost are becoming core constraints for labs and enterprises scaling real workloads.

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NVIDIA Releases Major Collection of Open Source Agent Tools and Skills for Physical AI

NVIDIA today announced a major collection of open source physical AI skills and tools that help developers turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle (AV), vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks — reducing the costs, time and complexity of building physical AI workflows at scale.

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NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Becomes the Global Platform for a Robotaxi-Ready World

NVIDIA today announced a major expansion of the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ robotaxi-ready platform ecosystem, bringing together leading global automakers, manufacturing and autonomous vehicle (AV) software ecosystem partners along with ride-hailing mobility providers to build and expand level 4-ready robotaxi fleets.

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NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows Puts a Trillion-Parameter AI Supercomputer on Every Enterprise Desk

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA DGX Station™ for Windows, the world’s most powerful deskside AI supercomputer designed to build, run and connect always-on AI agents to Windows applications and workflows, capable of running frontier AI models of up to 1 trillion parameters locally.

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Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B — The Israeli networking company says it is cash-flow positive with over $1B in backlog as AI demand accelerates.

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Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought NVIDIA chips, including the A100 and A800 (New York Times)

New York Times: Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 — An analysis of six years of procurement records suggests that the People's Liberation Army has openly tried to acquire restricted U.S.

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Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access — Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to Mythos, its powerful artificial intelligence...

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Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing "they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species", and more (@theallinpod)

@theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It's Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can...

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Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for NVIDIA's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor …

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NVIDIA says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into "full production", with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into “full production”, with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement — Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it's gearing up the production …

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NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open AI world model designed to help robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems better...

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NVIDIA unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands — Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to work with humanoid robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea in addition to China's Unitree …

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Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end — American AI company Runway is planning a major expansion in London, CNBC has learned, following in the wake of Anthropic and OpenAI …

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NVIDIA ramps up production of Vera Rubin, the foundation of the next generation of AI factories

Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it’s gearing up the production of its forthcoming Vera Rubin platform, which is set to become the foundation of a new generation of artificial intelligence factories that will dominate the enterprise infrastructure story for years to come.

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Jensen Huang says Microsoft and NVIDIA will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others — Nvidia has emerged as the world's most valuable company by dominating the market for AI chips in the data center.

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Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, securing substantial private capital ahead of its anticipated initial public offering.
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, a hybrid reasoning model featuring a 1M context window, improved consistency for long-running tasks, and a dynamic workflow tool for coordinating swarms of subagents.
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Frontier AI providers are expanding specialized access to advanced models for government and vetted developers to collaborate on biodefense and public health security initiatives.
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Anthropic has updated its frontier class with Claude Opus 4.8, introducing a hybrid reasoning architecture, a one-million token context window, and tools for coordinating subagent swarms.
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Global professional services firms are integrating advanced frontier models across their global workforces through strategic alliances to embed artificial intelligence into core audit, tax, and advisory business practices.
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Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.8, a hybrid reasoning model featuring a one-million-token context window and dynamic workflow tools designed to coordinate swarms of agentic subagents.
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Enterprise software engineering is rapidly shifting toward agentic development, as major corporations integrate AI coding agents to automate code reviews, accelerate delivery timelines, and scale hybrid and on-premise secure developer environments.
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Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, signaling significant investor capital deployment in frontier AI startups ahead of a highly anticipated IPO.
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