NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
NVIDIA introduces its DSX Ready program to standardize and qualify power and cooling hardware for AI data centers.
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US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
US and Chinese officials began talks on an early-warning protocol for national security threats posed by AI.
AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart
Escalating data center debt and falling token prices threaten financial instability across hyperscalers and frontier AI labs.
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
Donald Trump faces growing pushback from MAGA conservatives and voters over his aggressive support for AI data center expansion.
Jina AI Releases jina-ocr-v1: A 3.4B MoE Document Parser With Built-In Speculative Decoding for Low-Budget GPUs
Jina AI launched jina-ocr-v1, a 3.4B MoE document parser designed to execute fast, low-cost visual parsing using speculative decoding.
PrismML Releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9 GB Apache 2.0 Model Retaining 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B Performance
PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed 5.9 GB open-weights model that retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B's baseline performance.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 benchmark debuts in MLPerf Inference v6.1, yielding up to 3.7x higher throughput than its predecessor.
AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories
NVIDIA and infrastructure partners demonstrated new power-management tools designed to optimize energy efficiency in large-scale AI factories.
What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
Hyperscalers face immense profit pressure as AI infrastructure capital expenditure targets $1.1 trillion by 2027 against modest current revenues.
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
Cornelis raises $205M to challenge Nvidia's networking dominance with its open-architecture Active Compute Fabric.
Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
ECB President Christine Lagarde warns Europe must build domestic AI infrastructure to avoid strategic leverage and economic disruption by the US or China.
Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
Perplexity released its local Portable Computer agent on Windows for NVIDIA RTX PCs with 24GB or more VRAM.
Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
Former EPA officials warn the Trump administration's environmental deregulation for AI data centers poses widespread public health risks.
Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
NVIDIA detailed its full compute stack spanning training, simulation, and edge hardware powering commercial scale robotaxi operations.
d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment
Inference chipmaker d-Matrix has adopted NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its Raptor XPUs directly into NVIDIA's rack-scale AI infrastructure.
AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips
AWS teamed up with Qualcomm to deploy specialized AI inference chips while Qualcomm adopts AWS Bedrock for automated semiconductor design.
NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels
NVIDIA releases CUDA Rust toolchains cuda-oxide and cutile-rs to enable compile-time-safe GPU kernel development.
An Alien Mind
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki expects sustained compute scaling to drive recursive self-improvement and superhuman AI reasoning.
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Perplexity published technical details on its custom GPU infrastructure stack that optimizes batch and real-time embedding serving.
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The shift to real-time AI inference requires rearchitecting data center storage, memory bandwidth, and networking infrastructure.
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek plans a 160,000-chip Huawei Ascend-950DT inference cluster in Inner Mongolia while remaining dependent on Nvidia for core training.
Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers
Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith, a developer-centric Windows setup paired with high-memory hardware to run 30B+ parameter AI models locally.
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
Nvidia released PAIR, an open-source tool that distributes local AI workloads across multiple devices on a home network.
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip is powering a new wave of high-end AI laptops designed to run agentic workloads locally.
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a custom Rust and Metal inference engine optimized for running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B natively on Apple Silicon.
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
Nvidia is officially rolling out DLSS 5, using generative AI filters to upscale graphics but requiring heavy hardware and multi-frame generation.
From Bill Gates to Bernie Sanders, most agree the AI arms race is disastrous. Only Europe can make it stop | Alexander Hurst
An opinion piece argues the EU could force a global AI slowdown by using Dutch firm ASML's lithography dominance as a trade choke-point.
China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China's CXMT has started small-scale production of HBM3E memory chips to help domestic AI chipmakers bypass US export controls.
OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust
An OpenAI researcher warns that ultra-fast inference speeds could allow misaligned AI systems to bypass human security controls.
GLM-5.3-Flash matches top models at a fraction of the cost, and runs without Nvidia
Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weights model matching top benchmarks at a fraction of the cost using Chinese silicon.
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI claims its custom Jalapeño ASIC outperforms NVIDIA's flagship chips on key AI inference efficiency benchmarks.
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Apple released new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops featuring M6 and M5 Ultra chips optimized for local AI workflows.
With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents
NVIDIA has put its Groq 3 LPX rack-scale inference system into full production to accelerate long-context agentic AI workloads.
Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
NVIDIA claims its Vera Rubin NVL72 platform delivers up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt for demanding agentic AI workloads.