Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has publicly open-sourced software development tools created in partnership with Huawei Technologies for programming the company's Ascend AI chips. The release marks a significant step in China's effort to build alternatives to Nvidia's dominant hardware and CUDA software ecosystem.
President Trump signed what he called a 'morally binding' AI safety accord with tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, and Jensen Huang at a White House meeting. The agreement requires frontier AI companies to implement internal safety controls and use independent external evaluators, though it lacks enforcement mechanisms.
Coinbase filed with the CFTC through Coinbase Derivatives to list single-stock perpetual futures in the US, seeking to bring the popular crypto instrument to individual equities including Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia.
King Charles III convened AI industry leaders including Nvidia's Jensen Huang and executives from OpenAI and Anthropic at a summit in Scotland, urging them to ensure AI remains 'firmly in the service of humanity' amid mounting safety concerns.
Apple is working on an enterprise server using two or four M8 Ultra chips for the AI inference market, with discussions underway with Nvidia about networking equipment, according to The Information. Launch expected no earlier than 2029.
Dutch startup Axelera AI launched its second-generation Europa chip and secured AI factory supply contracts with over 600 customers, while Euclyd raised €200M in Series A funding co-led by Samsung to develop its CRAFTWERK inference chip as an alternative to GPU-based solutions.
Nvidia has introduced the RTX Pro 5500, a professional graphics card based on the RTX 5090 architecture but equipped with significantly more memory to target AI applications. The move reflects the company's strategic pivot toward maximizing margins in the AI market rather than focusing primarily on gaming.
Solana memecoin platform Pump.fun introduced a Custom Pairs feature on September 9, allowing new tokens to trade against 93 quote assets including tokenized stocks like Nvidia, Tesla, and the S&P 500, expanding beyond its traditional SOL and USDC settlement options. The platform's mobile app also surpassed Robinhood Chain in Solana trading volume.
Qualcomm announced a long-term partnership with Amazon Web Services to supply up to $60 billion worth of AI data center chips and related products. As part of the deal, Amazon received warrants to purchase approximately $4 billion in Qualcomm stock, marking Qualcomm's first major Western hyperscaler customer as it challenges Nvidia in AI infrastructure.
OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra model independently beat Valve's Portal puzzle game in under 24 hours at a cost of $571.18 in tokens, with developer cozyblaze publishing the code on GitHub. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded by declaring that AGI has arrived.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that artificial general intelligence has been achieved, crediting OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model released on September 3, 2026. The declaration marks a significant milestone in AI development, with the model trained using over 100,000 processors.
Following deadly flash floods in Nepal that killed over 1,200 people and left 4,200 missing, the tech industry has launched multiple relief efforts. Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal initiated a cryptocurrency donation campaign for Nepal's official disaster fund, NVIDIA CEO donated $10 million, and international aid including Australian drone specialists has been deployed as the country faces an estimated $5 billion in rebuilding costs.
AI company Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Lambda, a cloud provider backed by Nvidia, for a data center in Nueces County, Texas. The project, being developed by Hut 8, covers approximately 350 megawatts of capacity.
Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion investment in convertible bonds issued by Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, marking Nvidia's largest direct investment outside the US. The deal deepens collaboration between the companies and gives MediaTek access to Nvidia's AI technologies, though it has raised investor concerns about circular financing in the AI chip sector.
Nvidia halted some deals in its financing initiative that offered credit support to AI cloud companies in exchange for revenue shares, according to WSJ. The pause comes as the company faces scrutiny over its extensive financial entanglements with AI customers.
Nvidia has established a federal political action committee funded by employees, filing a statement of organization Thursday. The move aims to strengthen the company's influence on U.S. policy as governments debate artificial intelligence regulations that could significantly impact the AI industry.
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI platform and model repository, for $12.9 billion according to multiple reports. The acquisition would give the chip giant control of a strategic hub for open-source AI development.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Egypt next week for the first time in a decade, coinciding with Huawei's bid to build AI data centers for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is countering by assembling a rival consortium including Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft.
OpenAI published benchmark results for its custom Jalapeño inference chip built with Broadcom, claiming it delivers more AI work per watt and faster responses than Nvidia's GB300 processors with a 50% cost advantage.
OpenAI presented benchmarks at Hot Chips conference showing its 700W Jalapeño ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, delivers up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency compared to Nvidia's 1,400W flagship GPU. The chip is designed for fast AI inference at scale.
Nvidia has put its Groq 3 LPX racks into full production following its $20 billion acquisition of Groq, with the SRAM-based language processing units achieving 3,400 tokens per second and Samsung manufacturing the 4-nanometer chips. The first deployment is set for Nebius Token Factory before year-end.
Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a senior Nvidia manager as part of a group that allegedly smuggled advanced AI chips into China, according to people familiar with the matter. Nine people total were charged, including former Nvidia employees.
A Russian drone fitted with an Nvidia chip and guided entirely by AI killed three Ukrainian civilians in July, according to Ukrainian officials and the New York Times. The attack represents a significant escalation in autonomous weaponry.
Nvidia published research showing that the software harness surrounding an AI model—which provides tools, memory management, and rules—matters more than the underlying model itself when AI agents handle long-horizon, multi-step tasks.
Nvidia has made a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data center developer, to build infrastructure powering AI data center projects across the United States. The partnership aims to support the ongoing AI buildout that has driven Nvidia's recent growth.
Nvidia has rejected reports claiming it plans to begin shipping a language processing unit (LPU) tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026, stating there is no China-specific LPU product in its roadmap. The denial comes in response to a report by The Information suggesting the company was developing such a chip to navigate US export restrictions.
Nvidia has rejected reports claiming it plans to begin shipping a language processing unit (LPU) tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026, stating there is no China-specific LPU product in its roadmap. The denial comes in response to a report by The Information suggesting the company was developing such a chip to navigate US export restrictions.
Goldman Sachs has won a coveted role in Nvidia's $500 billion AI infrastructure financing program and is now in talks with potential investors including insurers, money managers, and banks to participate in the deal. The bank is serving as sole traditional investment bank structurer and distributor for GPU-backed compute bonds.
Nvidia announced a plan with major Wall Street firms including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize up to $500 billion for AI infrastructure. Analysts warn the deal faces significant risk from China's Huawei chip production surge, which could depress secondary GPU market prices that serve as collateral for the financing structure.
Nvidia has partnered with six major financial institutions including Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Brookfield Asset Management to launch compute financing platforms aimed at raising over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure, including datacenters, chip factories, and power stations.
Nvidia has partnered with six major Wall Street firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital for GPU-backed AI infrastructure financing. The complex leveraged financing structures, including Lambda's $1 billion credit facility, are drawing increased scrutiny as rating standards remain unresolved.
Nvidia has partnered with six major asset management firms to establish a $500 billion financing package aimed at funding AI infrastructure projects, with CEO Jensen Huang positioning the company's chips as an investable asset class.
AMD announced the acquisition of Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas for an undisclosed sum on August 6, 2026. Taalas specializes in etching AI model weights directly into silicon to enhance inference performance, part of AMD's strategy to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware.
The Trump administration has finalized a voluntary framework for evaluating cybersecurity risks of advanced AI models but will not make it publicly available. The framework was briefed to major tech companies including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with open-source AI systems reportedly exempt from security reviews.
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new $100 million initiative to establish state and regional AI infrastructure hubs across the country, partnering with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Dell Technologies to expand access to computing resources for researchers, students, and educators.
NVIDIA announced it is using AI agents running on its Vera CPUs to automate and speed up chip design processes, extending its AI Agent toolkit into semiconductor engineering. The company is now running its own chip design software on this AI-powered infrastructure.
Nvidia committed $5 billion to Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI research lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, marking one of the chipmaker's largest AI investments. The companies announced a long-term strategic partnership as SSI prepares to scale its research operations.
NVIDIA has formed a long-term strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI safety startup founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. The deal includes an investment in SSI and provides the company access to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin computing systems, expanding SSI's compute capacity by an order of magnitude.
NAVER, NVIDIA, and Brookfield have proposed expanding the NVIDIA DSX AI factory deployment at GAK Sejong from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028. NVIDIA plans to invest $1 billion, Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9 billion, and NAVER will fund the remaining amounts required for the project.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has integrated xStocks tokenized equities into its Dual Asset structured product, offering fixed-return yield products backed by shares of SpaceX, Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Coinbase, and Amazon with investment periods ranging from 8 hours to 1 day.
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that the Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure system was in full production. AMD claims Helios delivers up to 15% more peak theoretical FP4 compute than Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72, based on AMD calculations. The system integrates 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 18 EPYC “Venice” CPUs and AMD Pensando networking for large-scale AI training and inference.
Advanced Micro Devices and Anthropic have announced a major partnership involving up to $5 billion in investment and the deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's upcoming Instinct MI450 series GPUs, marking AMD's largest AI infrastructure deal and a significant challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly praised Chinese open-source AI models as 'excellent' and 'world class,' urging Washington not to ban them, even as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of scrutinizing Chinese models for stolen intellectual property. The comments come amid growing concern in Washington over low-cost Chinese AI models like Kimi that increasingly compete with American offerings.
U.S. export licenses granted to roughly ten Chinese firms — including Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, ZTE Kangxun Telecom, and Maginfra — permit H200 and AMD MI325X purchases, though Chinese customs has informally blocked imports and Nvidia has recognized zero revenue under the program.
Nvidia's next-generation Kyber NVL144 rack-scale system, designed to house Rubin Ultra chips, has been delayed by over 12 months to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm SemiAnalysis. The delay sent Asian technology supplier stocks tumbling, with some losing double-digit percentages in market value.
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter AI model that the company claims was trained entirely on Chinese-made chips using a 50,000-chip cluster. The release demonstrates China's growing capability to develop large-scale AI models without relying on Nvidia hardware amid U.S. export restrictions.
Taiwanese government agencies raided offices of Super Micro Computer Inc. and its local affiliates as part of an expanding investigation into alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China through the company's servers, marking Taiwan's first public crackdown on AI chip diversion.
Firmus Technologies announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia to provide emerging AI firms with more cost-effective access to computing resources, with plans to build its first data center project in Indonesia.
NVIDIA announced Halos for Robotics, described as the industry's first comprehensive safety system that unifies AI computing and safety protocols for robots and physical AI operating in workplaces. Agility Robotics is the first company to implement the system in its Digit humanoid robots.
World model AI startup Odyssey ML, founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, secured $310 million in funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was backed by Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, CIA-linked fund IQT, and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean.
Stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings led a $1.4 billion Series C funding round for German startup Neura Robotics, which develops AI-powered humanoid robots. The round also included participation from Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Amazon, marking one of the largest investments in physical AI and humanoid robotics to date.
Google has placed orders for over three million Tensor Processing Units from Intel for 2028 delivery, representing half of Google's estimated 6 million TPU production. Nvidia is also testing Intel's manufacturing technology for its upcoming Feynman architecture.
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus on federal land in southern Ohio, with the deal potentially including financial backing from Nvidia. The project could cost at least $500 billion.
Nvidia has invested at least $6.5 billion into companies developing photonics technology over the past three months, racing to solve major bottlenecks in AI infrastructure by using light-based data transmission instead of electrical signals.
NVIDIA AI released Gated DeltaNet-2, a linear attention layer that decouples erase and write operations in the delta rule, addressing memory editing challenges in fixed-size recurrent states without scrambling existing associations.
NVIDIA researchers have introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models at 30B, 23B, and 12B parameter scales inside a single checkpoint, enabling zero-shot model slicing without retraining.
Nvidia announced a strategic partnership with data center operator IREN that includes an investment of up to $2.1 billion and plans to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure to meet surging demand for artificial intelligence computing power. IREN shares initially surged in extended trading before giving back most gains.
OpenAI launched Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to improve GPU networking performance in large-scale AI training infrastructure.
Anthropic secured access to over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX's Colossus One data center in Memphis under a new partnership, providing more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity weeks before SpaceX's anticipated $1.75 trillion IPO.
Nvidia unveiled a new enterprise AI agent platform at GTC 2026, with initial adopters including Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, and Siemens. Siemens is launching its Fuse EDA AI Agent using Nvidia's Nemotron to autonomously orchestrate workflows across its electronic design automation portfolio.
Google released TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces large language model memory usage by at least 6x while improving performance, targeting AI inference cost reduction. The announcement caused significant market impact, with memory chip maker stocks reportedly declining.
