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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

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From Materials Simulation to Experimental Astronomy, New NVIDIA AI Software Unlocks Scientific Discoveries
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From Materials Simulation to Experimental Astronomy, New NVIDIA AI Software Unlocks Scientific Discoveries

At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new software that speeds AI for science, from chemistry and materials discovery to the…

NAIRR Science Program Reshapes Scientific Research, Powered by NVIDIA AI Infrastructure
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NAIRR Science Program Reshapes Scientific Research, Powered by NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program has driven innovative re…

At ISC, JUPITER Shows What Exascale Science Looks Like
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At ISC, JUPITER Shows What Exascale Science Looks Like

JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand …

ChinAI #364: Who is Us - the hybridization of innovation and challenges to assessing technological dependence
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ChinAI #364: Who is Us - the hybridization of innovation and challenges to assessing technological dependence

Greetings from a world where……

Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI’s Biggest Machines
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Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI’s Biggest Machines

Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their coolin…

Sakana Fugu: One Model to Command Them All
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Sakana Fugu: One Model to Command Them All

Sakana AI Releases ‘Fugu Ultra’ to Match Frontier Performance via Autonomous Model Orchestration.Our Fugu Ultra model stands shoulder-to-shoulder with leading m…

Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees
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Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.…

New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises
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New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises

OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.…

How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability
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How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability

In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection im…

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT
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Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informe…

Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
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Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.…

Securing the future of AI agents
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Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.…

At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA Partners Reshape Advertising and Marketing With AI
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At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA Partners Reshape Advertising and Marketing With AI

The digital era gave the advertising and marketing industry speed; the AI era is giving it autonomous operations. For companies building next-generation technol…

France Advances Europe’s AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies
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France Advances Europe’s AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies

A year ago at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier mod…

Introducing LifeSciBench
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Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decision…

A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
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A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.…

New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.
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New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.

Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.…

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
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Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.…

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone
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Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. …

Hands Free, AIs Forward: NVIDIA XR AI Brings Agents to AR Glasses
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Hands Free, AIs Forward: NVIDIA XR AI Brings Agents to AR Glasses

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.  …

Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment
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Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation a…

HPE AI Factory With NVIDIA Expands for the Era of Agents
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HPE AI Factory With NVIDIA Expands for the Era of Agents

Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover…

Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0
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Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0

Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can itera…

We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.
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We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurpos…

ChinAI #363: A College Admissions Advisor for 13 Million
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ChinAI #363: A College Admissions Advisor for 13 Million

Plus, details on the college preference list, or what happens after the Gaokao?…

Sakana AI、初の商用プロダクト「Sakana Marlin」を提供開始
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Sakana AI、初の商用プロダクト「Sakana Marlin」を提供開始

戦略調査を数時間で完遂する、自律型リサーチアシスタント「Sakana Marlin」…

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network
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Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.…

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark
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NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare…

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
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New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.…

Introducing EVMbench
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Introducing EVMbench

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.…