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Electronics For You BUSINESS · · Unconfirmed
Elon Musk’s firm seeks substantial debt backing as tech majors race to finance soaring capital expenditure for AI infrastructure. SpaceX is in discussions with major banks and asset managers to raise $40 billion to fund the purchase of...
Tech-Economic Times ·
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su put Korean AI chips at the center of partnership talks in Seoul on Wednesday, exploring how they could work alongside AMD processors in systems built for global markets, reported The Korea Herald.
SiliconANGLE ·
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia...
The Register ·
Microsoft released its first Surface notebook powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) during an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Surface Laptop Ultra is one of several new Copilot+ PCs powered by the N1X chip that...
TechSpot ·
Pre-orders are now open for the Surface Laptop Ultra and other laptops built on the same Arm-based SoC, which marks Nvidia's entry into the PC CPU market. Microsoft's model starts at $2,600 with 24GB of unified memory.
TechRepublic ·
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 with an Nvidia RTX Spark GPU, up to 128GB of memory, and support for running large AI models locally. The post Microsoft’s $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts Nvidia RTX Spark Inside a...
TechRadar ·
Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in...
TechCrunch ·
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
GeekWire ·
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shake hands in front of new RTX Spark laptops at Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on Wednesday. (Photo by Ken Yeung for GeekWire) Microsoft is turning...
TNW ·
Microsoft priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface at $2,599.99 and claimed on stage that it doubles a MacBook Pro M5 on local AI prompts, without publishing how either figure was measured. The chip inside is built on Arm’s architecture,...
TechRadar ·
Rahim Amir is a UAE-based tech writer who enjoys building PCs as much as he enjoys writing about them. He has been professionally writing about PC hardware since 2023, focusing on buyer’s guides, hardware reviews, and sponsored content...
BetaKit ·
Toronto- and New York City-based Mecka AI has raised a $60-million USD ($86-million CAD) Series B round led by Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital. This financing was first reported by Bloomberg , which indicated that US chip giants...
Slashdot ·
At a press event today, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Laptop Ultra featuring an NVIDIA RTX Spark platform with a Blackwell-based GPU capable of up to one petaflop of AI compute. The laptop supports up to 128GB of unified memory for...
The Verge ·
The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end...
NVIDIA Blog ·
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows,...
Engadget ·
Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark
NVIDIA Technical Blog ·
Supply chain problems are expanding across more SKUs, lanes, and constraints than ever before, while energy grids are balancing more distributed sources in real... Supply chain problems are expanding across more SKUs, lanes, and...
NVIDIA Technical Blog ·
Observatories and telescopes, lasers and X-ray light sources, and other high-throughput instruments generate image data faster than CPU-bound pipelines can... Observatories and telescopes, lasers and X-ray light sources, and other...
PYMNTS.com ·
Microsoft is ready to unveil a Nvidia-powered laptop as it works to make Windows a platform for artificial intelligence agents, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. Microsoft is trying to show that some of the work that happens in cloud...
Phoronix ·
NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
TNW ·
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San Francisco on Wednesday, the first Surface built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. The laptop is designed to let AI agents run...
AppleInsider · · Medium severity
There's been a project on Reddit using generative coding tools to crank out Nvidia Metal graphics drivers for Hackintosh projects and Intel PCI-E macs running Sequoia, and it finally been released to the public. For now, it's limited to...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Gulf Business Machines (GBM) launched The UAE’s first AI Lab built on the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA . The lab will give organisations across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region the secure, full-stack infrastructure they...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today, Bloomberg reported that the talks are underway, citing people familiar with the matter. Both reports rely on unnamed...
TechCentral ·
The financing would mix bank loans and investment-grade debt, closing in 2027, according to the FT.
Electronics For You BUSINESS ·
Morgan Stanley highlights strong supply chain visibility as power grid bottlenecks threaten secondary chip suppliers. Leading chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom remain well insulated from an intensifying power shortfall facing US data...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
Tech companies and AI model developers are investing and borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to build and lease giant data centers full of chips to power AI systems
Tech-Economic Times ·
The Elon Musk-led company is seeking to raise about $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment-grade debt to fund its chip order, the report said.
Tech-Economic Times ·
Investment firms Blackstone and Coatue Management are leading the round, the report said. Lambda is aiming to go public in 2027, depending on execution and market conditions, according to a letter to the company's limited partners...
NVIDIA Technical Blog ·
GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like first-class GPU-controlled operations rather than host-driven services. GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like...
Ubuntu security notices ·
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers; -...
Phoronix ·
While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of...
TechRadar ·
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
Shares are up 28% this year, just shy of $5.8 trillion, as the chipmaker authorises an additional $150 billion repurchase
SiliconANGLE ·
today expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with a semantic layer and a knowledge graph intended to give artificial intelligence agents trusted context from a company’s own data. Dell is also speeding up data processing on Nvidia Corp. The...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
The model, called Beam, is designed to perform well for business customers and developers on coding and AI agent tasks while costing less than many competitors
Tech-Economic Times ·
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in coding and agentic tasks.
TNW ·
Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this...
Tech-Economic Times ·
The brokerage estimated last month that US data-center developers face a 34% net power shortfall through 2028, equivalent to 32 GW, after accounting for measures such as behind-the-meter generation and fuel cells
Tech-Economic Times ·
The company announced that it has placed two further firm and binding orders for 20,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for deployment of the systems across India and Malaysia, taking its total capacity to 100 Megawatt.
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