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Upping the stakes for AI infra, Nvidia launches turbocharged Vera Rubin platform
Nvidia Corp. is throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the artificial intelligence chip industry with the launch of its next-generation Vera Rubin platform. Announced at GTC 2026 today, it consists of no less than seven new ships designed to power what Chief Executive Jensen Huang said is the “greatest infrastructure buildout in history.” ...
Nvidia reinvents the CPU for the age of agentic AI
For a while, it was thought that generic central processing units had little role to play in the artificial intelligence revolution, but Nvidia Corp. begs to differ. At its GTC 2026 developer conference today, it announced the all-new Vera CPU, said to be the first chip of its kind designed specifically for agentic AI workloads ...
Report: Meta could lay off 20% of its staff and replace many of them with AI workers
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly planning to lay off as much as 20% of its global staff, according to a report by Reuters Friday that cited three people familiar with the company’s inner workings. The layoffs are being made in order to offset the company’s costly investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and lay the groundwork ...
Verifiable AI startup Axiom raises $200M to prove AI-generated code is safe to use
Axiom Quant Inc. said today it’s ready to step up to the plate and make sure that the tsunami of artificial intelligence-generated code is safe, secure and accurate after raising $200 million in early-stage funding. The Series A round, which brings Axiom’s valuation to $1.6 billion, was led by Menlo Ventures and represents a bet ...
Anthropic’s Claude gets interactive visuals to enhance learning
Last year, Anthropic PBC released a temporary experience called “Imagine with Claude” that enabled its chatbot to create interactive visuals in real-time without any code, and now the same capability is coming to Claude’s chat conversations. In a blog post today, the company said Claude’s new visualization capabilities are an “expansion” of Imagine with Claude that ...
Google Maps makes navigation easier with conversational ‘Ask Maps’ feature
Google LLC is giving Google Maps a new button: “Ask Maps” integrates a Gemini-powered conversational experience directly into the app, allowing users to ask more detailed questions about whatever it is they need to find. In a blog post, Google Maps Vice President and General Manager Miriam Daniel said users will be able to hit ...
With its serverless infrastructure, Tensorlake makes it simpler to deploy and scale agentic workflows
Tensorlake Inc. says it’s making life easier for organizations that want to design, build and run artificial intelligence agents with the debut of its new serverless infrastructure platform, which provides a ready-made foundation for autonomous systems to scale up. The startup says it’s trying to tackle the overwhelming “infrastructure sprawl” that becomes almost inevitable when ...
Nvidia’s Nemotron Super 3 model for agentic systems launches with five times higher throughput
With so much talk about its upcoming Vera Rubin graphics processing units, it’s easy to forget that Nvidia Corp. doesn’t just supply the hardware for artificial intelligence. It also develops its own series of AI models, and today it announced the availability of its most capable model so far. The company said Nemotron Super 3 is ...
Rivian’s industrial automation spinoff Mind Robotics secures $500M in funding
Rivian Automotive Inc. founder and Chief Executive RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics said today it has raised $500 million at a $2 billion valuation in an early-stage round co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. Mind Robotics is extremely ambitious, intending to build a full-stack robotics platform that incorporates multipurpose robots plus the foundation models required to ...
Despite an earnings beat and solid guidance, UiPath’s stock slides after hours
UiPath Inc. beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its latest financial results, doubled its profitability and offered solid guidance for the current quarter and full year, but it still wasn’t enough to satisfy investors. Despite the strong results, its stock fell more than 4% in late trading today. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings before ...