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The Decoder · Oct 25, 2026, 7:02 AM EDT

Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra

Robotics teams can now label training video at roughly 1/125th the cost of GPT-6 Astra using Nvidia's open-source Flora.

Tech Funding News · Oct 13, 2026, 4:13 PM EDT

SpaceX seeks $40B led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, four months after its $86B IPO: Report

SpaceX is reportedly borrowing $40 billion for Nvidia chips just months after raising $85.7 billion—evidence that AI compute spending is outpacing even its massive IPO proceeds.

Ars Technica AI · Oct 2, 2026, 3:02 PM EDT

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

A tech CEO faces federal charges over an alleged $300 million scheme to route export-controlled Nvidia AI chips into China, signaling US enforcement now targets executives personally.

Ars Technica AI · Sep 28, 2026, 6:01 PM EDT

Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows

Beijing may let Alibaba, ByteDance, and peers import millions more Nvidia chips, potentially rerouting banned gaming GPUs into servers for China's top AI models.

Constellation Research · Sep 28, 2026, 6:03 AM EDT

Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to secure AI agents

Teams deploying autonomous AI agents get an open, hardware-backed way to cap what agents can do and quarantine ones that misbehave.

SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel) · Sep 11, 2026, 3:11 PM EDT

Nvidia’s Backstop Universe – Heads I Win, Tails Who Loses?

Nvidia now backstops $530B of the AI buildout off its balance sheet, so a demand shortfall would land partly on its own books.

CIO · Sep 3, 2026, 5:12 PM EDT

What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice

Teams that build on Hugging Face have no full open alternative if its new owner, Nvidia, ever tilts the platform toward its own hardware.

SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel) · Aug 25, 2026, 11:43 AM EDT

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI's first custom chip beat every Nvidia, AMD, and Google chip in the authors' benchmarks, a result that could erode Nvidia's grip on inference economics.

CIO · Aug 24, 2026, 9:32 PM EDT

Nvidia to hike prices by 15%, on top of an even larger increase in July

Budgets for AI infrastructure face another hit: a reported 15% Nvidia server price increase for early-2027 deliveries, on top of July's 30% hikes.

Tech Funding News · Aug 24, 2026, 6:13 AM EDT

Nvidia reportedly eyes Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation as AI search becomes an agent business

Nvidia doubling down on Perplexity at a reported $30B-plus valuation would price the AI search startup near 40x revenue, setting a benchmark for agent businesses.

Latent Space · Aug 21, 2026, 2:43 AM EDT

Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

Poolside's talent and technology moving into NVIDIA shows frontier-model startups can no longer raise compute capital fast enough to stay independent.

CIO · Aug 12, 2026, 12:12 AM EDT

Nvidia’s half-trillion-dollar AI investment fund could impact enterprise chip pricing, availability

Analysts warn Nvidia's $500B-plus financing fund could push enterprise AI infrastructure costs higher and deepen the data-center chip shortage.

NVIDIA Developer Blog · Jul 30, 2026, 5:12 PM EDT

NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud: Lessons for Unlocking Full Performance on AI Infrastructure

Misconfiguring kernel settings on new Blackwell or H100 clusters can silently waste up to 12% of your compute throughput, costing millions at scale.