Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk’s xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic – which it previously used for classified information – […]

Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price
Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price

Prices have surged from roughly 4 million yuan late last year to 7 million yuan ($1 million) today, driven by the Supermicro co-founder’s arrest, tighter enforcement, and voracious demand from Chinese AI companies unwilling to hold restricted hardware …

NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion
NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion

The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia’s entry marks the chip giant’s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $…

LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility
LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility

The discussions, triggered by a visit from Nvidia’s Madison Huang, would deepen LG’s physical AI ambitions and give Nvidia another major consumer electronics partner at a moment when physical AI is moving from lab to factory floor. LG Electronics confi…

Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.
Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, an open-weight multimodal AI model that unifies vision, audio, and language understanding in a single architecture designed to power autonomous AI agents on edge devices. The model has 30 billion paramet…

Nvidia quietly released a new version of GeForce RTX 5070 GPU inside a driver blog post

Nvidia’s new 12GB GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU uses a different GDDR7 memory supply to address stock constraints, giving laptop makers a third configuration option above the existing 8GB model.

GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery

Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time on a GPU from a cloud provider a r…

BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership
BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership

Nscale will construct the data centres at existing BT infrastructure sites; BT will provide connectivity. Both companies are founding members of the new UK Sovereign AI Industry Forum. The deal deepens Nscale’s position as a central plank of the UK gov…

Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Google’s newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.