AI lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value
AI lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value

Flapping Airplanes, a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late 2025, has raised $1B at a $6B valuation, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, Bloomberg reported. Its valuation has quadrupled since January. It is working on ways to train AI with l…

Lucid’s 25,000 Bolt robotaxis will run on Nvidia’s self-driving software
Lucid’s 25,000 Bolt robotaxis will run on Nvidia’s self-driving software

Lucid’s European robotaxi deal now has a driver. Bolt announced today that its fleet of at least 25,000 autonomous Lucid vehicles will run Nvidia’s Alpamayo Stack self-driving software, starting with a data-collection program in Madrid in 2027.

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Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use
Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use

European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after Germany signed an …

Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents
Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents

Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said. Nvidia announced the…

Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones
Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones

Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his …

Nvidia simulates 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on JUPITER
Nvidia simulates 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on JUPITER

Nvidia has simulated a 104-qubit quantum computer that can correct its own errors, using JUPITER, the supercomputer at Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The company said it is the largest full simulation of such a machine so far. Qubits are the b…

Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs
Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs

Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday. The fir…

OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say i…

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4….

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not indepen…