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Apple and Major League Baseball announce August “Friday Night Baseball” schedule

Apple and Major League Baseball have announced the August lineup for "Friday Night Baseball," a weekly doubleheader available on Apple TV.

GeForce NOW Turns Up the Heat With New GeForce RTX 5080-Powered Toronto Server

NVIDIA is adding a new GeForce RTX 5080-powered server in Toronto to expand its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. The server will provide Ultimate members with high-performance streaming across multiple devices, supporting up to 4K resolution and 120 fps. Additionally, the NTE: Neverness to Everness game is receiving an update with new content and upcoming native touch controls.

“The new server will roll out within days, giving more players access to top-tier cloud gaming across Canada.” — NVIDIA

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Apple scores record 89 Emmy Award nominations

Apple received 89 Emmy Award nominations across 15 programs for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, setting a new record for the company.

AMD to Report Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

AMD announced it will report its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. The report will cover the period ending June 27, 2026.

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra model, when paired with LangChain's Deep Agents harness, achieves top accuracy among open models on LangChain's benchmark, completing more tasks at higher throughput and 10x lower inference cost than leading closed models. The performance gains come from engineering the harness around the model, not retraining it. The tuned profile is available through LangChain, and the open-source NemoClaw blueprint packages the stack for enterprise customization.

“The way to build better agents is to keep improving the system around the model” — NVIDIA

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

Apple has announced a six-year agreement with Broadcom to develop custom silicon and wireless connectivity components. The collaboration aims to produce billions of U.S.-made chips.

AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

NVIDIA introduces Vera, a CPU designed for max single-threaded performance at scale, targeting agentic AI workloads. Traditional data center CPUs prioritize core count over per-core speed, which can slow agent loops. Vera aims to deliver strong per-core performance, memory bandwidth, and predictable latency to maximize AI factory revenue and agent performance.

Announcing the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2026

The WILDLABS Awards 2026, a collaboration between WILDLABS and Arm, distribute $360,000 across 16 conservation technology projects. Winners include innovations such as AI-powered bioacoustic monitoring, satellite sea turtle tags, and tools for protecting various species. Many projects utilize Arm-based technologies for power efficiency and on-device AI processing.

“For me, what’s fascinating is the breadth of the projects. It’s not just about the most exciting piece of technology. It’s also about where existing technologies can be adopted and adapted for conservation purposes.” — Arm

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

NVIDIA and Hugging Face are integrating NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T 1.7 model and Isaac Teleop framework into Hugging Face's LeRobot open-source robotics library. This collaboration aims to provide developers with standardized tools for robot data collection, model training, and deployment, with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 planned for future integration. The partnership connects NVIDIA's 3 million robotics developers with Hugging Face's 16 million AI builders.

“Open source is how a field turns advanced research into something people can study, adapt and build on.” — NVIDIA

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How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

At ICML 2026, NVIDIA had 74 accepted papers, with approximately 2,000 papers citing NVIDIA GPUs and 145 citing the Nemotron open model family. Research themes included vision and video generation, reinforcement learning for LLMs, and AI inference, with emerging areas like robot world models and AI for life sciences. Open models such as Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, and BioNeMo were widely used across physical AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and biomedical research.