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Arm joins EuroCDP to accelerate Europe’s next generation of innovators

Arm has joined the European Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP), an initiative established under the European Chips Act. Through this collaboration, European startups, researchers, and small businesses gain access to Arm intellectual property, development tools, and training via programs such as Arm Flexible Access.

“Arm becomes the first commercial IP provider to participate in EuroCDP” — Arm

5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy

NVIDIA outlined various energy-sector deployments powered by its computing platforms. ThinkLabs utilizes CUDA to model and simulate electrical grid operations, while Atomic Canyon applies accelerated computing to nuclear plant management software. Additionally, Redwood Materials integrates the Blackwell platform to coordinate repurposed electric vehicle battery storage systems for data centers.

“Southern California Edison used ThinkLabs software to reduce the time required to evaluate each grid interconnection application from 30-45 days to just two minutes.” — NVIDIA

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The latest iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lineups arrive in stores worldwide

Apple began in-store retail availability for several new product lines on September 18. The global launch encompasses the iPhone 18 Pro series, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and the fifth-generation AirPods.

“On Friday, September 18, Apple Store locations around the world introduced customers to the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5.” — Apple

Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW

NVIDIA has added new titles to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming catalog, including Aniimo and Active Matter. In addition, 007 First Light has been updated with path tracing and DLSS 4.5 support, enabling Ultimate tier subscribers to stream with GeForce RTX 5080-equivalent hardware performance.

“Ultimate members can stream with GeForce RTX 5080-class performance, with up to 5K high dynamic range and cinematic-quality streaming.” — NVIDIA

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Arm publishes FYE26 Sustainable Business Report

Arm has released its FYE26 Sustainable Business Report detailing corporate environmental and social initiatives. The company emphasized energy efficiency in addressing artificial intelligence workloads and reported running its direct global operations on fully renewable electricity. The report also highlights compute density metrics for its processor architecture.

“Delivering more than twice the performance per rack with the Arm AGI CPU compared with x86 platforms.” — Arm

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

In the MLPerf Inference v6.1 benchmark suite, NVIDIA published initial results for its Vera Rubin NVL72 and GB300 NVL72 rack-scale architectures. Across evaluations on large models like DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen3-VL, the Vera Rubin platform utilizes NVFP4 precision formats and updated NVLink interconnects to improve inference throughput over earlier configurations.

“A 288-GPU submission across four GB300 NVL72 racks achieved 99% scaling efficiency, with throughput growing nearly linearly from a single-rack baseline.” — NVIDIA

Celebrating “What Holds Us” on iPhone 18 Pro

A photography exhibition curated by Kathy Ryan has been organized to display the camera capabilities of the iPhone 18 Pro. The project features visual works captured using the device.

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers

Google, Emerald AI, and NVIDIA have established the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The industry group aims to develop technical standards that enable computing facilities to dynamically adjust electricity demand based on grid conditions. The coalition also seeks to establish unified performance metrics and streamline utility interconnection procedures.

University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK

Researchers at the University of Manchester have adapted NVIDIA Earth-2 generative AI models, including CorrDiff and StormCast, to simulate and forecast regional air pollution. Training was completed in two days on an eight-GPU partition of the Isambard-AI supercomputer, producing UK-wide pollution models at a resolution of 2 to 3 square kilometers, with inference also running on DGX Spark systems.

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

Salesforce introduced Koa, a CRM reasoning model developed using NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super foundation model. The system was trained on synthetic enterprise data using NVIDIA NeMo development tools, allowing Salesforce to manage model weights and perform inference entirely within its own infrastructure.

“Koa was built using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with NVIDIA NeMo RL, NeMo Gym and NeMo AutoModel.” — NVIDIA