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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.

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations are investing in AI infrastructure, including AI factories, to develop models tailored to local needs. These efforts span physical and data infrastructure, with a focus on foundation models trained on local datasets. Key components of national AI strategies include workforce development, ecosystem building, and public-private partnerships.

“The AI factory will become the bedrock of modern economies across the world” — NVIDIA

Joyride Through July With 12 Games Coming to GeForce NOW

NVIDIA announced 12 new games coming to GeForce NOW in July, including Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains. The GeForce NOW Summer Sale offers discounts on Performance and Ultimate memberships. The service allows cloud gaming across various devices.

NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout

NVIDIA introduces a new business model for AI clouds to procure its infrastructure through revenue-sharing and credit-support, enabling faster access to accelerated computing for AI startups and enterprises. Sharon AI and Firmus are among the first partners, with Sharon AI deploying up to 40,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs and Firmus building a 360-megawatt AI factory campus in Indonesia. The initiative aims to meet growing demand for token-scale AI inference and training capacity.

“Sharon AI is deploying up to 40,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs.” — NVIDIA

NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America

NVIDIA and its partners are manufacturing products within the United States to serve the American market. The initiative focuses on domestic production and supply chain resilience.

Top Arm-based innovations advancing AI, cloud, edge and mobile computing in June 2026

Arm's June 2026 newsletter highlights innovations including Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 VMs, low-light AI vision, and Unreal Engine graphics optimizations for mobile. The Cobalt 200 CPU offers performance gains for cloud-native and agentic AI workloads. Arm researchers developed a generative AI solution for low-light image enhancement, and Unreal Engine MegaLights and Nanite optimizations improve mobile graphics.

“Cobalt 200 delivers: 16% faster agentic sandbox creation 42% higher agentic sandbox memory bandwidth 50% better agentic sandbox tool…” — Arm