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Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence

Apple announced accessibility updates driven by Apple Intelligence, adding new features to VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World: “Demand Is Going Parabolic, Utterly Parabolic”

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Dell CEO Michael Dell discussed the accelerating demand for AI infrastructure at Dell Technologies World. They highlighted the new Dell PowerEdge XE9812 server based on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, which offers up to 10x lower cost-per-token for agentic AI inferencing. The Vera CPU is claimed to complete agentic workloads 50% faster than x86 processors, with 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth.

“Vera CPU has the highest single-threaded performance of any CPU in the world.” — NVIDIA

Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs

NVIDIA has introduced Vera, its first CPU designed for AI agents, now available at leading AI research labs. The chip is optimized for agentic AI workloads, offering high performance for inference and simulation tasks.

Apple kicks off Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8

Apple announced the schedule for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which will be held from June 8 to June 12.

Sea You in the Cloud: ‘Subnautica 2’ Early Access Dives Onto GeForce NOW

Subnautica 2 launches on GeForce NOW on its release day, May 14, allowing members to play across devices. Forza Horizon 6 early access begins May 14 for Premium Edition purchasers, with GeForce NOW support. A limited-time HITMAN World of Assassination reward event runs through June 14, offering exclusive items.

“Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch” — NVIDIA

Intel Named Official Compute Partner of McLaren Racing

Intel and McLaren Racing have announced a multi-year strategic partnership. Intel will serve as the Official Compute Partner for McLaren's Formula 1, IndyCar, and sim racing teams, providing advanced computing for AI and high-performance architectures.

NVIDIA, Ineffable Intelligence Team Up to Build the Future of Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence are collaborating on infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning. The partnership focuses on building optimized pipelines that support systems learning from experience, starting with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and exploring the upcoming Vera Rubin platform.

“The next frontier of AI is superlearners — systems that learn continuously from experience.” — NVIDIA

Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark

Nous Research's Hermes agent, an open-source framework for self-improving AI agents, has gained rapid adoption with over 140,000 GitHub stars. It is designed for reliability and local execution, with capabilities such as self-evolving skills and contained sub-agents. NVIDIA highlights that its RTX GPUs and DGX Spark are well-suited for running Hermes and the new Qwen 3.6 models, which offer high performance in smaller parameter sizes.

“Hermes is designed for reliability and self-improvement — two qualities that have historically been hard to achieve with agents.” — NVIDIA

Wackadoo! Join Bluey for the ultimate playdate on Apple Arcade starting May 21

Apple Arcade will feature exclusive Bluey content across five existing games starting May 21. Four new titles are also being added to the service.

NVIDIA and SAP Bring Trust to Specialized Agents

NVIDIA and SAP announced an expanded collaboration to integrate NVIDIA's OpenShell runtime into SAP's Business AI Platform, providing security and governance controls for specialized AI agents. The partnership aims to enable enterprises to deploy autonomous agents with policy enforcement, audit trails, and isolated execution environments. SAP engineers are co-developing OpenShell with NVIDIA, contributing to the open-source project.

“OpenShell provides isolated execution environments, policy enforcement at the filesystem and network layers, and infrastructure-level containment that guards against damage when agent logic fails.” — NVIDIA