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Europe’s Industrial Leaders Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing With NVIDIA

NVIDIA made its Factory Operations Blueprint available in early access on GitHub to support autonomous multi-agent systems in industrial manufacturing. The company also launched its cuDSS math library into general availability to speed up sparse direct solver calculations across engineering and physics simulations.

“NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is now available in early access on GitHub” — NVIDIA

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NVIDIA cuDSS Now Generally Available to Accelerate Engineering and Scientific Simulations

NVIDIA has released cuDSS, a GPU-accelerated sparse linear solver library within the CUDA-X ecosystem, into general availability. The software offloads intensive mathematical workloads common in scientific modeling and engineering simulations. It supports implementation through C, C++, Python, and Fortran, and scales from individual systems to distributed clusters.

“They can use cuDSS through C, C++, Python and Fortran interfaces.” — NVIDIA

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Apple unveils the 2026 Designers of Tomorrow

Apple has announced the return of its Designers of Tomorrow initiative for 2026. The program showcases work from new creative talent, organizing this edition around the concept of presence.

Apple announces American Manufacturing Program partners for latest iPhone lineup

Apple has established new and enlarged supplier agreements with domestic United States manufacturers. These companies are slated to provide parts and materials for the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro smartphones.

RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive

NVIDIA has introduced RTX Spark laptops, which integrate a Grace processor with a Blackwell RTX graphics chip. Starting at $2,399 from various system manufacturers, the computers provide up to 128 GB of unified memory and target AI workloads, digital content creation, and gaming.

“combining an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and NVIDIA Grace CPU with up to 1 petaflop of AI compute and up to 128GB of unified memory.” — NVIDIA

Arm at the OCP Global Summit 2026: How Arm AGI CPU is scaling agentic AI infrastructure from CPU to rack

At the OCP Global Summit 2026, Arm demonstrated deployment implementations for its AGI CPU across modular data center rack systems. Partner hardware included Supermicro liquid-cooled chassis accommodating up to 336 processors across Open Rack standards, alongside integration with Meta's Yosemite YV5 specification.

Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark

NVIDIA has introduced RTX Spark, a personal computing platform designed for local artificial intelligence tasks, creative software, and gaming. Hardware running on the platform includes mobile systems such as the ASUS ProArt P14, with physical demonstrations scheduled across multiple international retail locations.

Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models

NVIDIA has introduced three open models to its Nemotron 3.5 series. The lineup features the 120-billion-parameter Super VL multimodal model alongside two edge-oriented variants, Bolt 74B-A9B and Bolt E4B, which are designed for 24GB and 4GB memory envelopes respectively. The software targets workloads ranging from cloud servers down to local workstation and embedded environments.

“Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are available now, with Bolt E4B coming Oct. 23.” — NVIDIA

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Dial Up the Cloud: NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Controls Arrive on GeForce NOW

Nvidia has added DLSS 4.5 configuration settings to its GeForce NOW streaming platform across Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and Steam OS. The update enables subscribers to adjust image scaling, Ray Reconstruction, and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, offering up to 4X frame generation on cloud virtual machines equipped with RTX 5080 hardware.

“Ultimate members streaming on GeForce RTX 5080-powered cloud rigs benefit from the maximum available options, including Dynamic Multi Frame Generation up to 4X.” — NVIDIA

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Open up to new possibilities with iPhone Duo

Apple has announced the pre-order schedule for the iPhone Duo. Customers can begin placing orders on October 16 at 5 a.m. PT through the company's website and retail application.

“Beginning Friday, October 16, at 5 a.m. PT, customers can pre-order iPhone Duo on apple.com and in the Apple Store app.” — Apple