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NVIDIA Vera CPU Opens the Way for Agentic Scientific AI at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory will deploy three new supercomputers—Mission, Vision, and Veritas—built with HPE and NVIDIA. These systems use NVIDIA Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs to accelerate scientific discovery and agentic AI. Early testing shows Vera outperforms x86 CPUs by 3-7x on specific workloads.

“Vera CPU delivered 7x higher performance on URSA workloads than the CPUs in the Crossroads x86 supercomputer.” — NVIDIA

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From Materials Simulation to Experimental Astronomy, New NVIDIA AI Software Unlocks Scientific Discoveries

NVIDIA announced new software at the ISC conference, including the DAQIRI library, ALCHEMI NIM microservices, and cuPhoton reference code, to accelerate AI for science. These tools, part of NVIDIA CUDA-X, enable GPU-accelerated pipelines for tasks such as materials simulation and astronomical data analysis. cuPhoton demonstrated significant speedups in processing FITS data from the Rubin Observatory's LSST camera.

“cuPhoton accelerated loading and reading of FITS images collected by the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by 14,900x.” — NVIDIA

Eco Wave Power Turns Waves Into Watts With NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Digital Twins

Eco Wave Power, an NVIDIA Inception startup, uses NVIDIA AI infrastructure and digital twins to convert ocean wave energy into electricity. The company's technology attaches floaters to existing coastal structures, keeping sensitive hardware on land. Digital twins built with NVIDIA Omniverse simulate wave conditions to optimize deployment, while AI enables real-time predictive analytics and energy management.

“Wave energy is one of the largest renewable energy sources that exists” — NVIDIA

Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI’s Biggest Machines

NVIDIA's Rubin generation of AI servers is the first to achieve 100% liquid cooling, operating at coolant temperatures up to 45°C. This closed-loop system eliminates fans and can reduce cooling energy and water consumption significantly, with potential savings of over $4 million annually in a 50 MW facility. The approach uses dry coolers and avoids evaporative water loss, cutting water use by up to 100% compared to traditional cooling towers.

“The NVIDIA DSX reference design for AI factories has zero water consumption — we have eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.” — NVIDIA

Intel Announces Leadership Appointment at Intel Foundry to Accelerate Development and Manufacturing

Intel appointed Seok-Hee Lee as executive vice president of Intel Foundry, reporting to CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Lee will oversee advanced packaging, system integration, and back-end technology development and manufacturing.

How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability

FERC issued a decision on large-load interconnection, affecting how AI factories and advanced manufacturing connect to the grid. The new policy allows large customers to fund their own grid upgrades and offers accelerated timelines for flexible loads. This aims to lower energy costs and strengthen the electrical grid.

“every 10% increase in state electricity consumption correlates with an approximately 6-cents-per-kilowatt-hour reduction in retail electricity prices” — NVIDIA

Apple announces changes to iOS in Brazil

Apple has announced modifications to iOS apps in Brazil following an agreement with the country's competition regulator, CADE.

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At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA Partners Reshape Advertising and Marketing With AI

At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA partners like Alembic, AWS, Criteo, and Taboola showcase AI applications for advertising and marketing. Alembic uses NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin systems for causal AI modeling. Criteo achieved a 2x speedup in model training on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

“Alembic will be the first Causal AI company to use NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin SuperPODs for enterprise-scale causal modeling” — NVIDIA

Sync and Stream: GeForce NOW Connects to Members’ Game Libraries Across Devices

GeForce NOW enables cloud gaming across devices, syncing progress from supported game stores like Steam, GOG, Ubisoft+, and EA app. GOG single sign-on and library syncing are coming this summer. Annual membership discounts are available: $35 off Performance and $70 off Ultimate tiers.

“One of the coolest benefits of GeForce NOW is I can take the same copy of the game I own on Steam and carry it to my iPhone … it’s super awesome being able to play a game on a multitude of devices without having to buy it again.” — NVIDIA

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France Advances Europe’s AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies

France's AI infrastructure is expanding with new data centers and computing capacity. Mistral is building a 44-megawatt data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, and a consortium has bid to host a European AI gigafactory. NVIDIA technologies, including the Blackwell platform and Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, are being deployed to support AI factories and cloud services.

“Mistral is building a new 44-megawatt data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, a commune in northern France.” — NVIDIA