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Tag, You’re It: GeForce NOW Levels Up Game Discovery With Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ Labels

GeForce NOW introduces in-app labels to identify games from Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ subscriptions. New games this week include Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard, Tides of Tomorrow, and others. Premium members get early access to a Thor skin in Marvel Rivals.

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Making Sense of the Early Universe

NVIDIA discusses how its technology aids in understanding the early universe by processing data from telescopes and simulations. The company highlights the role of GPUs in analyzing cosmic microwave background radiation and galaxy formation.

Arm and Google Cloud redefine agentic AI infrastructure with Axion processors

Google Cloud announced new TPU 8t and TPU 8i systems, and introduced the GKE Agent Sandbox for deploying agentic AI. These are built on Google Axion, an Arm Neoverse-based CPU, which provides high-throughput, energy-efficient compute for AI workloads. Axion processors enable efficient inference and orchestration, reducing data preparation latency and supporting scalable agentic AI deployments.

“300 sandboxes per second per cluster at <1s time-to-first-instruction latency” — Arm

From Rainforests to Recycling Plants: 5 Ways NVIDIA AI Is Protecting the Planet

NVIDIA highlights five applications of its AI technology in environmental protection, including rainforest monitoring and recycling plant optimization. The press release emphasizes AI's role in sustainability efforts.

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI

NVIDIA and Google Cloud announced expanded collaboration at Google Cloud Next, introducing new infrastructure for agentic and physical AI. The A5X instances powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems offer up to 10x lower inference cost per token and 10x higher token throughput per megawatt. Google Cloud also previewed Google Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud running on NVIDIA Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs, and introduced confidential VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

“By combining Google Cloud’s scalable infrastructure and managed AI services with NVIDIA’s industry‑leading platforms, systems and software, we’re giving customers flexibility to train, tune and serve everything from frontier and open models” — NVIDIA

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Apple announced leadership changes: Tim Cook will become executive chairman, and John Ternus will become CEO.

Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer

Apple has promoted Johny Srouji to the position of chief hardware officer, effective immediately. He will oversee the company's hardware engineering divisions.

Arm’s global platform evolution to meet growing computing and ecosystem demands

Arm is expanding its model to include production silicon with the Arm AGI CPU, its first data center CPU. This move addresses growing demands from AI workloads and infrastructure constraints like power and space. Meta is the lead partner and co-developer for this CPU, which will be deployed alongside Meta's custom silicon.

Autonomous AI at Scale: Adobe Agents Unlock Breakthrough Creative Intelligence With NVIDIA and WPP

NVIDIA has expanded collaborations with Adobe and WPP to bring agentic AI to enterprise marketing operations. The partnership combines Adobe's creative platforms, WPP's marketing expertise, and NVIDIA's computing stack, including Nemotron models and the OpenShell runtime, to enable secure, policy-governed AI agents for content creation and customer experience orchestration. A live demo of Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker is scheduled for April 21 at Adobe Summit.

“A live demo of CX Enterprise Coworker — powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, including the OpenShell runtime and Nemotron models — will be featured during Adobe Summit’s day-two keynote taking place Tuesday, April 21, at 9 a.m. PT.” — NVIDIA

NVIDIA and Partners Showcase the Future of AI-Driven Manufacturing at Hannover Messe 2026

At Hannover Messe 2026, NVIDIA and partners demonstrate AI-driven manufacturing technologies, including accelerated computing, AI physics, and robotics. The Industrial AI Cloud, built by Deutsche Telekom on NVIDIA infrastructure, provides a sovereign AI platform for European industries. Partners showcase real-time simulation, digital twins, and AI-accelerated engineering tools.