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Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment

NVIDIA outlines key economic factors for large-scale data center infrastructure, emphasizing energy efficiency and long-term hardware utilization. The company notes that continuous software updates allow previous generations of accelerators to stay in production alongside newer systems tailored for higher compute throughput.

“Microsoft’s NVIDIA V100 fleet ran 8.4 years against a six-year book life.” — NVIDIA

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NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000

NVIDIA is accepting applications for its 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowship Program, offering funding up to $60,000 for doctoral students working in fields such as artificial intelligence, graphics, and high-performance computing. Eligible candidates must have finished their first year of Ph.D. studies and participate in a summer 2027 research internship. Submissions close on October 30, 2026.

“The application deadline for the 2027-2028 academic year is October 30, 2026.” — NVIDIA

From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI

CoreWeave has added NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 hardware with Spectrum-X 102.4T Ethernet networking to its cloud platform. The infrastructure provider will also deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs, configuring 128 processors and 11,264 cores per rack to host isolated compute environments.

“CoreWeave’s deployment of Vera puts 128 CPUs and 11,264 cores in a single rack, enough for more than 11,000 concurrent environments at one core each.” — NVIDIA

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Final Cut Camera now supports variable aperture on iPhone 18 Pro

Apple has updated the Final Cut Camera application with an interface refresh and expanded settings tailored for iOS 27. The revision specifically introduces variable aperture adjustment functionality for the iPhone 18 Pro.

“support for variable aperture on iPhone 18 Pro, and more pro options with iOS 27” — Apple

New updates coming to Apple Creator Studio

Apple has announced revisions to its Apple Creator Studio application suite. The software package includes tools targeted at productivity and creative workflows.

Apple releases new guide to help families build healthy digital habits

Apple has collaborated with the American Academy of Pediatrics to publish an informational resource on managing device usage. The guide provides recommendations intended to help households establish balanced technology routines.

How Arm’s people brought the company’s next chapter to life

Arm is expanding its business model beyond pure IP licensing to develop production silicon, specifically with the Arm AGI CPU. To accommodate the new engineering and manufacturing requirements, the company has restructured and substantially increased its workforce across multiple technical and operational divisions.

“Arm expanded into production silicon through the Arm AGI CPU” — Arm

AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute

AMD has announced plans to acquire World Labs to expand its artificial intelligence computing portfolio. The transaction is intended to bolster the company's development of AI-focused technologies.

Arm and NVIDIA: Building the trusted compute foundation for the agentic AI era

Arm and NVIDIA are establishing a dual-layer hardware model for artificial intelligence agent workloads. General agent execution is handled by host Arm-compatible central processors, while independent Arm-based data processing units manage security, network controls, and isolation policies away from the primary compute environment.

“BlueField-4, powered by NVIDIA Grace with 64 Arm Neoverse V2 cores, provides an independent infrastructure environment beyond the host.” — Arm

How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic

NVIDIA collaborated with research institutions to publish modeled 3D protein structures for over 2,800 viruses within the AlphaFold Database. The computations were executed via AlphaFold2 utilizing the GPU-optimized BioNeMo Inference Runtime. NVIDIA has also made the underlying BioNeMo Structure Prediction Pipeline publicly accessible to researchers.

“NVIDIA is also openly releasing the BioNeMo Structure Prediction Pipeline, the GPU-accelerated workflow used to generate the dataset” — NVIDIA