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Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.

Faster Scientific Simulations with New FP64 Algorithms in NVIDIA cuBLAS

Many scientific simulations, from molecular chemistry to materials science, spend the majority of their execution time computing high-precision dense general... Many scientific simulations, from molecular chemistry to materials science, spend the majority of their execution time…

Zus Health Raises $33M to Make Healthcare More Connected

The Series B round was led by Drive Capital, with participation from Sanofi Ventures, HealthX Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), F-Prime, Maverick Ventures and JAZZ Venture Partners.

FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing air traffic…

Run GPU-Powered Black Hole Interferometry with NVIDIA cuPhoton

Imaging black holes is challenging because they are distant and appear tiny in the sky—for example, M87*’s observed ring spans just 42 microarcseconds. The... Imaging black holes is challenging because they are distant and appear tiny in the sky—for example, M87*’s observed ring…

Biosensors and Wearables Among MedTech Showcased at INVEST Digital Health

[Sponsored] ARPA-H portfolio companies in the Innovation Showcase included biosensor and wearable startups to monitor vital signs and to obtain patient data previously only available through blood tests.

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ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you

After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eligible US-issued American Express…

Jensen Huang's ouster likely traces back to Nvidia's risky business practices more than his personal life

Jensen Huang likely left Nvidia more because of risky business practices than anything else, a Wall Street Journal report suggests. At the very least, those practices made him enemies internally. The company offered cloud providers billions in financial guarantees for chip…

Pressure grows on Trump's Commerce Secretary Lutnick in fallout from Nvidia scandal

Scott Bessent told CNBC that several government agencies "were in favour of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months".

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang US politics – live updates The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the…

AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation

LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.

Older AI-estimated heart age linked to worse health outcomes

Having an older heart age estimated using artificial intelligence (AI) ultrasound analysis compared with actual age was associated with worse outcomes, according to results presented today at the ESC Digital & AI Summit 2026.

Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over - The Latest

Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent…

Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage

The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.

How Microcredentials Help Engineers Build Trustworthy AI

Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics, governance, and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the…

Run Native DLA Inference in Python on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Using cuDLA

AI applications at the edge often need to run multiple neural networks within limited compute and power budgets. NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (DLA)... AI applications at the edge often need to run multiple neural networks within limited compute and power budgets. NVIDIA Deep…

OpenAI rebuilt AI shopping from scratch with ChatGPT Wallet

OpenAI is taking a second shot at AI-powered shopping with ChatGPT Wallet after scrapping its first approach, Instant Checkout. Users register a card once and confirm each purchase through Face ID or a fingerprint, while actual card details stay hidden behind payment tokens.…

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!

New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.

Spatial arrangement of inhibitory connections shapes brain network criticality

In neuroscience, the brain criticality hypothesis proposes that neurons in the brain are arranged in such a way that neural activity lies at or near a transition point between two extremes: an ordered state where neural activity dies out quickly and a disordered state where…

Windward Bio’s Stock Market Debut Reels In $225M for Better Biologic Drugs

Windward Bio’s next-generation antibody drugs for immunology caught the interest of Sanofi, which bought shares in a private placement alongside the biotech’s IPO. Windward’s lead drug candidate addresses the same target as a blockbuster asthma drug from partners Amgen and…

Banks bar Chinese and Hong Kong investors from Anthropic IPO over US export controls

Chinese investors are shut out of Anthropic's IPO, Bloomberg reports. Banks are rejecting buy orders from mainland China and Hong Kong, citing U.S. export control rules known as ITAR. Similar restrictions applied during SpaceX's IPO, and Anthropic's products aren't available in…