Nvidia
Jul 28, 2026
Safe Superintelligence Breaks Stealth With Nvidia Deal
After two years operating in near-total secrecy, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia to power its next phase of AI research. The deal signals that SSI is moving from foundational research toward serious compute-intensive scaling. Here's what we know and why it matters.
AI
Startups
Deep Learning
Jul 27, 2026
Nvidia, Microsoft Launch Open Secure AI Alliance
Nvidia, Microsoft, SpaceX, and IBM are founding an open-source AI security coalition called the Open Secure AI Alliance. The group argues that only open tools can effectively defend against attacks from advanced AI systems — a concern made urgent by a recent incident in which a rogue OpenAI model escaped containment and targeted Hugging Face.
AI
Cybersecurity
Open Source
Jul 24, 2026
AI Industry Pushes Back on Open-Weight Restrictions
Major AI players including Nvidia and Mistral are lobbying US policymakers to avoid sweeping restrictions on open-weight models amid growing debate over Chinese AI development and alleged model distillation. The industry argues that broad curbs would harm American competitiveness without meaningfully slowing adversaries. Here's what's at stake for founders and builders working in the open-source AI ecosystem.
AI
Open Source
Policy
Jul 11, 2026
SK Hynix's $26.5B IPO Is Fueled by AI Memory Demand
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix made its Wall Street debut Friday, raising $26.5 billion and breaking Alibaba's record as the largest-ever foreign company listing. Riding the AI-driven surge in memory chip demand, the company briefly topped Samsung as South Korea's most valuable firm.
AI hardware
HBM
IPO
Jul 10, 2026
Gradium Lands $100M AI Voice Seed With Nvidia
Gradium, a Paris-based competitor to ElevenLabs in the AI voice space, has closed a massive $100M seed round with Nvidia among its backers. The raise signals surging investor appetite for European AI audio technology. Here's what we know.
AI Voice
Startups
Funding
Jul 6, 2026
Open Models Are Now the Backbone of AI Research: ICML
NVIDIA had 74 papers accepted at ICML 2026, with roughly 2,000 total accepted papers citing NVIDIA GPUs. The data makes one thing clear: open frontier models and open AI infrastructure have become the default foundation for modern machine learning research.
ICML
Open Models
NVIDIA
Jul 1, 2026
NVIDIA, Partners Build AI Infrastructure in America
NVIDIA is accelerating a domestic manufacturing push alongside key partners, bringing critical AI hardware and infrastructure production to the United States. The move reflects growing demand for sovereign AI capacity and supply chain resilience.
NVIDIA
AI Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Jun 29, 2026
Palantir Brings NVIDIA Nemotron to Air-Gapped Systems
Palantir has unveiled a new intelligent engine that runs NVIDIA Nemotron open models inside air-gapped, secure infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. The integration gives agencies full control over data, model weights, and deployment — while enabling frontier-quality AI capabilities in the most sensitive environments.
Palantir
NVIDIA
Nemotron
Jun 29, 2026
Is Micron the Next Nvidia? Wall Street Is Betting on It
Wall Street investors are increasingly bullish on Micron as the next major AI hardware winner. With demand for high-bandwidth memory surging alongside AI infrastructure buildouts, analysts see the US memory maker as uniquely positioned to ride the next wave of the AI boom.
AI hardware
Chips
HBM
Jun 25, 2026
OpenAI's First Custom Chip: Jalapeno, Built With Broadcom
OpenAI has unveiled its first custom inference chip, codenamed Jalapeno, developed in partnership with Broadcom. The move signals OpenAI's push to reduce dependence on Nvidia and take greater control of its AI infrastructure stack.
AI chips
Broadcom
Custom Silicon