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Satya Nadella says Microsoft will invest about $3B to expand its Azure cloud and AI capacity in India and train 10 million people in AI in the country by 2030 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest about $3 billion to expand capacity for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud-computing services in India …
Dutch chipmaker NXP agrees to buy TTTech Auto, a Vienna-based automotive safety software provider, for $625M in cash, aiming to boost its automotive operations (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
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Dutch chipmaker NXP agrees to buy TTTech Auto, a Vienna-based automotive safety software provider, for $625M in cash, aiming to boost its automotive operations — Dutch computer chip maker NXP said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Austria’s TTTech Auto for $625 million, to strengthen its automotive operations.
US bitcoin miners, including Riot Platforms, leveraged BTC’s recent price surge to raise $3.7B+ from investors since November, and used the funds to buy coins (Niamh Rowe/Financial Times)
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US bitcoin miners, including Riot Platforms, leveraged BTC’s recent price surge to raise $3.7B+ from investors since November, and used the funds to buy coins — US-listed groups tap investors for cash as competition for resources intensifies — US bitcoin miners are accumulating war chests …
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market to reach $38B in 20 years (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market to reach $38B in 20 years — Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters, says the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG, with “small language models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters, says the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG, with “small language models” — Nvidia has spent the last two years showing off its digital “ACE” characters that can have in-game conversations with you using generative AI.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” (Will Knight/Wired)
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking; hands moving, manipulating things.”
Nvidia announces early access to Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, enabling smarter autonomous machines with generative AI, via APIs for select devs like Accenture (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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Nvidia announces early access to Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, enabling smarter autonomous machines with generative AI, via APIs for select devs like Accenture — Nvidia announced early access for Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX software to enable smarter autonomous machines with generative AI.
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free
Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face — Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
