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Perplexity, in partnership with Nvidia, has taken Computer, its agentic AI assistant, and brought it to the desktop in the The post Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it appeared first on The New Stack.

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and developers bringing their blockbuster titles to NVIDIA RTX Spark ahead of its launch […]

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Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational AI models have grown smaller and more efficient, adding numerous capabilities alongside language understanding, computer vision and audio processing. As more AI models compress in […] The post Nvidia doubles compute for entry-level edge robotics with Jetson Orin Nano 2 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Regulations will require new sites to avoid pushing up power prices by building renewable energy plants and minimising water use Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Planned datacentres around Australia may avoid strict new rules being proposed by Anthony Albanese if they can secure approvals in the coming months, amid growing calls growing for a moratorium. The prime minister is aiming to come to an agreement with national cabinet on federal regulations for datacentres at a meeting on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is crossing an important threshold. The conversation is shifting from acquiring graphics processing units to building complete AI factories that can generate tokens reliably, efficiently and at scale. This is the next bottleneck. GPUs may be the engine, but an AI factory is a system. Compute, networking, storage, cooling, software […] The post AI factories enter the execution era as Cisco and NVIDIA push rack-scale systems into production appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

In a proof of concept published in mid-2026, NVIDIA's AI Red Team planted a malicious dependency in a Go project, let it execute during a normal build, and watched it write a new AGENTS.md file into the project director…

The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework for deploying artificial intelligence across their entire infrastructure, Secure AI Factory with Nvidia from Cisco Systems Inc. now integrates rack-to-fabric liquid cooling supporting systems beyond 200 […] The post Nvidia and Cisco push the enterprise AI factory into the rack-scale era appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

The French AI lab extends its push for regional control of AI from Europe to the Middle East.

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OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically "have to make a trade-off between the two." First introduced in June, Jalapeño is an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) made in partnership with Broadcom. It's designed for AI inference - the process of running a trained AI model to complete a task or deploy an agent. To mea … Read the full story at The Verge.

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AI factories are moving from ambitious plans toward production, but the path from graphics processing unit acquisition to usable systems remains a race against time. Neoclouds already have customers waiting for capacity, enterprises are looking to bring inference workloads closer to home and sovereign AI programs are being built now. Those distinct buyer motions are […] The post Cisco and Nvidia take AI factories from rack to runtime appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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