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Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees in Brazil’s highly regulated financial sector. Its approach includes ia.i, a conversational interface, and IARA, a governance platform.
Two engineers built Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex. Its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.
NVIDIA is joining the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers Initiative, pledging tools, training, compute access and collaborations for Europe’s research community. Its Deep Learning Institute has launched freely downloadable, openly licensed course materials with no enrollment, fees or deadline. NVIDIA is also collaborating with European AI factories to expand compute access for startups and SMEs, while 35 supercomputers under development across Europe are intended to serve over 3 million researchers.
Why it matters: The commitments address practical barriers facing smaller research teams by combining access to computing infrastructure with adaptable course materials and technical support for using those resources.
NVIDIA describes how Nordic countries are building a technology ecosystem around computing infrastructure, startups and industrial applications. AI cloud providers are projected to deploy 1 gigawatt of capacity across the region by the end of 2027, while Sweden’s Sferical One launched a shared supercomputer with 16 racks of NVIDIA DGX GB300 systems and 1,152 GPUs. The source also highlights Nordic companies using NVIDIA technology in recommendations, robotics, meeting assistance and other applications.
Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.
SentinelOne says OpenAI Daybreak has reduced malware analysis from weeks to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.
Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours using GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity. The AI lab builds agents designed to focus for days and improve with use.
Cities and partners across EMEA are using NVIDIA accelerated computing to build AI agents and digital twins for maintenance, urban planning and public services. In Côte-d’Or, agents support operations across more than 500 public buildings, cutting document search time from weeks to minutes and reducing total operating costs by 10%, with 30% targeted at scale. NVIDIA says local AI factories can help cities run applications while retaining control of their data, models and operations.
NVIDIA announced planned investments in Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente and Riverlane as part of its support for the U.K. startup ecosystem. The companies work across AI for biology, infrastructure planning, algorithm discovery and quantum computing. NVIDIA also announced a partnership with the Earthshot Prize, joining as a Global Alliance Founding Partner to provide compute and technical expertise to climate and sustainability innovators.
Google DeepMind and Singapore’s Government Technology Agency (GovTech) have delivered a Gemma model fine-tuned on local scam conversations and optimized for typical smartphones in Singapore. A lightweight classifier screens incoming messages before the model evaluates broader conversation context and triggers warnings about suspected manipulation, with conversation processing kept on the device. Training excluded private or personally identifiable information, using anonymized datasets derived from scam reports and intelligence feeds.
Why it matters: The two-stage detection pipeline offers a transferable approach to balancing smartphone power consumption with contextual scam analysis while keeping private conversations on the device.
NVIDIA announced planned investments in Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI and Pigment, which are working across healthcare, materials discovery, physical AI and business planning. The announcement adds to NVIDIA’s previous investments in French technology companies Alice&Bob, Gradium and Scintil Photonics. Across Europe, NVIDIA has committed nearly $10 billion to the technology ecosystem.
NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to OCP through its open MGX architecture and launched open source components for DSX AI Factory. MGX 1.2 supports rack deployments up to 250kW and adds standardized power, cooling and interconnect interfaces. NVIDIA and partners also announced facility and grid resilience specifications, Meta’s adoption of Spectrum-6 switches, plans for USFP optical modules with Cisco, and Falcon Transport support on future ConnectX-10 SuperNICs and BlueField DPUs with Google.
Why it matters: The specifications show how shared rack, cooling, power and software interfaces can give infrastructure builders a common implementation target as AI factories scale to higher power densities.
Atlassian and OpenAI expanded their partnership, connecting frontier models with enterprise knowledge to help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report found that 89% of respondents consider open models and software important to their company's AI strategy. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model (LTM), a 30-billion-parameter model fine-tuned by AdaptKey on open telecom datasets, and published the full fine-tuning workflow.
Startups in NVIDIA’s Inception program are building AI applications to support breast cancer care, from imaging and risk assessment to treatment planning. iSono Health’s FDA-cleared ATUSA system captures a 3D breast ultrasound in approximately two minutes per breast; the company says it is 28% more sensitive than handheld 2D ultrasound. Ataraxis AI uses digital pathology slides and clinical variables to predict treatment response and recurrence risk.
NVIDIA says AI factory return on investment depends on three factors: output capacity, useful life, and demand. Its platform uses full-stack co-design to maximize throughput per megawatt. SemiAnalysis AgentX data show Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers more than 30 times the throughput per megawatt of GB300 NVL72 and, on DeepSeek V4 Pro, can reduce cost per million tokens by up to 45 times.
OpenAI said it blocked a coordinated distillation operation attempting to extract reasoning capabilities from its protected models and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation. The source did not disclose the participants, timing, or methods used.
OpenAI partnered with America's Small Business Development Centers (America's SBDC) to expand practical AI training and local support for small businesses, and released a new report on how small teams are using AI.
NVIDIA opened applications worldwide for its 26th Graduate Fellowship Program, covering AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, robotics, healthcare, high-performance computing, and more. Each student can receive up to $60,000.
In its first year, Microsoft Research Asia's Singapore lab (MSRA–Singapore), Microsoft's first research lab in Southeast Asia, has advanced work in four areas: next-generation AI models and agent systems, domain-specific AI, AI-native research practices, and ecosystem and talent development. The lab works with partners in Singapore's healthcare, finance, and education sectors to explore applications including multimodal medical AI and self-evolving diagnostic agents.
OpenAI apologized for incidents involving Australian government websites and announced stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia's cyber defenses.
Mistral has opened a German hub in Munich, assembling a research team focused on physics AI and industrial AI, and plans to build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030. The hub will work with BMW on crash simulation and engineering AI, with Siemens Energy on industrial AI applications, and with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to use its wind tunnel to develop digital twins for automotive aerodynamics.
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship, providing $5 million in funding plus up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, and other organizations have made predicted 3D structures of protein complexes from more than 2,800 viruses freely available to any scientist through the AlphaFold Database.
Why it matters: NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and collaborators have opened predicted protein-complex structures for more than 2,800 viruses, showing a concrete approach to open science for pandemic preparedness.
OpenAI Academy is celebrating its second anniversary and says it will bring AI skills to more communities.
NVIDIA validation engineer Sakeena Fiza works in the data-center systems engineering lab, validating hardware before new products enter mass production. One of her earliest and most memorable moments was seeing the NVIDIA Rubin GPU enumerate successfully at the system level for the first time. Validation covers the full path from tray, rack, and cluster to production line and customer AI factory, aiming to find problems before customers do.
OpenAI has expanded access to its Daybreak program to the Ukrainian government to support cyber defense for civilian infrastructure.
At Singapore AI Day, NVIDIA and its partners showcased AI deployments across Southeast Asia. Singapore's HTX is researching public-safety AI using Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni.
Airbnb is expanding its use of GPT-6 Astra and other OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams debug, design systems, and ship faster.
OpenAI and Grab have launched the regional GO Forward with AI program, aiming to equip 30,000 partners across Southeast Asia with practical AI skills.
Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face full-time to build the MLX community. oMLX will transition from a side project to a funded, long-term effort, remain under the Apache 2.0 license, and continue under Kim's leadership, with a focus on improving stability and speeding up development.
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) is adopting EvalEval's Every Eval Ever schema and Evaluation Cards platform to share evaluation results publicly and improve reproducibility in evaluation science.
NVIDIA has launched DSX Ready, a certification program that checks whether partner products meet the requirements of NVIDIA's DSX AI factory reference design. The first categories are battery energy storage systems (BESS) and coolant distribution units (CDUs).
NVIDIA has introduced Halos, which it calls the first and only full-stack safety system for physical AI, spanning design, verification, and deployment.
At an event at the Grand Egyptian Museum, NVIDIA showcased Egypt's AI ecosystem moving from skills development to production deployments. Enrollment in NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute in Egypt has grown more than tenfold in a year.
OpenAI is working with an independent advisory group on mathematics and AI to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results. The article does not disclose the group's members, the scope of its work, or how it will operate.
At New York Climate Week, NVIDIA highlighted five companies using AI to advance clean energy. ThinkLabs AI uses digital twins and agents to reduce the evaluation time for grid-connection applications from 30–45 days to two minutes.
OpenAI and AARP are partnering to offer free hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults in 10 U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills safely.
NVIDIA submitted preview results for Vera Rubin NVL72 for the first time in MLPerf Inference v6.1, reporting up to 3.7× the throughput of GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and up to 2.5× on DeepSeek-R1.
Why it matters: MLPerf Inference v6.1 reports throughput, scaling efficiency, and software-optimization gains for Vera Rubin NVL72 versus GB300 NVL72, offering a basis for judging inference infrastructure value.
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA have announced the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), which aims to help data centers adjust power use dynamically to grid conditions. The alliance uses technology-neutral, performance-based requirements focused on measurable factors such as response speed, duration, predictability, and emergency behavior. It also sets out pre-interconnection load-reduction and emergency-response obligations, common technical standards and data sharing, faster paths to grid connection, and cost allocation based on actual system impact.
