Nvidia introduced the DSX Pod AI Factory, a shipping-container-sized unit holding seven Vera Rubin AI racks that weighs about 28,000 kilograms and can be transported by truck. The pods arrive pre-assembled with cabling and liquid cooling, requiring only placement, connection and testing on-site, which Nvidia says cuts data center setup time from six months to 14 days. Manufacturing partners including Foxconn, Gigabyte, Lenovo, HPE, Quanta and Pegatron will build the units, with deliveries starting in early 2027.
ServiceNow and Nvidia have launched Arc, an AI agent first announced in May, making it generally available for Mac devices, with Windows support still to come. Arc is designed to run on Nvidia's RTX Spark hardware, handle everyday workplace tasks like email and Teams, and build memory over time to improve its performance.
Newegg is selling an ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt gaming desktop for $1,499.99, a $200 discount. The system pairs an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Samsung's 27-inch Odyssey G80HF, a 5K monitor with gaming features, is on sale for $599.99 at Amazon and B&H Photo, $100 below its previous low price. The Fast IPS panel supports 5K resolution at up to 180Hz or 1440p at up to 360Hz, with Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium compatibility, a 1ms response time, DisplayPort 2.1, two HDMI 2.1 ports, and a USB hub.
Greenpeace activists disrupted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC Berlin, standing on chairs with a banner reading 'Nvidia, clean up your dirty business!' and shouting questions about Nvidia chips allegedly found in Russian drones and missiles, plus broader environmental concerns. Security removed the protesters as Huang told them 'It's okay, go easy' and 'I'll talk to you later.' The confrontation follows reports that Nvidia Jetson Orin chips have turned up in Russia's S-71 'Monochrome' weapon and other autonomous drones.
Nvidia released GPU driver 621.01, enabling Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, a DirectX 12/Windows 11 technology that precompiles shaders in the cloud instead of on a player's PC. Gears of War: E-Day and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 support the feature when downloaded through the Xbox PC app, even if purchased on Steam, and it's also supported on AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 drivers.
Nvidia released an updated DLSS 5 neural rendering model that shrinks the number of parameters by 24%, halving execution time and cutting VRAM usage by 20% while claiming similar image quality. Testing in NBA 2K27, the only game currently shipping with DLSS 5, showed the RTX 5080 jumping from 53 FPS to 78 FPS at 4K with the feature enabled, a 47% gain, though frame rates remain well below running without DLSS 5 at all.
Google announced TorchTPU, a version of the PyTorch framework built to run on its Tensor Processing Units, letting developers shift existing PyTorch-based AI apps to Google Cloud with a simple configuration change rather than a rewrite. The move follows Amazon's release a day earlier of TorchNeuron, its own PyTorch variant for AWS's Trainium chips, and Amazon's submission of code to decouple PyTorch features from Nvidia hardware.
Amulya Vishwanath, founder of physical AI-focused VC firm Techable Ventures and a former Nvidia product marketer, told TechCrunch's Equity podcast that robotics is not yet at its 'ChatGPT moment' but is instead assembling foundational building blocks like actuators and robotic hands. She said general- and special-purpose robots are being developed now and will improve as these components mature, drawing parallels to the internet era and Industrial Revolution. She also emphasized that attracting talent, much of which is going to firms like Anthropic and Nvidia, is a critical factor for robotics startups.
Nscale is negotiating a new agreement with Anthropic worth roughly $45 billion to supply AI computing capacity, according to a source cited by Reuters. The deal would cover a second building at Nscale's Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, providing 460 megawatts of power using Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips. This follows an earlier $45 billion deal struck in August for the same campus's first facility.
Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have reportedly placed orders worth over $35 billion for more than 3 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPUs, according to Reuters sources. The RTX Pro 5500 is export-compliant under current U.S. restrictions, but the order volume reportedly exceeds Nvidia's entire planned 2027 global production, prompting Nvidia to tell customers it can't fulfill the full demand.
AI cloud provider Modal has agreed to deploy Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPUs after preliminary internal testing showed roughly double the throughput of its existing AMD and Intel processors for agentic AI workloads. Modal says it will continue using its current CPU suppliers alongside Vera, rather than replacing them outright.
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