Nvidia has introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing its open-source OpenShell tool with a hardware watchdog called Sentry to police AI agent behavior. OpenShell enforces policies and tracks agent actions with minimal overhead on Nvidia's Vera CPUs, while Sentry runs on separate BlueField-4 data processing units to isolate controls from the agent's own system and can reportedly quarantine misbehaving agents within milliseconds.
Two semi-trailers marked with Nvidia and PlusAI logos were stolen from outside PlusAI's Newark, California warehouse, but each contained 20,000 pounds of sand rather than GPUs. PlusAI, an autonomous trucking startup partnered with Nvidia, uses sand-filled trailers to simulate cargo loads during testing. The theft was discovered when a friend of a company executive spotted the trailers elsewhere and mistakenly congratulated them, prompting an investigation; the trailers were later found abandoned with their doors broken open.
A former technical advisor to NVIDIA, who worked with the company in 1993 on biquadratic texture mapping for its first graphics chip, says he recently discovered he was granted 25,000 stock options that appear never to have been exercised or paid out. He describes helping port his rendering technique to NVIDIA's early hardware and demonstrating it publicly before Microsoft's DirectX standard favored triangle-only rendering, which he says hurt NVIDIA's early business.
Best Buy is selling the HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop for $1,999.99, down from its $2,999.99 list price. The configuration on sale includes an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H processor, 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, an Nvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 8GB of VRAM, a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, and a 14-inch 3K OLED 120Hz display.
Two trailers bearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were stolen from the autonomous trucking startup's facility, according to Wired. The trailers, which were parked outside and secured only with hand locks, actually contained 20,000 pounds of sand each used for road-testing simulations rather than any AI hardware. The theft was discovered after an acquaintance of a PlusAI executive spotted the trailers near their workplace.
Startup WiCi is opening signups for the WiCi One, an external GPU that transmits graphics compute over Wi-Fi 7 rather than requiring cables like Thunderbolt 5 or OCuLink. The device, backed by Nvidia's Inception Program, can reportedly let multiple laptops, tablets and phones share the same GPU for gaming and AI tasks. Shipping is planned for Q4 2026, with an RTX 5060 Ti model starting at $2,000 for early adopters and an RTX 5090 version priced closer to launch.
GPU prices are climbing sharply, with NVIDIA's RTX 50-series up as much as 39 percent and AMD cards rising up to 10 percent, driven by demand from AI companies and individuals building local AI setups. Cards with large VRAM capacities, such as the older NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, are commanding strong resale value because they can handle AI workloads despite their age.
WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, an external graphics card enclosure that connects to laptops wirelessly over Wi-Fi 7 instead of using Thunderbolt or OCuLink cables. The base model includes an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, an Intel Core 3 100U CPU, and 1TB of storage, with a more powerful RTX 5090-based version planned. Preorders for the base model start at $1,999, rising to $2,599 at full release, with shipping expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, which the company calls its most powerful desktop GPU, now carries a US price of $16,000. That's up sharply from its $8,565 launch price and its earlier $13,250 tag, though NVIDIA has not explained the reason for the increase. The card sits above the consumer-focused RTX 5090 and is aimed at professional users rather than gamers.
Modder gebdag released GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that brings full path tracing, dynamic day-night cycles and 60 FPS frame generation to Grand Theft Auto 2 using Nvidia's RTX Remix technology. Because the 1999 game used legacy DirectDraw and early Direct3D APIs incompatible with RTX Remix, the mod includes a custom Direct3D 9 renderer built from two DLL files that translate the old graphics pipeline into something RTX Remix can process.
Microsoft Surface CVP Brett Ostrum told Windows Central that new laptops meeting the Copilot+ hardware requirements are no longer being labeled with the Copilot+ badge, even though the underlying NPU and performance specs remain. Devices like the upcoming Nvidia RTX Spark N1X and Microsoft's own Project Zenith are shipping without the branding, and Microsoft says it's scaling back Copilot's visible presence in Windows 11 while promising better performance and reliability, including optimization for 8GB RAM systems.
A newly published Nvidia patent describes an AI chatbot designed to help game developers troubleshoot optimization problems using plain-language questions. Spotted by Patentlyze, the system would let developers type queries like why frame times spike or stutter occurs, then automatically generate and run a diagnostic on the GPU and return results for the developer to interpret.
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