Nvidia's portfolio of equity stakes in tech and AI companies jumped more than tenfold over the past year, reaching $99 billion as of late July, up from roughly $7 billion a year earlier. The chip maker has committed over $40 billion to financing deals across the AI industry in 2026 alone, alongside separate pledges including up to $105 billion in conditional credit support for an OpenAI data center and a planned $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-04
Nvidia used IFA to confirm that PCs built around its RTX Spark Arm-based SoC will ship starting in October, with partners now including Lenovo and Acer alongside previously announced Microsoft, HP, Dell, Asus and MSI machines. The lineup includes a flagship 6,144-CUDA-core, 20-core Grace configuration with up to 128GB of unified memory, plus a lower-tier laptop-only chip with 5,120 CUDA cores and 18 CPU cores.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-04
Ugreen, best known for chargers and NAS storage devices, debuted its HomeAgent smart home system at IFA, combining camera storage, on-device AI processing, and home automation controlled by a new voice assistant called Uliya. The flagship MasterAgent MA100 hub doubles as a NAS device and smart home brain, using an Nvidia Jetson Thor T5000 chip capable of up to 2,070 TFLOPS of AI performance, with three hub tiers available.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-04
Hugging Face started as a teen chatbot app before pivoting to become a leading hub for open-source AI models and tools. Nvidia has now placed a $13 billion valuation bet on the company, underscoring its shift from novelty app to core AI infrastructure player.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-04
With frame generation disabled, testing on NBA 2K27 reveals that Nvidia's DLSS 5 imposes a large, largely fixed performance penalty tied to output resolution rather than in-game settings. On an RTX 5090 at max settings, enabling DLSS 5 dropped performance to 76 FPS, and lowering the graphics preset barely helped, gaining just 2 FPS despite a 5% rendering speedup elsewhere.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-04
Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers that most of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia—have underperformed the S&P 500 this year and now trade at unusually cheap valuations. He argued the group's earnings multiples have fallen out of step with their growth prospects, particularly Amazon, which he says is poised to benefit from heavy AI infrastructure spending under CEO Andy Jassy.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-03
UGreen has introduced three smart home hubs — the HomeAgent HA100, HomeAgent HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100 — that handle voice commands, camera monitoring, and Matter device control entirely on-device rather than through cloud servers. Each unit combines a two-bay NAS with dedicated video storage and varying levels of onboard AI horsepower, including NVIDIA hardware in higher-end models, with the base HA100 offering 16GB of RAM and 26 TOPS of AI performance.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-03
Ugreen unveiled a lineup of smart home hubs built around on-device AI processing, topped by the MasterAgent MA100, which runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform with 128GB of unified memory and delivers up to 2,070 TOPS of performance. The flagship carries a $20,000 list price, though early buyers can get it at half off, while the entire hub lineup supports ONVIF and Matter devices with Zigbee and Thread support planned, and includes NAS-style storage bays requiring user-supplied SATA drives.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia confirmed it will officially extend DLSS 5 support to RTX 40-series graphics cards, though the rollout will happen only after performance tuning for RTX 50-series GPUs is complete. The move comes after modders reverse-engineered and ported a leaked version of DLSS 5 to run on older cards, including RTX 30 and RTX 20 series, with mixed results. Nvidia also clarified that gamers will only get a simple on/off toggle for DLSS 5, while granular controls like Structure Intensity and Tone Intensity remain reserved for developers.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the widely used open AI model distribution platform, for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face will keep its brand and remain open to third-party models, clouds, and hardware, according to Nvidia.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia has released PAIR, a free open-source beta tool that connects compatible devices on a home network to pool their unused processing power for local AI inference and agentic tasks. It works with GeForce RTX 20-series and newer GPUs, RTX Pro cards, DGX Spark systems, and Apple M4 or later chips, running on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-03
MikroTik has released the CRS804-4DDQ-hRM, a compact desktop switch offering four QSFP56-DD ports for a combined 1.6Tbps of 400GbE bandwidth. It carries a $1,295 list price but typically sells for around $1,100, and the reviewer has been running it in RDMA backends for NVIDIA GB10 and GB300 clusters for months.
servethehome.com
· 2026-09-03
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