Nscale, a London-based cloud provider focused on AI infrastructure, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NSCL. Its prospectus shows revenue jumped over 1,250% to $140.6 million in the first half of 2026, though the company posted a $1.02 billion net loss for the period and reports $56.4 billion in remaining performance obligations. Nscale rents out Nvidia GPUs to clients including OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, and one undisclosed customer made up more than half of its first-half revenue.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-18
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes will lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 in San Francisco, examining how startups should choose between proprietary and open AI models. The panel will weigh trade-offs in cost, control, and speed as both open and closed model capabilities keep advancing rapidly.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
A developer known as MAAN built a browser-based demo that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network using WebGPU compute shaders, hosted on Cloudflare Workers with adjustable settings and sample scenes. The port reportedly works on non-Nvidia GPUs and even macOS, using roughly 147MB of extracted model weights alongside a small JavaScript runtime, though each rendered frame currently takes one to two seconds. MAAN says the weights came from a leaked DLSS 5 library file and plans to release the source code on GitHub soon.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-18
Robotics startup Vsim, founded by former Nvidia Isaac Sim engineers Lu and Storey, has built a high-performance training simulator optimized for modern GPU chips rather than older algorithms from the 1970s and 80s. The resulting software is efficient enough to run directly on the hardware of their robot Freddo, letting it simulate tens of thousands of possible near-future scenarios in real time while moving.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-17
Speaking at a UK summit alongside King Charles III, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted the company would sell twice as many chips in the coming year compared to this year. This follows Nvidia's recent guidance of roughly 70% revenue growth for its fiscal year ending January 2028, reaching about $673 billion, a figure that already pushed analyst estimates higher.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-17
King Charles III hosted a closed-door meeting at Dumfries House with AI industry figures including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, executives from OpenAI and Anthropic, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and UK officials including new AI minister Kanishka Narayan. He urged attendees to rein in artificial intelligence before it becomes uncontrollable, warning that the technology could develop darker capabilities beyond its benefits to medicine and science.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
Pinterest is rolling out a beta feature called Restyle in the U.S. and Canada that lets users photograph their rooms and use AI to test new furniture, decor, colors, and design styles pulled from saved Pinterest images. The tool is powered by Pinterest Intelligence, which combines Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dynamo with open-source and proprietary models to enhance visual search and shopping capabilities.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
Lucid and ridesharing firm Bolt have announced a partnership to bring at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles built on Lucid's midsize platform to European roads, with Bolt owning and operating the fleet. Bolt aims to have 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform by 2035, though no launch timeline was given for the Lucid-based robotaxis, which will likely use NVIDIA's Hyperion architecture for Level 4 autonomy.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-17
Huawei announced at its Huawei Connect conference that it will release its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, six months earlier than the previously planned Q3 2027 date. The chip is part of Huawei's Peerium Computing Architecture, a system linking hundreds of thousands of accelerator cards via its UnifiedBus interconnect technology to build massive AI computing clusters for training and inference.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
Emerald AI has launched the AI Energy Management Alliance with Google, Nvidia and Anthropic, alongside utilities like AES, Constellation, National Grid and NRG Energy. The coalition aims to use demand-response software that lets data centers pause noncritical tasks or shift compute loads during peak grid stress, potentially enabling 100 additional gigawatts of data center capacity to connect to the grid.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
Lucid Motors and European ride-hailing platform Bolt announced a partnership under which Bolt aims to deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous vehicles built on Lucid's upcoming mid-size EV platform. The vehicles would use Nvidia's Hyperion compute and sensing system, though no autonomous driving software provider was named, and no orders or payments have been finalized yet.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
King Charles hosted a gathering of AI executives and officials at Dumfries House in Scotland, including representatives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, the UK's AI Minister and a Vatican advisor, to discuss how artificial intelligence could benefit society. He told attendees that the technology's creators are increasingly warning of its potential to develop darker capabilities, and stressed the urgency of addressing the existential risks of AI falling into the wrong hands.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-17
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