The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
—Stephen Hawking
Latest corporate news, GPU platform announcements, Blackwell chip scaling, and market leadership developments from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA has used Europe’s JUPITER supercomputer to run a record 104-qubit simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum computing protocol under realistic hardware-noise conditions, helping researchers evaluate errors and more resource-efficient methods for quantum computing.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech AI model that supports 40 languages and combines transcription, speaker attribution, translation and contextual audio understanding in one model.
NVIDIA and Mistral AI are collaborating to develop AI-powered engineering workflows using accelerated computing, physics simulation and 3D modeling technologies.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled OpenShell, an open-source runtime designed to secure autonomous AI agents, and DSX Pod, a modular AI factory system aimed at accelerating data centre deployment, at the company’s GTC event in Berlin on October 21, 2026.
NVIDIA will provide $250 million in computing resources over five years to support AI agent safety and security research in the UK, including projects involving the University of Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London.
The company said Quasar 438B scored 43 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, ahead of Mistral Medium 3.5 at 30, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra at 38 and Inkling at 42.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the open-source AI platform will stay independent of NVIDIA hardware, while NVIDIA scales its infrastructure for more than 18 million developers sharing millions of models and datasets.
More than 100 Poolside employees, including engineers, are expected to join NVIDIA and contribute to its Nemotron open-weight AI models.
NVIDIA will provide credit support for 4.25 IT-GW of initial capacity at PORTS-Pike, where OpenAI will be the customer and SB Energy will build, own and operate the data center.
A working group convened by NVIDIA has drafted SAFE, a framework under which companies would confidentially report AI agent security incidents into a shared pool.
