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The Chip Manufacturing Paradox: Why AI Companies Are Building Their Own Fabs Instead of Buying More GPUs

Elon Musk's $20 billion Terafab announcement signals a fundamental shift in the AI industry's supply chain strategy. As computing demands explode and export restrictions tighten, major AI players are abandoning the traditional customer-supplier model in favor of vertical integration—with profound implications for NVIDIA, geopolitics, and the future cost of intelligence.

Creative Robotics2d agoOriginal

Three people have been charged with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China

The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged three people with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. NVIDIA's chips have...

Engadget4d ago

Engadget Podcast: Why does everyone hate NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI upscaling?

NVIDIA announced DLSS 5 at its GTC conference, a new AI upscaling technology that uses neural processing to deliver photorealistic lighting and materials in games, departing from previous DLSS versions focused on resolution upscaling and frame generation. The announcement sparked significant online backlash from gamers who were critical of the new direction, with industry analysts weighing in on the technology's reception and implementation.

Engadget4d ago

The Download: The Pentagon's new AI plans, and next-gen nuclear reactors

The Pentagon is planning to establish secure environments allowing generative AI companies to train military-specific models on classified data, marking a significant escalation in AI's role in defense operations. The article also covers multiple AI policy and deployment developments, including regulatory concerns about Anthropic, Nvidia's new privacy-focused AI agent platform, and DeepSeek's next-generation model testing.

MIT Technology Review AI6d ago

Engadget Podcast: Why does everyone hate NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI upscaling?

NVIDIA announced DLSS 5 at its GTC conference, a new AI upscaling technology that uses neural processing to deliver photorealistic lighting and materials in games. The announcement has generated significant backlash from gamers online, who are critical of how the technology differs from previous DLSS versions that focused on machine learning-based resolution upscaling and frame generation.

Engadget4d ago

Rivian will provide 50,000 robotaxis to Uber in a deal worth $1.25 billion

Rivian and Uber announced a major partnership where Rivian will provide 50,000 robotaxis to Uber in a deal worth $1.25 billion, starting with 10,000 R2 robotaxis to be deployed in San Francisco and Miami by 2028. The partnership is part of Uber's broader autonomous vehicle strategy, which also includes collaborations with NVIDIA, Waymo, Lucid, and Nuro to scale robotaxis across 25+ cities by 2031.

Engadget5d ago

The Open Source Paradox: Why Tech Giants Are Suddenly Betting on Transparency

From NVIDIA's NemoClaw platform to DeepMind's decade of AlphaGo research sharing, major AI companies are increasingly embracing open-source approaches. This strategic shift reveals a fundamental tension in the industry: the more powerful AI becomes, the more companies need collaborative development to manage risk, interoperability, and trust.

Creative Robotics3/10/2026Original

Gamers are right to be disgusted by NVIDIA's DLSS 5

You can sum up the gamer response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 announcement with the ever-relevant Fallout 4 meme: "Everyone disliked that." Across social media and Reddit last night, I couldn't find anyone who...

Engadget3/17/2026

NVIDIA and Bolt team up for European robotaxis

NVIDIA and European rideshare company Bolt announced a partnership to develop autonomous vehicles, with Bolt providing real-world driving data to train NVIDIA's AI models. Bolt will use NVIDIA's Cosmos, Omniverse, Alpamayo, and Drive Hyperion platforms to build a learning engine for autonomous mobility services tailored to European roads.

Engadget3/16/2026

Scaling AI for everyone

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, with major investments from SoftBank ($30B), NVIDIA ($30B), and Amazon ($50B), along with strategic partnerships to expand AI infrastructure and global reach. The company reported significant user growth across its products, including 1.6M weekly Codex users, 9M paying ChatGPT business users, and over 900M weekly active ChatGPT users with 50M+ consumer subscribers, as it aims to scale frontier AI systems for broader adoption.

OpenAI Blog2/27/2026

NVIDIA claims DLSS 5 will deliver 'photoreal' image quality with AI this fall

NVIDIA has announced DLSS 5, its next-generation upscaling technology launching this fall, which uses a real-time neural rendering AI model to enhance game graphics with photoreal lighting and materials. The technology processes a game's color and motion vectors to generate enhanced visuals up to 4K resolution, demonstrated in games like Resident Evil: Requiem and Starfield at NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote.

Engadget3/16/2026

ByteDance will reportedly buy NVIDIA's latest AI chips to use outside of China

ByteDance is reportedly purchasing approximately 36,000 of NVIDIA's latest B200 AI chips through a partnership with Singapore-based firm Aolani Cloud, which will build and operate computing systems in Malaysia to circumvent US export restrictions on China. The $2.5 billion infrastructure investment will enable ByteDance to access advanced AI computing capabilities for research and development outside of China, exploiting a regulatory loophole that permits cloud operations in non-restricted countries.

Engadget3/13/2026

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

The article investigates the hidden human labor behind humanoid robot development, revealing workers in low-wage regions provide training data through demonstrations, VR/exoskeleton work, and remote tele-operation of robots like 1X's Neo. The piece argues that lack of transparency about this human infrastructure leads to overestimated robot capabilities and creates new forms of wage arbitrage and privacy concerns in the emerging physical AI sector.

MIT Technology Review AI2/23/2026

NVIDIA- and Uber-backed Nuro is testing autonomous vehicles in Tokyo

Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup backed by NVIDIA, Toyota, and Uber, has begun testing self-driving vehicles on Tokyo's streets as part of its broader expansion plans. The company aims to achieve Level 4 autonomy and plans to launch a robotaxi service with Uber and Lucid in San Francisco this year, while also exploring autonomous delivery applications beyond ride-sharing.

Engadget3/12/2026

Rabbit's Cyberdeck is a modern take on a netbook

When you think of an AI-forward PC, you might think of something like NVIDIA's $3,999 DGX Spark - a computer with enough computing power to run complex large language models locally. That's not what R...

Engadget3/11/2026

The Confidential Computing Gambit: Why Privacy-Preserving AI Infrastructure Is Tech's Next Arms Race

Meta's massive deal with NVIDIA to deploy confidential computing for WhatsApp AI marks a watershed moment in tech infrastructure strategy. As AI capabilities expand into sensitive personal domains, companies are racing to build privacy-preserving computation architectures—not just as a compliance measure, but as a fundamental competitive advantage.

Creative Robotics2/18/2026Original

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform

NVIDIA is reportedly developing NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform designed for enterprise use, with a focus on security features to address concerns about autonomous AI agents running unpredictably in business environments. The company has allegedly pitched the platform to major software companies like Salesforce, Cisco, and Google, with plans to potentially announce it at its upcoming developer conference.

Engadget3/10/2026

GeForce Now adds GOG syncing and 90fps game streaming in VR headsets

NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming platform has added a few minor but useful updates, especially for GOG and VR headset users, the company announced at Game Developer's Conference (GDC). The biggest...

Engadget3/10/2026

Nvidia CEO denies he's 'unhappy' with OpenAI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang denied reports of unhappiness with OpenAI and reaffirmed the company's commitment to a major investment in the ChatGPT maker, clarifying that while it won't be the previously announced $100 billion, it will still be 'probably the largest investment we've ever made.' Huang expressed confidence in OpenAI's work and its significance as one of the most consequential AI companies.

The Verge AI1/31/2026

AI data centers could reduce power draw on demand, study says

A UK trial demonstrated that AI data centers can dynamically reduce power consumption by up to 40% without disrupting critical workloads, using software from Emerald AI in partnership with NVIDIA, National Grid, and others. The study tested the data center's ability to respond to grid demand events over five days in December 2025, successfully adjusting energy use in real-time, with findings expected to inform NVIDIA's planned 100MW power-flexible AI facility in Virginia.

Engadget3/3/2026

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round led by Amazon ($50B), NVIDIA ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B), valuing the company at $730 billion. The funding includes strategic partnerships where AWS will serve as OpenAI's exclusive cloud distribution provider and both companies committed to significant computational capacity commitments, with Amazon's funding partially contingent on OpenAI achieving artificial general intelligence.

Engadget2/27/2026

Mercedes-Benz Unveils New S-Class Built on NVIDIA DRIVE AV, Which Enables an L4-Ready Architecture

Mercedes-Benz unveiled a new S-Class built on NVIDIA's DRIVE AV platform, featuring a level 4-ready autonomous driving architecture designed for future robotaxi operations. The vehicle integrates NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion with sensor redundancy, multimodal perception, and parallel AI/safety stacks to handle complex driving scenarios, and will be deployed through Uber's mobility network as part of a strategic partnership between the automakers and NVIDIA.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/29/2026

NVIDIA updates Shield TV after pledging further support

NVIDIA is a very busy company, and between all the graphics cards and AI-chasing, it wouldn't be wholly surprising to see the company forget about its more niche offerings, such as the Android-powered...

Engadget2/26/2026

Meta may trade AI chips for shares in its latest AMD deal

Meta has agreed to purchase up to six gigawatts of AMD's Instinct GPUs based on MI450 architecture, with first deployments beginning in H2 2026. The deal includes an unusual equity component where AMD could issue Meta up to 160 million shares (potentially 10% ownership) contingent on meeting GPU shipment milestones, representing Meta's push to diversify away from NVIDIA for AI infrastructure.

Engadget2/24/2026

Into the Omniverse: Physical AI Open Models and Frameworks Advance Robots and Autonomous Systems

NVIDIA announced a comprehensive suite of open physical AI models and frameworks at CES 2026 to accelerate robotics and autonomous systems development, including new tools for simulation, synthetic data generation, and edge deployment. The stack was demonstrated through real-world applications including Caterpillar's AI-assisted heavy equipment, LEM Surgical's FDA-cleared robotic surgical system, and NEURA Robotics' humanoid and service robots, all leveraging NVIDIA's Omniverse, Isaac, and foundation model technologies.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/29/2026

Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'

Meta announced a major partnership with NVIDIA to purchase millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, with plans to deploy NVIDIA's Confidential Computing technology in WhatsApp to enable AI-powered features while protecting user data privacy. The deal also includes Meta being the first to deploy NVIDIA's Grace CPUs in standalone configurations for inference and agentic workloads, supporting Meta's broader $600 billion AI infrastructure investment through 2028.

Engadget2/18/2026

NVIDIA's GeForce Now app lands on Amazon Fire TV sticks

NVIDIA's cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, has expanded to another platform. Starting today, folks with select Amazon Fire TV sticks can install a native GeForce Now app. While it was already possibl...

Engadget2/12/2026

Nvidia Introduces New AI Weather Forecast Models

The models come as part of the company's Earth-2 platform, pitched as the first fully open AI weather software stack.

AI Business1/29/2026

NVIDIA is still planning to make a 'huge' investment in OpenAI, CEO says

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the company will make a significant investment in OpenAI's latest funding round, though he clarified it won't reach the $100 billion scale of their previously announced data center partnership. The announcement comes after reports that the two companies were reconsidering their earlier nonbinding agreement, though Huang emphasized his confidence in OpenAI's work and vision.

Engadget1/31/2026

DeepSeek reportedly gets China's approval to buy NVIDIA's H200 AI chips

China has approved DeepSeek and other major tech companies (ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent) to purchase NVIDIA's H200 AI chips, with ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent collectively approved for 400,000 units. The approvals follow new US regulations allowing NVIDIA to sell H200 processors to vetted Chinese companies and reflect China's ongoing efforts to secure advanced AI hardware despite developing domestic alternatives.

Engadget1/30/2026

Introducing Sprout, a new humanoid development platform

Fauna Robotics, a New York-based startup, has introduced Sprout, a humanoid development platform designed to democratize embodied AI research and applications. Standing 107 cm tall and weighing 22.7 kg, Sprout features 29 degrees of freedom, safety-focused design, and an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin processor to enable developers to build general-purpose robotics applications in everyday environments without specialized expertise.

Robotics Business Review1/28/2026

Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty

China has approved imports of Nvidia's H200 AI chips for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent after weeks of uncertainty, allowing the three companies to purchase over 400,000 chips combined. The approval represents a strategic decision by Beijing to support its major tech companies' AI development while balancing concerns about nurturing domestic semiconductor capabilities and maintaining geopolitical competition with the United States.

Ars Technica1/28/2026

China finally approves the first batch of NVIDIA H200 AI GPU imports

China has approved imports of NVIDIA's H200 AI GPU chips after initially rejecting them, with several hundred thousand units approved for sale to three major Chinese internet companies following CEO Jensen Huang's visit. The H200 is NVIDIA's second most powerful AI chip, though the more advanced Blackwell B200 remains restricted from export to China due to US government regulations.

Engadget1/28/2026

Nvidia Invests $2B in CoreWeave, Expands Partnership

Nvidia invested $2 billion in CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure provider specializing in AI workloads, significantly expanding their existing partnership. This investment strengthens CoreWeave's position in the competitive AI infrastructure market and demonstrates Nvidia's commitment to supporting the broader AI ecosystem beyond its core chip business.

AI Business1/26/2026

NVIDIA Launches Earth-2 Family of Open Models - the World's First Fully Open, Accelerated Set of Models and Tools for AI Weather

NVIDIA has launched the Earth-2 family of open models, described as the world's first fully open and accelerated set of models and tools specifically designed for AI weather prediction. The release includes both models and tools that developers can freely use and integrate into their own applications.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/26/2026

NVIDIA DRIVE AV Raises the Bar for Vehicle Safety as Mercedes-Benz CLA Earns Top Euro NCAP Award

Mercedes-Benz CLA equipped with NVIDIA DRIVE AV software won Euro NCAP's Best Performer of 2025 award, achieving the highest overall safety score by combining passive safety features with AI-powered driver assistance systems. The DRIVE AV platform uses a dual-stack architecture pairing end-to-end AI driving with classical safety systems, incorporating sensor redundancy and achieving ISO 26262 ASIL D compliance for autonomous vehicle safety.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/22/2026

ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB, saying they've reached 'end of life'

YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “expl...

Engadget1/15/2026

How to Get Started With Visual Generative AI on NVIDIA RTX PCs

AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflows. Image models now deliver ph...

NVIDIA Blog AI1/22/2026

From Pilot to Profit: Survey Reveals the Financial Services Industry Is Doubling Down on AI Investment and Open Source

A new NVIDIA survey of over 800 financial services industry professionals reveals that AI adoption has reached unprecedented levels, with 89% reporting increased revenue and decreased costs from AI deployments. The report highlights growing investment in open source foundation models, generative AI, and AI agents, with 84% of organizations viewing open source as crucial to their AI strategy and 42% already using or assessing agentic AI.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/22/2026

Cerebras Poses an Alternative to Nvidia With $10B OpenAI Deal

Cerebras secured a $10B deal with OpenAI to provide its wafer-scale chips as an alternative to Nvidia's processors for training large language models. The partnership represents a significant validation of Cerebras's hardware approach and a potential shift in the AI infrastructure market away from Nvidia's dominance.

AI Business1/15/2026

"Largest Infrastructure Buildout In Human History": Jensen Huang on AI's "Five-Layer Cake" at Davos

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described AI as the foundation of the largest infrastructure buildout in human history at the World Economic Forum in Davos, framing it as a five-layer platform spanning energy, chips, data centers, AI models, and applications. Huang argued that AI will create jobs across the economy rather than eliminate them, as productivity gains in fields like radiology and nursing enable workers to focus on higher-value tasks while demand for skilled labor increases across manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/21/2026

Skild AI raises $1.4B to build 'omni-bodied' robot brain

Skild AI raised $1.4 billion to develop the Skild Brain, an omni-bodied robotics foundation model that can control diverse robot morphologies—including humanoids, quadrupeds, and manipulator arms—without prior knowledge of their specific design. The model uses in-context learning and training on human videos and simulations to adapt to different bodies and unpredictable scenarios in real-time, addressing the challenge of building general-purpose AI for robotics across multiple deployment contexts.

The Robot Report1/15/2026

Survive the Quarantine Zone and More With Devolver Digital Games on GeForce NOW

NVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements — including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire TV sticks, community-requested flight-c...

NVIDIA Blog AI1/15/2026

Caterpillar partners with NVIDIA to lay the foundation for autonomous systems

Caterpillar and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to develop AI-enhanced construction, mining, and manufacturing equipment using NVIDIA's Jetson Thor platform for real-time AI inference. The collaboration aims to enable autonomous operations, intelligent in-cab AI assistants, fleet intelligence, and advanced manufacturing systems including digital twins built on NVIDIA Omniverse.

The Robot Report1/14/2026

CEOs of NVIDIA and Lilly Share ‘Blueprint for What Is Possible’ in AI and Drug Discovery

NVIDIA and Eli Lilly announced a joint AI co-innovation lab focused on drug discovery, with up to $1 billion in investment over five years to combine pharmaceutical expertise with AI capabilities. The lab will operate under a scientist-in-the-loop framework integrating computational AI with wet lab experiments to accelerate molecular discovery and biological modeling for pharmaceutical development.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/13/2026

Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

"It's not helpful." The post Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI appeared first on Futurism.

Futurism1/13/2026

AI’s Next Revolution: Multiply Labs Is Scaling Robotics-Driven Cell Therapy Biomanufacturing Labs

Multiply Labs is advancing robotics-driven biomanufacturing for cell therapy by scaling AI-powered lab automation. The company is leveraging open-source robotics frameworks and AI models, including NVIDIA's physical AI initiatives, to enable autonomous systems that accelerate cell therapy production and research.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/12/2026

PepsiCo plans to improve supply chain with Siemens, NVIDIA digital twins and AI

PepsiCo is partnering with Siemens and NVIDIA to implement digital twin technology and AI systems to optimize its supply chain operations. The initiative aims to improve efficiency and decision-making across PepsiCo's logistics and manufacturing processes using advanced simulation and AI-driven insights.

Mobile Robot Guide1/9/2026

Siemens Unveils Tech Pipeline to Accelerate Industrial AI

The product releases come amid a tight partnership with AI giant Nvidia and increasing interest in using new AI technology in manufacturing.

AI Business1/9/2026

NVIDIA Unveils Multi-Agent Intelligent Warehouse and Catalog Enrichment AI Blueprints to Power the Retail Pipeline

NVIDIA has unveiled two new AI blueprints for retail: a Multi-Agent Intelligent Warehouse (MAIW) system that coordinates AI agents across warehouse IT and operational technology layers to improve inventory management and decision-making, and a Retail Catalog Enrichment blueprint for product data optimization. These open-source developer references enable retailers to deploy AI solutions across their supply chain and warehouse operations.

NVIDIA Blog AI1/9/2026