UC Santa Cruz accelerates coastal flood mapping with NVIDIA GPUs

UC Santa Cruz researchers are using NVIDIA RTX GPUs and CUDA-X tools to speed up high-resolution coastal flood modeling and build interactive visualizations that test nature-based solutions. The work is scaling from California to small-island developing states and is informing reef insurance and state adaptation planning.
Austria becomes latest battleground against Clearview artificial intelligence for harvesting billions of online images

Austrian privacy group noyb filed a criminal complaint accusing Clearview artificial intelligence of illegally collecting photos and videos of EU residents to build its facial recognition database. The case could test criminal enforcement of GDPR against a non-EU company.
NVIDIA IGX Thor robotics processor brings real-time physical Artificial Intelligence to the industrial and medical edge

NVIDIA unveiled IGX Thor, an industrial-grade platform designed to run real-time physical Artificial Intelligence at the edge with major gains over IGX Orin. Early adopters span rail, robotics, aviation and healthcare, with production systems expected in December.
Lilly deploys largest pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence factory using Nvidia Blackwell-based DGX SuperPOD

Lilly is building what it calls the largest, most powerful Artificial Intelligence factory wholly owned by a pharmaceutical company, anchored by the first Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with DGX B300 systems.
Nvidia open sources Aerial software for Artificial Intelligence-native 5G and 6G

Nvidia will release its Aerial software as open source, expanding access to tools for building Artificial Intelligence-native 5G and 6G networks. The Apache 2.0 code, available starting in December and backed by DGX Spark hardware, aims to speed research, prototyping and deployment.
Nvidia and General Atomics launch Artificial Intelligence digital twin to accelerate fusion energy

Nvidia, General Atomics and partners unveiled a high-fidelity, Artificial Intelligence enabled digital twin of the DIII-D fusion reactor, trained on leading U.S. supercomputers to deliver interactive, near real-time insights.
Nvidia and NPS deploy DGX GB300 to power Artificial Intelligence training and naval research

An Nvidia DGX GB300 and Mission Control software are enabling the Naval Postgraduate School to expand its Artificial Intelligence training and research through a new Nvidia Artificial Intelligence Technology Center. The deployment supports applications from mission planning and autonomous systems to weather and environmental modeling.
Nvidia partners with states, cities and universities to expand artificial intelligence education and innovation

Nvidia is collaborating with states, municipalities and colleges to broaden access to artificial intelligence, pairing new infrastructure with educator training and workforce programs. Early efforts spotlight Utah’s state artificial intelligence factory, Rancho Cordova’s municipal strategy and campus-wide adoption at Miles College.
Beyond agents: inside the Artificial Intelligence startup battlefield and what is next

Voima Ventures charts how venture capital is concentrating around a few Artificial Intelligence giants while Nordic and Baltic founders build across the deep-tech stack. The firm outlines the next wave, from physical robotics to domain-specific applications, and warns on bubble risks and the need for defensible IP.
Nvidia Artificial Intelligence physics speeds aerospace and automotive design by up to 500x

Nvidia’s PhysicsNeMo framework and DoMINO NIM microservice are helping aerospace and automotive firms run complex simulations far faster, combining GPU acceleration, digital twins and Artificial Intelligence physics to cut design cycles dramatically.