GeForce NOW Ultimate expands worldwide with Blackwell RTX upgrade

NVIDIA’s Blackwell RTX upgrade is rolling out globally, bringing GeForce RTX 5080-class streaming to GeForce NOW Ultimate members. The upgrade delivers up to 5K at 120 fps, advanced ray tracing and Artificial Intelligence-powered performance on many devices.
Artificial Intelligence model trained on NVIDIA GPUs identifies over a million species

Tanya Berger-Wolf’s BioCLIP 2 is an Artificial Intelligence foundation model trained on NVIDIA GPUs and a 214 million-image dataset that maps traits across more than 925,000 taxonomic classes. The model is available open source on Hugging Face and will be presented at NeurIPS.
Three things to know about the future of electricity and artificial intelligence

The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook highlights a 40 percent rise in electricity demand over the next decade and shows how artificial intelligence, cooling, and the supply mix will shape emissions. The report warns shifts in where demand grows and in which technologies supply it.
Google advances Artificial Intelligence image generation for ads

Google introduced Nano Banana Pro, a new Artificial Intelligence image-generation update for Google Ads and Workspace, and added verification via SynthID and visible watermarks for generated images.
Physical artificial intelligence with NVIDIA Cosmos

NVIDIA Cosmos is a platform for physical Artificial Intelligence that provides open world foundation models, guardrails, and an accelerated data pipeline for developers building robots, autonomous vehicles, and video analytics agents. Models, tooling, and datasets are available on GitHub and Hugging Face under the NVIDIA Open Model License.
Winning hearts, minds and models: Brand building in an Artificial Intelligence world

Brands must adapt to a world where generative Artificial Intelligence not only creates new content but becomes a new audience-llms and agents that learn from and cite brand content. The article outlines practical shifts in search, content strategy and brand governance to earn visibility and trust in model-driven answers.
El Capitan retains top spot on TOP500 list

The 66th TOP500 list, unveiled at the SC25 conference in St Louis, confirms El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the fastest supercomputer following benchmark remeasurements. The list also highlights continued U.S. leadership, historic European milestones, and increasing global diversity in architectures and energy efficiency.
Windows 11 agentic artificial intelligence features pose security risks, Microsoft confirms

Microsoft is adding optional agentic artificial intelligence features to Windows 11 that can act on user commands, but the company warns they may introduce significant security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft rolls out Cobalt 200 cpu with 132 Arm cores

Microsoft introduced the Cobalt 200, a custom server processor for Azure that uses Artificial Intelligence-driven simulations during design. The chip promises roughly 50 percent better performance than the prior Cobalt 100 and wider customer availability in 2026.