Nvidia RTX Spark laptops bring local AI to the PC

Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip is arriving in laptops and compact desktop PCs designed to run AI models directly on the device. The systems, unveiled by Nvidia partners at IFA in Berlin, target users who want to use AI agents and other demanding tools without sending sensitive data to cloud services. Luke Larsen reports for WIRED …

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Nvidia buys the open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, bringing one of the most widely used platforms for sharing AI models, data sets, and developer tools under the chipmaker’s control. The transaction is Nvidia’s second-largest acquisition, after its $20 billion purchase of Groq assets last year. It also marks a major expansion beyond the …

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Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia is reportedly acquiring AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that could give the chipmaker a far stronger position in the market for openly available AI models and related cloud services. Matthias Bastian reports for The Decoder that the information comes from The Information. Neither company is cited as confirming the transaction. …

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Perplexity launches local AI agent Portable Computer with Nvidia

Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a version of its AI agent platform that runs on a user’s own Nvidia equipped hardware rather than primarily in the cloud. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the product was developed with Nvidia and is initially available for Linux systems with supported RTX graphics cards and Nvidia’s DGX Spark …

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Nvidia says Nemotron 3.5 Lightning can speed up enterprise AI agents

Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open artificial intelligence model designed for high volume agent tasks, alongside NeMo Switchyard, a tool that routes tasks between different AI models. Kyt Dotson reports for SiliconANGLE that the releases target companies that use AI agents for a mix of routine requests and more demanding reasoning work. Nemotron …

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Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra tops US open AI models but trails Chinese rivals

Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3 Ultra has claimed the top spot among open AI models from the United States. Maximilian Schreiner reports for The Decoder that the model scores 48 points on the Artificial Analysis intelligence ranking, putting it clearly ahead of other open US models. For comparison, Google’s Gemma 4 31B scores 39 points, Nvidia’s …

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DGX Station: Nvidia brings AI supercomputer power to the Windows desktop

Nvidia has announced the DGX Station for Windows, a deskside workstation it describes as the world’s first deskside AI supercomputer. Mike Wheatley reports for SiliconANGLE that the system was unveiled at GTC Taipei alongside the Computex conference and is planned for release in the fourth quarter of 2026. The machine is built around Nvidia’s GB300 …

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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a unified multimodal AI model

Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that combines text, vision and audio processing in a single system. Most existing AI agent systems rely on separate models for each modality, which increases latency and cost. Nvidia says its new model eliminates that fragmentation. The model uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture with …

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Nvidia launches NemoClaw to bring security controls to OpenClaw agents

Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, a software stack that integrates with OpenClaw, the autonomous AI agent platform that became one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in recent history. The announcement came at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose. NemoClaw is not a replacement for OpenClaw. It functions as an enterprise-ready distribution of the platform, installing …

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Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin platform and desktop supercomputer

Nvidia used its annual GTC conference in San Jose to announce a sweeping set of new products centered on a single idea: artificial intelligence is shifting from systems that answer questions to systems that act autonomously over long periods of time. Nearly every announcement at the event was designed around “agentic AI”. The centerpiece was …

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