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Nvidia doesn’t just want to sell you the shovels anymore. It wants to dig the gold too. Buried inside a financial filing and confirmed by executives in interviews with WIRED, Nvidia plans to spend $26 billion over five years building open-weight AI models. To prove this isn’t vaporware, they simultaneously dropped Nemotron 3 Super — a 128-billion-parameter beast with a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture that’s already topping agentic AI benchmarks. This is the most strategically significant move in AI since Meta released the original Llama. Here’s why it matters. ...

There’s a moment in every technology wave where someone takes a floating concept and packages it so cleanly that the mainstream has to pay attention. For AI agents, that moment might be right now — and it’s coming from the company that’s been quietly eating Google’s lunch. Perplexity dropped two products at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that could reshape how we think about computers entirely. The first is called Personal Computer. The second is Computer for Enterprise. And if even half their internal claims hold up, we’re looking at a genuine inflection point. ...

Forget March Madness. The real buzzer-beater lands Monday when Jensen Huang takes the stage at San Jose’s SAP Center for GTC 2026 — and the pre-game leaks suggest this could be the most consequential tech keynote in years. NVIDIA is now the world’s most valuable company at roughly $4.6 trillion. GTC has evolved from a niche developer gathering into a market-moving, policy-shaping global event. Nearly 20,000 attendees from 190 countries. Millions on the livestream. And an entire industry holding its breath. ...

NVIDIA just wrote another $2 billion check. This time it’s going to Nebius Group, a Dutch-headquartered AI cloud company that crawled out of the wreckage of Russia’s Yandex. Nebius stock popped 16% on the news. And somewhere, a critic muttered something about circular investments. They’re not wrong. But the story is more interesting than that. What Is Nebius? Nebius isn’t your typical cloud startup. After Yandex split its international operations amid geopolitical fallout, Nebius rebranded, relocated to Amsterdam, and went all-in on AI-specific cloud infrastructure. No general-purpose computing. No email hosting. Every server optimized for one thing: running AI workloads. ...

The future of AI warfare isn’t a hypothetical anymore. It’s running live ops in Iran. Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, confirmed this week that the military is actively using “a variety of advanced AI tools” in Operation Epic Fury — the massive air campaign against Iran that’s struck over 5,500 targets since February 28. AI helped hit 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours alone. At the center of it all: Palantir’s Maven Smart System, with Anthropic’s Claude baked in. The same AI that summarizes your emails is now helping analysts prioritize strike targets in an active war zone. ...

When Mira Murati quietly left OpenAI in late 2024, the AI world held its breath. Now we know what she’s been building — and Nvidia just wrote a very large check to prove it matters. On Tuesday, Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab announced a multiyear strategic partnership: a “significant investment” from Nvidia plus a commitment to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-gen Vera Rubin systems starting early 2027. Industry estimates peg the infrastructure cost at roughly $50 billion. ...

Here’s the question that’s haunted robotics for decades: why can a toddler grab a toy they’ve never seen, but a million-dollar robot arm locks up the moment something shifts two inches? Rhoda AI just bet $450 million it has the answer. The Palo Alto startup emerged from 18 months of stealth on Tuesday with a Series A that values the company at $1.7 billion. Their play: a robot intelligence platform called FutureVision that learns how the physical world works by watching hundreds of millions of internet videos, then uses that understanding to predict and react in real time. ...

We spent two years teaching AI to write code at superhuman speed. Now we need AI to check that code because humans can’t keep up. Welcome to 2026. The Quality Problem Nobody Wanted to Admit On Monday, Anthropic launched Code Review — a multi-agent system baked into Claude Code that automatically analyzes pull requests, flags logic errors, and ranks bugs by severity before a human reviewer touches the code. It’s live now for Teams and Enterprise customers. ...

The biggest AI company your parents have never heard of just picked a fight with the United States Department of Defense. And the outcome could determine what AI looks like for the rest of the decade. On Monday, Anthropic — the company behind Claude, one of the world’s most capable AI systems — filed two federal lawsuits against the Pentagon, the Trump administration, and 16 government agencies. The trigger: the Defense Department slapped Anthropic with a “supply chain risk” designation, a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei or Kaspersky. ...

Everyone’s talking about the latest AI models. The chatbots. The agents. The demos that make your jaw drop. But here’s the thing nobody at your dinner party is discussing: none of it works without an absurd amount of GPU compute, and a scrappy UK startup just raised the largest single equity round in European history to make sure that compute exists. On Monday, Nscale announced a $2 billion Series C at a $14.6 billion valuation — more than doubling its Series B from just six months ago. The round was led by Norway’s Aker ASA and 8090 Industries, with participation from Nvidia, Dell, Citadel, Jane Street, Lenovo, Nokia, and Point72. ...