Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model
Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model

Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200 more than the 2025 ROG Zephyrus G16 with a more powerful RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, which is currently available on Amaz…

Higgsfield launches enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA, claiming 78 per cent of Fortune 500 as clients
Higgsfield launches enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA, claiming 78 per cent of Fortune 500 as clients

Higgsfield, the AI video startup valued at $1.3 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the first enterprise-ready autonomous agent framework for marketing automation. Supercomputer 2.0, built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit and powered by Nemotron mode…

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue
Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken…

Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD
Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD

Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time ‘world models’, has raised $310mn at a $1.45bn valuation. The more telling number is whose names are on the round. The Series B was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google’s GV, EQT and the CIA-li…

Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity
Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity

Hydra Host has raised $100m to build the plumbing of the AI boom, and one of its new backers is the company whose chips it is trying to turn into a commodity: Nvidia. The Series A was led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia joining alongside ARK Invest, C…

Intel’s wild NVIDIA RTX chip could blow up the laptop GPU war

Intel’s rumored NVIDIA RTX chip could reshape future PCs, but the key details remain missing. The reported 2028 roadmap points to Serpent Lake, RTX graphics, and plenty of unanswered questions.

IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy
IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy

IMEC, the Belgian semiconductor research institute that partners with more than 600 chip industry players, has expanded its 300mm RF silicon interposer platform with three new manufacturing capabilities that bring 6G chip production closer to commercia…

Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’
Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’

The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to re…

Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn
Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn

The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate bond offering since 2021, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge. It is selling the debt in seven tranches, with maturities running fro…