A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we’ve been collectively testing a small fortune’s worth of powerful laptops sporting this new “superchip.” RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia […]

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally
Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line, Nvidia said. Each l…

Germany to announce AI partnership with Nvidia next week, sources say
Germany to announce AI partnership with Nvidia next week, sources say

Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of AI, Handelsblatt reported. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry, and that other partners besides Nvidia will join. The German…

Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia
Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia

Mercedes-Benz will develop its next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems with Nvidia, the two companies said on Friday. The announcement came a day after Volvo Cars expanded its own Nvidia partnership for automated driving. Bot…

Surface Laptop Ultra review: a different kind of MacBook Pro
Surface Laptop Ultra review: a different kind of MacBook Pro

After setting up Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, I spent five minutes just staring at it. I wasn’t surprised by its MacBook Pro-like design or blown away by its bright display. I was trying to work out what I’d actually do with a $5,900 laptop. This isn’t just any regular Windows laptop. Microsoft has teamed up […]

Nvidia and Apple each gave $25M to Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post says
Nvidia and Apple each gave $25M to Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post says

Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given. The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, wh…

Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia

Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.

Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving
Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving

Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia’s latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia’s autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can […]

Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record
Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in Stockholm that CoreWeave’s cost of capital is decreasing and that Nvidia does not need to backstop the company. On the same day CoreWeave’s five-year credit default swaps hit a record 1,194.5 basis points, pricing a more …

The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm

Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-down version of Windows on an Nvidia Tegra chip, bombed so hard that Microsoft had to write off $900 million in inventory. The problem was […]