NVIDIA Blog4545GeForce NOW launched 'God of War: E Day' this week, offering cloud performance with GeForce RTX technology, supporting DLSS and Reflex technologies. Fire TV users will be able to purchase GeForce NOW subscriptions directly, simplifying the subscription process. This week, the cloud platform added 10 new games, including 7 new titles.
TechCrunch · AISame story · 4 outletsGoogle has released two new TPU chips, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, for AI workloads, expanding its chip portfolio to confidential inference and larger memory capacity. The TPU 8tx was developed in collaboration with AMD, designed specifically for confidential training and running AI models, with hardware-level direct integration of security features; the TPU 8i Max combines two TPU 8i chips, doubling memory capacity, processing power, and bandwidth, supporting AI models to handle a wider range of information.
How the accounts differ:MarkTechPost states TPU 8tx uses TPU 8t chips paired with 5th gen AMD EPYC, while TechCrunch mentions it was co-developed with AMD for secret training and running AI models with direct hardware security integration.
The Verge · AISame story · 2 outlets6565Disney and Adobe announce collaboration to develop proprietary 'artist-led' generative AI model, supporting Disney's production process. The collaboration will give Disney early access to Adobe's latest technology for content creation in theme parks, cruise ships, ESPN graphics, etc. Both parties will use Adobe Firefly Foundry to explore AI models that fit Disney's unique knowledge system (character attributes, environment, visual style), accelerate work, and develop more creative projects.
NVIDIA NewsroomFeatured7878NVIDIA released the open-source world action model GR00T 2 on CoRL, built on NVIDIA Cosmos, trained with 100,000 hours of NVIDIA open-source first-person human data, and can complete 40 out of 50 evaluation tasks without task-specific demonstrations.
Why it matters: The original text provides the success rate of GR00T 2 on few-shot tasks and the training throughput improvement of Isaac Lab 3.0, which can be used to judge the extent to which simulation training promotes robot deployment.
TechCrunch · AISame story · 3 outlets6565OpenAI plans to merge the Chat and Work tabs in the ChatGPT desktop app, initially opening to selected users to gather feedback. After the merge, users will be able to explore ideas and let ChatGPT execute them on the same interface, while also being able to import files and plugins. Codex will remain as a separate experience. The merge will allow ChatGPT and Codex to share a token pool, but some users may need to reset the token limit more frequently.
AMD releases AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.2 Optional driver, fixes 10 issues in 'Immortal Wishes', no new game support or performance optimizations, targets RX 9000 / 7000 series graphics cards and Radeon RX graphics for Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.
TechCrunch · AI6565Amazon acquires Bee AI for $49.99 and launches Bee Frontier ($74.99) and Bee Eclipse ($99.99) smart accessories.
The DecoderFeatured7878Nvidia's open-source data engine Flora, used for robot video annotation, claims to label one hour of video for about 0.72 USD, while GPT-6 Astra is about 88.50 USD. Flora consists of three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, each responsible for action segmentation, context-aware description, and reward scoring, covering three types of labels: action description, step-by-step scoring, and task success or failure judgment.
Why it matters: The original text provides Flora's three types of annotation capabilities, cost estimates, and item-by-item comparison with GPT-6 Astra, allowing readers to judge the boundary of open-source alternatives for robot video annotation.
NVIDIA BlogCompanies are using the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory platform to integrate power grids with AI Factory systems, planning, simulating, and operating from substations to racks to solve the problem of power becoming the biggest bottleneck in infrastructure.
Ars Technica · AI5858Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra at its new product launch, featuring the Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, with a starting price of $2,599, equipped with 5120-core or 6144-core Blackwell GPUs and up to 128GB LPDDR5x memory, starting shipping on October 16; also announced the Windows 11 update, supporting local AI and intelligent agent workflows.
OpenHands Blog7575OpenHands Enterprise's latest version has added organizational-level features such as management credentials, usage, integration, and automation, and updated the interface aligned with Agent Canvas. Administrators can configure organizational key sharing, monitor usage through the 'Your Budget' dashboard, support OAuth authentication to connect to MCP servers, and achieve cross-organizational visibility and management automation.
Dify Blog7575Dify provides a platform to build, manage, and deploy AI workflows without complex infrastructure, supporting applications such as connecting internal data, triggering events or running on schedule, and generating industry news summaries.
