Nvidia is accepting applications for its 26th annual Graduate Fellowship Program, offering grants up to $60,000 to doctoral students conducting research in AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, ro…
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This week in Nvidia · updated Wed Oct 07 2026
Nvidia this week advanced its AI and compute ecosystem through multiple initiatives spanning research, infrastructure, and applications. The company launched its 26th annual graduate fellowship program supporting doctoral researchers with up to $60,000 in funding, while major data center capacity from its Blackwell GPU line is being deployed in Paris to support European AI operations. On the software side, Isaac ROS 5.0 expanded robotics development capabilities for over a million users, and Nvidia released viral protein datasets with partners to support pandemic preparedness research. Regional expansion efforts also continued, with Singapore-based public sector organizations exploring Nemotron models and agentic AI tools.
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Nvidia Launches Graduate Fellowship Program With $60K Awards for PhD Researchers
Global Switch to Deploy Major Nvidia Blackwell GPU Infrastructure in Paris
Global Switch will house a significant Nvidia Blackwell accelerator deployment at its Paris data center facility. The identity of the end user acquiring this GPU capacity has not been revealed. This represents a major in…
Isaac ROS 5.0 Brings AI Agents to Robotics Development
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 at ROSCon in Toronto, adding agentic workflows and support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04. The GPU-accelerated package collection is designed to help the roughly 1.3 million ROS users buil…
NVIDIA Event in Singapore Highlights Regional AI Progress
NVIDIA held AI Day Singapore on Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, with training sessions and partner demonstrations. The company and its partners presented efforts to move public-sector AI in Southeast A…
How a Validation Engineer Helps NVIDIA Hardware Scale Reliably
Sakeena Fiza works as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, testing data center systems from initial lab bring-up through production. Her team aims to find potential failures before customers encounter them, including early s…
NVIDIA and Partners Release Open Viral Protein Dataset to Aid Pandemic Readiness
NVIDIA has teamed with Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to publish predicted 3D structures for protein complexes from more than 2,800 viruses through the AlphaFold Database. The dataset was generated using AlphaFold2 with op…
NVIDIA CEO and Salesforce Unveil CRM Reasoning Model at Dreamforce
At Dreamforce, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang joined Salesforce's Marc Benioff to announce Koa, a CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super. The model is post-trained on Salesforce's proprietary data and runs entirel…
UK Scientists Leverage NVIDIA Earth-2 for Real-Time Air Pollution Predictions
Researchers at the University of Manchester used NVIDIA's Earth-2 generative AI models to forecast air pollution across the UK, overcoming the high computational cost of traditional chemistry-based models. The team train…
Experimental tool unlocks higher power limits for Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop GPUs
A developer has released an experimental tool called NvpwrControl that allows owners of Nvidia RTX 50-series laptops to raise GPU power limits by up to 40 watts. The tool, available on GitHub, can push an RTX 5090 mobile…