Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for NVIDIA for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Wide 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster, a broad three-story Victorian mansion in stark black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving with dense crosshatching on flat pure black, turrets at each end and a gabled center, warm amber windows containing campy costumed suspects in black and green leather jackets posing with a glowing GPU and a server blueprint, other windows crowded with stacked graphics cards, chips, cooling fins and NVLink cables, one window showing a small green stylized eye silhouette on fogged glass, center front doors open with a slim upright silver-haired butler in black tailcoat and white gloves holding a silver tray with a wax-sealed envelope marked with a tiny eye emblem, fat rounded extra-heavy white sans-serif title 'NVIDIA' above the roofline, playful spooky camp, no other text.
This Week in NVIDIA News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Vera Rubin ramps up: NVIDIA said Vera Rubin is in full production, with Microsoft receiving the first operational NVL72 racks and AWS getting its first Vera CPU server. NVIDIA also put Groq 3 LPX, a dedicated token-generation accelerator, into full production alongside it.
- Agents as the design target: NVIDIA pitched Vera and Vera Rubin as built for agentic workloads, claiming up to 30x more throughput per megawatt and up to 35x lower token cost than GB300 NVL72. SpaceX is deploying Vera for agent orchestration and code execution.
- Money and deals: NVIDIA reported Q2 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with data center at $89.0 billion. The Information reported a $12.9 billion deal to buy Hugging Face and talks about investing in Perplexity at a $30 billion-plus valuation.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to NVIDIA
Meet Portable Computer, Perplexity’s new local-first agent stack on NVIDIA DGX Spark. When running locally, Portable Computer offers one-click local inference setup and an optimized agentic experience for DGX Spark. Learn more and get started today:
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2092269109086126575
Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/perplexity-partners-with-nvidia-to-launch-portable-computer-a-fully-local-ai-agent-with-zero-token-costs
The first CPU built for agents is going to work at scale. @SpaceX is deploying NVIDIA Vera to accelerate the orchestration, code execution, and data processing that powers its next generation of agentic AI … keeping GPUs fed and agents acting fast. From gigawatt AI factories”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2091920680317046847
Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with no instructions, explicit rules, or stated goals.”
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231
Today Hark is announcing a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA with gigawatt-scale compute capacity on next-generation Vera Rubin platforms Hark is building multimodal systems that remember who you are and what you plan to do. Our work with NVIDIA will support frontier model”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092989234189869211
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-is-spending-6-billion-to-build-a-powerful-u-s-alternative-to-chinese-ai-c51c38cc
Nvidia just doubled an already enormous business: Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% YoY and 18% QoQ. -Data Center: $89.0B, +117% YoY, +18% QoQ -GAAP net income: $59.7B, +126% YoY -Operating income: $63.7B, +124% YoY -GAAP EPS: $2.46, +128% YoY -Gross margin: 75%, up 2.6″
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2092737142787084468
NVIDIA’s $108b Quarter | Tomasz Tunguz
https://tomtunguz.com/nvidia-q2-fy27-earnings
Nvidia Discusses Perplexity Investment at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-discusses-perplexity-investment-30-billion-plus-valuation-considered-tech-licensing-deal
The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That’s exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnetic piece snapping into place, a paper cup peeling out of a stack, a USB”
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2090832821036470626
SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028″
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2091939113008238838?s=20
NVIDIA Vera is heading to @awscloud. NVIDIA’s Ian Buck hand-delivered AWS’s first Vera CPU Server and Vera Rubin GPU to Willem Visser and Supreeth Sheshadri at the AWS HQ in Seattle. Vera is purpose-built for agentic AI: more tokens per dollar, faster results for users, and”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2092960847408583120
Very interesting new paper from NVIDIA. (bookmark it) It takes a closer look at evaluating agent skills. Enterprise teams are starting to leverage shared skill libraries, and the review gate is typically a scanner that checks structure, style, and security. NVIDIA measured”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2091869893339812222
📢 First ever on-silicon NVIDIA Vera Rubin performance measured on how agents actually run. ⚡ Up to 30x more throughput per megawatt and up to 35x lower token cost than GB300 NVL72. Agentic sessions are nothing like chat or summarization workloads. Context grows across”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2091904062077694153
From the show floor to the AI factory: Hot Chips 2026 was all about extreme co-design to accelerate agentic workloads … the most complex workload in history. Vera CPU, Vera Rubin, Groq 3 LPX, Spectrum-X Multiplane, BlueField-4 Scale-In networking. One full AI stack platform”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2092390101959479713
This is very nice work from NVIDIA. Like all high-performing approaches on ARC-AGI-3, it uses deep learning-guided on-the-fly synthesis of symbolic world models, i.e. navigating the world by generating programs to represent what you know. To be clear, like with several other”
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2090838046937645398
Nvidia Climbing the Wall of Worries
https://www.mbi-deepdives.com/nvdafy2q27/
Taiwanese prosecutors charge 9 for illegal exporting of AI servers to China | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-us-nvidia-ai-server-chip-illegal-export-511e9ae69d517c49f19512d45b1a8b0c
Inference on steroid: NVIDIA’s Groq 3 LPX is now in full production, adding a dedicated token-generation accelerator to the Vera Rubin platform. NVIDIA says it reached 3,400 output tokens per second running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token context in Artificial Analysis”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2091926070085759448
[2406.11704] Nemotron-4 340B Technical Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11704
China still continues to produce only sub-10% of incremental world compute. But their domestic production will have a big ramp up starting 2028. We talk about what implications this has for the discussion I had with Jensen:”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092718735576732102
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is ramping into full production. Congrats to the teams at @Microsoft who made this exciting milestone happen.”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2090944279103635481
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 production racks are here. The compute tray is engineered for fast compute, assembly, and serviceability. Manufacturing is 100% automated, and every tray goes together in one minute. Congratulations to @Microsoft on the first operational Vera Rubin NVL72″
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2092337107108770116
Congratulations to Josh Parker, NVIDIA’s Head of Sustainability, on being named to @TIME’s 2026 #TIME100AI list. Learn more:
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2093036251603734919
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – by Chester Lam
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-targets-risc
NVIDIA Enters Full Production of Groq 3 LPX AI Inference Accelerator Chips, Supercharging Vera Rubin With The Fastest Token Generation Speeds Ever Recorded
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-groq-3-lpx-ai-inference-accelerator-full-production-supercharging-vera-rubin/
NVIDIA is building more than faster GPUs. We’re building the software and algorithms that help redefine what accelerated computing can do. CUDA-X provides the specialized software acceleration industries need to build what’s next. Watch how CUDA-X libraries turn GPU compute into”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2091973784647451096
We are thrilled to announce that Groq will be among the first adopters of NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, deploying it alongside NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in our purpose-built AI inference Cloud. Groq is working with Dell Technologies to deploy NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX. When Groq brings NVIDIA Groq 3″
https://x.com/GroqLLC/status/2091908837305663688
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