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Powerful Compute So Compact, It’s Clutch — Build AI in Your Hand With NVIDIA Jetson | NVIDIA Blog

2 updatesPublished 9h agoEvents Jul 1 - Jul 1blogs.nvidia.com

Product Showcase

Sarah Guo highlighted NVIDIA Jetson developer kits, including Jetson Orin Nano Super, Jetson AGX Orin, and Jetson AGX Thor, for portable physical AI.

NVIDIAEvent date Jul 1

Livestream Series

A three-module livestream series teaching developers to build generative AI, Claw agents, and VLM/VLA models on NVIDIA Jetson.

NVIDIAEvent date Jul 1

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Product Feature LaunchWhatsApp Web

Published 10h ago

Meta announced audio and video calling features for WhatsApp Web, alongside cross-device call transfer, waiting rooms for group calls, QuickHD video, and background noise suppression.

Enables one-on-one and group audio/video calls directly from web browsers without app installation.
Supports cross-device call transfers between mobile devices, desktop apps, and WhatsApp Web.
Introduces a call waiting room feature with approval controls for group call links.
Integrates QuickHD for instant high-definition video and customizable background noise suppression.

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RegulationMeta

Published 14h ago

Meta confirms commitment to sign the EU AI Act Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

Meta confirmed commitment to sign the EU AI Act Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
Meta is collaborating with industry bodies including Partnership on AI and C2PA.
Meta will work with the AI Office on interoperable transparency standards.

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Business DealMeta

Published 14h ago

Meta and BlackRock announced a strategic venture to develop, finance, and own a 1-gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas.

Funds managed by BlackRock will own an 80% interest in the venture while Meta retains 20%
Total development costs are approximately $14 billion with $12.5 billion debt financing
Meta will provide construction and property management services and act as initial sole occupant
Data center capacity is expected to begin coming online in 2028

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Natural DisasterNASA

Published 20h agoEvent Jul 26

Dry thunderstorms ignited dozens of wildfires across central and eastern Oregon, prompting state air quality advisories and evacuation orders while NASA satellites tracked smoke plumes and thermal anomalies.

Lightning storms on July 15, 2026 ignited dozens of wildland fires in central and eastern Oregon.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured extensive smoke plumes streaming northeast on July 26, 2026.
More than 10,000 firefighters battled blazes that burned over 1 million acres in Oregon.
U.S. wildfire burned area exceeded 4 million acres by late July 2026.

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AnnouncementNASA

Published 1d ago

NASA announced coverage for three August 2026 spacewalks outside the International Space Station to upgrade solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and connect power and data cables.

U.S. spacewalk 96 scheduled for Aug. 6 featuring astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon installing hardware for the 7th IROSA solar array
U.S. spacewalk 97 scheduled for Aug. 13 to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna
U.S. spacewalk 98 scheduled for Aug. 25 to connect power and data relay systems and replace a docking navigational aid on the Harmony module
A preview news conference is scheduled for July 30 from NASA's Johnson Space Center

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Spaceflight MissionChris Williams

Published 1d agoEvent Jul 26

NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth after spending 241 days aboard the International Space Station conducting microgravity research, space manufacturing experiments, and repair spacewalks.

Returned to Earth on July 26, 2026 alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev.
Logged 241 days aboard the ISS during Expedition 73/74.
Completed 3,856 orbits of Earth covering over 102 million miles.
Completed two spacewalks to perform power system upgrades and repair the Canadarm2 robotic arm.

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NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse - NASA Science

0 updatesPublished 1d agoEvents Jul 27 - Jul 27science.nasa.gov

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Product AnnouncementMicrosoft

Published 1d agoEvent Jul 28

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced new cybersecurity updates including MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, MDASH, and Project Perception to deliver agentic security at half the cost.

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is Microsoft's first cybersecurity AI model for code vulnerability detection.
MDASH combines with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash to achieve world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models.
Project Perception provides an agentic security offering using specialized agents to simulate attacks, detect vulnerabilities, and remediate threats.

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Product LaunchProject Perception

Published 1d agoEvent Aug 3

Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Perception, an agentic security system designed to defend against AI-driven threats.

Project Perception enters public preview on August 3
Uses a multi-model strategy including MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH
Coordinates Red, Blue, and Green team agents for continuous security defense

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Scientific DiscoveryNeil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Published 1d agoEvent Nov 1

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and ground-based telescopes observed an orphan supermassive black hole shredding a star on the outskirts of galaxy WISEA J014656.04-152214.7, 750 million light-years away.

First tidal disruption event confirmed so far out on a galaxy's outskirts (30,000 light-years from center)
The supermassive black hole weighs approximately 1 million times the Sun's mass
Initially flagged in November 2025 by an AI algorithm analyzing Zwicky Transient Facility data
Followed up by SOAR telescope, Lowell Discovery Telescope, and Swift's UVOT and XRT instruments

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Product LaunchPremier League

Published 1d ago

The Premier League announced the launch of the Fantasy Premier League Companion, an AI assistant built using Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI to help fantasy managers.

Launches ahead of the 2026 Premier League season starting August 21.
Built using Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and GPT-5.4.
Combines official Premier League match data with Fantasy Premier League game data.

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Announcing the AI Glasses Impact Grant Recipients: Helping People Work, Learn, and Live More Independently

2 updatesPublished 1d agoEvents Jul 1 - Jul 27about.fb.com

Conference

A three-day summit in New York City uniting grant recipients, developers, and community stakeholders.

MetaEvent date Jul 27

Grant Program

Meta announced 30 recipient organizations across the U.S. for its nearly $2 million AI Glasses Impact Grants program.

MetaEvent date Jul 1

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Research StudyHubble Space Telescope

Published 1d ago

Data from two Hubble Space Telescope surveys shows star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline.

Combined data from Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury and Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury surveys mapping two-thirds of Andromeda's disk.
Measured approximately 200 million individual stars across the galaxy.
Star formation dropped from one solar mass per year 500 million years ago to one-fifth solar mass per year today.
Identified satellite galaxy M32 as a likely suspect for interacting with Andromeda's disk roughly 60 million years ago.

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Industry Leaders Join Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security | NVIDIA Blog

2 updatesPublished 2d agoEvents Jul 1 - Jul 28blogs.nvidia.com

Industry Alliance Launch

NVIDIA and industry leaders across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and AI research launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools to safeguard software and agents in the age of AI.

Open Secure AI AllianceEvent date Jul 28

Cybersecurity Incident

Hugging Face experienced a security incident where closed AI tools blocked essential forensic analysis, prompting the company to deploy an open-weight AI model on its own infrastructure to contain the intrusion.

Hugging FaceEvent date Jul 1

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How AI is expanding what people do at work | OpenAI

0 updatesPublished 2d agoEvents Jul 27 - Jul 27openai.com

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Product DeploymentNVIDIA

Published 2d agoEvent Jul 28

NVIDIA is deploying its Vera CPU across EDA workflows used to develop future CPUs and GPUs, collaborating with Cadence and Synopsys to optimize critical EDA applications with up to 1.5x performance improvement on selected workloads.

NVIDIA Vera combines 88 custom Olympus CPU cores with LPDDR5X memory and NVIDIA Scalable Coherent Fabric
Cadence Jasper and Synopsys VCS both showed up to 1.5x higher performance on selected workloads
NVIDIA plans to follow Vera with the next-generation Rosa CPU powered by the Rigel core
NVIDIA is using Vera in a feedback loop to help design future NVIDIA chips

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Space MissionChris Williams

Published 2d ago

NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-28 following an eight-month science mission on the International Space Station.

Landed safely near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev after 241 days in space
Supported scientific investigations including cancer research and in-space manufacturing of materials for high-performance electronics
Completed two spacewalks for power system upgrades and repairing the Canadarm2 robotic arm

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$Introducing Claude Opus 5 \ Anthropic$

Introducing Claude Opus 5 \ Anthropic

0 updatesPublished 4d agoEvents Jul 25 - Jul 25anthropic.com

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Play More of the Games You Love, Wherever You Play with XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC - XBOX Wire

0 updatesPublished 4d agoEvents Jul 24 - Jul 24news.xbox.com

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AnnouncementAnthropic

Published 4d agoEvent Jul 26

Anthropic announced a $200 million research fund to support ambitious external research and field experiments preparing society for AI economic impacts.

Committed $200 million to fund external research and large-scale pilots
Prioritizes workplace AI integration, workforce retraining, UI safety nets, pre-distributive capital, and public investments
Focuses on grants primarily in the $5 million to $30 million range, with a minimum threshold of $1 million

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Product LaunchMeta AI

Published 4d agoEvent Jul 26

Meta announced new capabilities for Meta AI, powered by the Muse Spark 1.1 model, enabling it to create plans, perform research, provide daily briefings, and execute tasks across Meta apps.

Meta AI is now powered by the Muse Spark 1.1 model to handle multi-step planning and task follow-through.
New features include daily briefings, research synthesis, slide generation, and real-time interaction steering.
Features are rolling out in select markets in the Meta AI app and meta.ai, expanding to WhatsApp and more countries soon.

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Mission AnnouncementNASA

Published 4d ago

NASA announced the CAPSTONE 02 mission to demonstrate rendezvous, proximity operations, and autonomous navigation in lunar orbit.

Targeted for launch in 2027 using two 400 kg small spacecraft.
Contract awarded to Advanced Space with spacecraft from Terran Orbital Systems, Inc.
Will feature an optical imaging payload from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Commercial PartnershipNASA

Published 4d ago

NASA and Blue Origin agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Testing is targeted to begin in fall 2026 on the B-2 test stand at NASA Stennis Space Center
Supports Artemis missions in 2027 and beyond, including lunar landing capability development
New Glenn second stage is powered by two BE-3 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engines
NASA will provide engineering support, equipment, workspace, and technical expertise

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Industry StatementSatya Nadella

Published 4d agoEvent Jul 25

Satya Nadella published a post outlining a path for open-weight AI models to strengthen American competitiveness, expand economic opportunity, and protect national security.

Called open-weight models essential to a healthy AI ecosystem
Outlined a path to strengthen American competitiveness and economic opportunity
Emphasized protecting national security alongside AI progress

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Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV - NASA

0 updatesPublished 4d agoEvents Jul 24 - Jul 24nasa.gov

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Scientific ObservationHubble Space Telescope

Published 5d ago

The Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed observations of intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 4654 in the Virgo Cluster, revealing asymmetric star formation and gas trails caused by ram pressure stripping and a past galactic interaction.

NGC 4654 is located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo
The galaxy exhibits an asymmetric shape with a long tail of gas from ram pressure stripping
A gravitational fly-by interaction with NGC 4639 around 500 million years ago contributed to its lopsided structure
Despite ram pressure, NGC 4654 continues forming nearly two Suns' worth of stars annually

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Product LaunchFacebook Verified

Published 5d agoEvent Jul 26

Meta announced Facebook Verified, a free badge for Facebook profiles that verifies real-person identity using a video selfie matching process.

Facebook Verified uses a selfie video matching process against existing profile photos to confirm a real person's identity.
The badge is free for eligible Facebook users aged 18 and older in good standing with Community Standards.
Badges will appear across Marketplace, Dating, Groups, and Profiles, rolling out in phases in select markets initially.

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Product LaunchMeta

Published 5d agoEvent Jul 1

Meta released Seller, a dedicated app helping Facebook Marketplace sellers manage listings, reach buyers, and track performance.

Seller syncs with Facebook Marketplace listings, messages, and selling history
Meta AI automatically fills in details like title, description, price suggestion, and category
Available on iOS App Store for sellers 18+ in the United States

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Product AnnouncementMeta

Published 5d agoEvent Jul 1

Meta announced Seller, a dedicated mobile app for Facebook Marketplace, along with Facebook Verified profile badges, Forum app for Facebook Groups, and reimagined Facebook Creator Studio.

Launched Seller app featuring AI-powered listing creation, unified inbox, and performance insights.
Introduced Facebook Verified, a free selfie verification badge for user profiles.
Testing Forum app for Facebook Groups with Admin AI and Group Ask features.
Reimagining Facebook Creator Studio as a dedicated app with Creator Assistant AI.

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Partnership AnnouncementNVIDIA

Published 5d ago

At the AI Summit in San Francisco, NVIDIA, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee, and leading South Korean companies and research universities announced expanded partnerships to build national AI factories, physical AI platforms, and joint research labs.

NAVER, Brookfield, and NVIDIA are expanding NAVER's NVIDIA DSX AI factory at GAK Sejong data center to 200MW with roughly 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs
SK Group and NVIDIA announced a $500-billion-plus partnership deploying Vera Rubin infrastructure powered by SK hynix HBM4 memory
Hyundai Motor Group is building physical AI platforms using 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion autonomous vehicle technology
NVIDIA launched a joint AI research lab for agentic AI with KAIST and an NVAITC research center with Seoul National University

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A Million-Panel Project - NASA Science

0 updatesPublished 5d agoEvents Jul 24 - Jul 24science.nasa.gov

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Space ExplorationCuriosity

Published 5d agoEvent Jul 23

NASA's Curiosity rover completed a week of operations on Mars including brushing and analyzing five rock targets, imaging erosional surfaces in the sulfate/carbonate unit, and advancing its drive along Mount Sharp.

Curiosity brushed and analyzed 5 rock targets using APXS and MAHLI instruments on its robotic arm.
Rover engineers safely navigated the rover along a drive path crossing 23 miles (37 km) of cumulative distance and over 4,400 feet (1.35 km) of elevation gain.
The team conducted observations with APXS, ChemCam, MAHLI, and Mastcam as Curiosity approaches the Yardang unit in Gale crater.

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Product AnnouncementAnthropic

Published 5d agoEvent Apr 28

Anthropic released new creative tool connectors for Claude spanning Ableton, Adobe, Affinity, Autodesk Fusion, Blender, Resolume, SketchUp, and Splice, alongside a donation to the Blender project.

Released connectors integrating Claude into top creative and 3D software suites
Provided a donation to support the open-source Blender project and its Python API
Partnered with RISD, Ringling College, and Goldsmiths to bring Claude connectors to creative computation curricula

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Introducing MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash | Microsoft AI

0 updatesPublished 5d agoEvents Jul 23 - Jul 23microsoft.ai

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Issue 05 | Signal Magazine

0 updatesPublished 5d agoEvents Jul 23 - Jul 23news.microsoft.com

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Product StrategyMicrosoft

Published 5d agoEvent Jul 25

Satya Nadella outlined Microsoft's strategy to route enterprise traffic across GitHub Copilot, Excel, Outlook, Copilot Chat, and PowerPoint to its in-house MAI models for cost and performance optimization.

MAI models are built with clean data lineage and trained against actual product harnesses.
Frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic operate alongside MAI in Microsoft's orchestration architecture.
Traffic is routed to MAI whenever model performance matches or exceeds frontier options at lower token costs.
Enterprise capabilities and RLE methodologies are made available to customers via Microsoft Foundry.

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Inside nonprofits using AI to extend their impact | The Microsoft Cloud Blog

0 updatesPublished 5d agoEvents Jul 23 - Jul 23microsoft.com

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Databricks and Microsoft expand partnership to help enterprises bring business context to enterprise AI - Source

0 updatesPublished 5d agoEvents Jul 23 - Jul 23news.microsoft.com

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Content ReleaseGeForce NOW

Published 5d ago

NVIDIA announced GFN Thursday updates adding nine new titles to GeForce NOW, including Capcom classics Dino Crisis and Breath of Fire IV, plus season updates for Path of Exile and Battlefield 6.

Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame launches with socket reworks and new Ascendancy content
Battlefield 6 Season 4 introduces Tsuru Reef, Wake Island, and Custom Lobbies
Capcom classics Breath of Fire IV, Dino Crisis, and Dino Crisis 2 arrive on GeForce NOW
Halo: Campaign Evolved Premium Edition prepurchasers gain Advanced Access before July 28 launch
GeForce NOW Ultimate members can stream games using GeForce RTX 5080 performance across PCs, Macs, handhelds, Fire TV, and Steam Deck

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Product ReleaseClaude Opus 4.7

Published 6d agoEvent Jul 26

Anthropic announced the general availability of Claude Opus 4.7, featuring improved software engineering performance, enhanced vision resolution, and automated cybersecurity safeguards.

Available across Claude products, Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry.
Priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Introduces a new xhigh effort level for reasoning control and task budgets in public beta.

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Product LaunchAnthropic

Published 6d agoEvent Jul 26

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, a state-of-the-art AI model for coding, agentic workflows, and computer use.

Available on Claude apps, Claude API, and three major cloud platforms
Priced at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens
Outperformed human candidates on a complex technical take-home exam
Introduces effort control parameter to balance response speed and reasoning depth
Released alongside updates to Claude Code, Claude Developer Platform, Claude for Chrome, and Claude for Excel

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Technology CommissioningNaval Postgraduate School

Published 6d agoEvent Jul 1

Jensen Huang and Admiral Samuel Paparo commissioned the NVIDIA DGX GB300 supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School to advance AI research and education for the U.S. military.

Jensen Huang visited Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California during the Converge @ NPS event.
The DGX GB300 brings on-premises large-scale AI computing to over 1,500 students and 600 faculty members.
Hardware and integration partners DDN, VAST Data, and Vertiv supported the supercomputer deployment.

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Sustainability for the AI Era - Source Asia

0 updatesPublished 6d agoEvents Jul 22 - Jul 22news.microsoft.com

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ConferenceSatya Nadella

Published 6d agoEvent Nov 17

Satya Nadella announced the Ignite conference scheduled for November 17 in San Francisco and online.

Event date: November 17
Location: San Francisco or online

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Product LaunchAnthropic

Published 6d agoEvent Jul 26

Anthropic launched the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, enabling users on claude.ai to directly query economic data on how AI is used across occupations and industries.

Allows users to query economic data directly within Claude conversations.
Available in the connectors menu on claude.ai with no installation required.
Provides insights into AI usage patterns across occupations, tasks, and geographic regions.

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A new approach to AI data puts communities in charge | Microsoft Signal Blog | Microsoft

0 updatesPublished 6d agoEvents Jul 22 - Jul 22news.microsoft.com

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New WhatsApp Features Keep Up With the Way You Actually Live

0 updatesPublished 6d agoEvents Jul 22 - Jul 22about.fb.com

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Product AnnouncementNVIDIA Medical Physics Simulation

Published 6d agoEvent Jul 28

NVIDIA introduced the Medical Physics Simulation framework within Isaac for Healthcare to accelerate healthcare robotics development.

GPU-accelerated open-source framework for medical physics simulation and anatomical modeling
Integrates classical physics simulation with real-time generative AI simulation via Cosmos-H Dreams
Demonstrates 8,192 parallel robot-training environments cutting training time from 5 hours to under 2 minutes
Adopted by medical robotics leaders including CMR Surgical, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, XCath, Inner Logic, and Medtronic Structural Heart

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Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community | OpenAI

0 updatesPublished 6d agoEvents Jul 22 - Jul 22openai.com

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