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How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly 

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?”  That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently raised $163 million from the likes of Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity […]

techcrunch.comSep 16, 2026 12:00 PM

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportionally as hardware gets added, requiring fewer resources to serve users at scale. Continuous optimization means generating more value from infrastructure investments.  […]

blogs.nvidia.comSep 16, 2026 11:00 AM

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers

AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center.  Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a first-of-its-kind coalition advancing data centers that can dynamically manage their electricity use […]

blogs.nvidia.comSep 16, 2026 9:00 AM

AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed audience — with more than 8,000 attendees this year, up from 3,500 last year — […]

blogs.nvidia.comSep 15, 2026 12:55 PM

Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video

Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration. The model, launched last week, uses […]

blogs.nvidia.comSep 10, 2026 12:30 PM

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex streets. Deploying a driverless vehicle is one challenge. Scaling a fleet is […]

blogs.nvidia.comSep 10, 2026 12:00 PM