Samsung expects third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, about $80.17 billion, up 782.5% year on year. Final figures are due on Oct. 29, but the estimate reflects strong demand for memory chips driven by AI.
Nvidia is pushing a full-stack safety solution for physical AI. Robotics companies are already using it for robotaxis and humanoid robots.
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella described how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-designing hardware and software so AI agents can run on Windows PCs. The plan centers on RTX Spark.
The WTO has raised its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade growth to 3.9%, driven by AI-related goods. These goods make up 14.8% of trade but 47% of its growth in value in the first half, with Asia dominating and Europe’s export share small.
A Hugging Face blog post discusses approaches to scheduling workloads on GPU clusters.
Ukrainian drones have damaged a data center belonging to Yandex, often called Russia’s Google. The facility housed supercomputers used to train Yandex’s AI model.