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Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in additional private support from alumni and donors including leaders in the Bay Area [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axioss Amy Harder toured a test server hall run by Digital Realty in Ashburn, Virginia, the heart [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Metas chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Nvidia chip at the centre of Americas export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvidias Blackwell Ultra generation, the same line the US forbids selling [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ford and Geely announced a manufacturing joint venture on Thursday that will produce electric vehicles at Fords plant in Valencia, Spain. Ford will own 66% of the venture, Geely 34%. Pending regulatory approvals, operations begin in the first half of 2027, with the first new vehicles rolling off the line in 2028. The plant will [] This story continues at The Next Web

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Teslas quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a significant allocation of memory on reasonable terms, Musk said, according [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the worlds most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom complete nonsense, it is worth asking whether he is right, or just talking his book. In a wide-ranging [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autumn and next year, and covers roughly 11 machines, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidias founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the American military, and the company donated it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Battery-electric and hybrid models did almost all the work of keeping the European market in growth, and Chinese badges are increasingly the ones doing the selling. One in five new cars registered in the European Union so far this year was fully electric, and the share held by Chinese-badged models has roughly doubled in the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Yann Leriche, chief executive of Getlink, has a blunt diagnosis for why Europes new biometric border regime is still not running end to end at the Channel Tunnel. The problem, he says, is not the terminals, the staff, or the queues, it is the code. Getlink, which operates the Eurotunnel shuttle carrying cars and lorries [] This story continues at The Next Web