As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’

NVlabs releases cuda-oxide v0.1.0, a custom rustc codegen backend that compiles #[kernel]-annotated Rust functions to PTX through a Rust → Stable MIR → Pliron IR → LLVM IR → PTX pipeline, with single-source host+device compilation from one cargo oxide build command. The post NVIDIA AI Just Released cuda-oxide: An Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler Backend that Compiles SIMT GPU Kernels Directly to PTX appeared first on MarkTechPost.

NVIDIA researchers have introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models — at 30B, 23B, and 12B parameter scales — inside a single checkpoint, eliminating the need for separate training runs or stored model weights per variant. Built on the Nemotron Elastic framework and applied to Nemotron Nano v3, the method trains all three variants in a single 160B-token run, achieving a 360× token reduction compared to pretraining each model from scratch. Beyond training efficiency, Star Elastic introduces elastic budget control — a novel inference scheme that uses a smaller submodel for the thinking phase and the full model for the final answer — delivering up to 16% higher accuracy and 1.9× lower latency compared to standard budget control, while nested FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints bring the full model family within reach of RTX-class GPUs. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-

Nvidia continues to be a big investor in the AI ecosystem.

CloudFlare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn't need as many support roles.

Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch of video calls while the current CEO is texting the former CEO about who the new CEO even is. Such was the story of The Blip, the days in 2024 when Sam Altman was ousted from OpenAI. We knew that situation was chaotic; the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial is showing just how chaotic it really was. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign … Read the full story at The Verge.

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT-maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the public is getting a concrete look behind the scenes of that dramatic weekend for the first time, much of it centered on former CTO Mira Murati. It was a unique situation in that the rollercoaster of a power play - which seemed to change every hour - took place, in many ways, publicly. The board's strikingly vague … Read the full story at The Verge.

AI will help build the energy it needs. That’s the case U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck made Thursday morning at the SCSP AI+ Expo. The 30-minute fireside chat, moderated by SCSP president Ylli Bajraktari, was called “Powering the Next American Century.” Their argument: American […]

"We are going to be saying goodbye to the swipe," CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said.