Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
The agreement underscores how demand from large-scale artificial intelligence computing is increasingly pulling fuel and power suppliers into the data center supply chain.
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Nadella said the race for ever-larger artificial-intelligence systems should be balanced with practical access and reliability, arguing that broader availability depends on affordability, options for developers, and safeguards that users can rely on.
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In a new blog post tied to its startup program, NVIDIA says Eco Wave Power is pairing NVIDIA AI infrastructure and Omniverse-based digital twins to simulate and optimize wave energy projects, including pilots tied to port-adjacent data center demand.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory plans three next-generation systems with HPE and NVIDIA, using Vera CPUs alongside Vera Rubin GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 networking. The lab expects the architecture to speed up AI-assisted hypothesis generation and simulation workflows, with initial results pointing to several-fold performance gains on research workloads.
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The company unveiled DAQIRI, ALCHEMI microservices, and cuPhoton, positioning the tools as a way to convert hours or days of CPU-based work into GPU-accelerated pipelines for astronomy, particle physics, and materials chemistry.
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At the ISC conference in Hamburg, NVIDIA is highlighting results from JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, which is using NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking to accelerate work in neuroscience, climate modeling, next-generation wireless AI and quantum simulation.
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The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program, backed in part by NVIDIA’s cloud infrastructure and technical onboarding support, is accelerating computational workflows for topics ranging from protein prediction to infectious-disease monitoring and energy materials.
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The energy company said it will back Project Kilby, a co-located power facility in West Texas intended to supply a Microsoft data center. Key commercial and technical details were not disclosed in the announcement referenced by Yahoo Finance.
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In an interview tied to Mastercard’s push into AI commerce, chief marketing officer Jill Kramer described Agent Pay as a verification layer meant to help establish trust in agent-to-agent and machine-driven transactions.
