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NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for agentic AI
607BNVIDIA announced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model designed for specialized tasks in multi-agent systems, claiming up to 4x faster output speed and 30% faster agentic task completion compared to other models in its class. The company also released NeMo Switchyard, an open source library for intelligent model routing that automatically directs requests to the most suitable model across open, proprietary, and NVIDIA models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is available on Hugging Face, ModelScope, OpenRouter, and other platforms, while NeMo Switchyard is available on GitHub.
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Intel Announces $20 Billion Common Stock Offering
566BIntel priced an underwritten public offering of 210,526,315 shares at $95 per share, upsizing the offering from the previously announced $15 billion to $20 billion. The offering is expected to close on August 12, 2026, with net proceeds of approximately $19.7 billion after underwriting discounts and expenses, to be used for general corporate purposes including capital expenditures and working capital. J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup are serving as joint book-running managers, alongside additional book-running managers and co-managers.
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NVIDIA partners with major financial firms on $500B AI infrastructure financing
484BNVIDIA announced strategic partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish compute financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure development. Memorandums of understanding have been signed to create dedicated pools of capital at scale for NVIDIA customers, including frontier AI labs, enterprises, and AI clouds. The partnerships remain subject to execution of final agreements.
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Intel Gamer Days 2026 launches with AAA game bundle partnerships
560BIntel announced its 2026 Gamer Days campaign on August 10, featuring a retail bundle (running through September 13) that includes digital copies of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and STAR WARS: Galactic Racer with qualifying Intel Core, Core Ultra, or Arc Graphics purchases. Intel is the official launch partner for both games, with STAR WARS: Galactic Racer releasing October 6, 2026, and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis on February 12, 2027, both featuring XeSS 3 support at launch. A Collector's Edition giveaway for both titles runs through September 10.
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Intel announces $15 billion common stock offering
506BIntel announced an underwritten public offering of $15 billion in common stock on August 10, 2026. Net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures and working capital, while maintaining a strong balance sheet and investment-grade rating. Underwriters have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to $2.25 billion in additional shares. J.P. Morgan Securities, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup Global Markets are acting as joint book-running managers.
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Firebird launches CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia
519BFirebird opened the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure. The facility will deploy over 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of capacity by end of 2027. Firebird plans to expand its global infrastructure across Armenia, Kazakhstan and other markets with approximately 2 gigawatts of capacity, supported by NVIDIA investments. The facility was completed in over six months and counts Perplexity as an early customer.
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Intel appoints Dean Jarnac as chief sales officer
424BIntel announced the appointment of Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer on August 7, 2026. Jarnac joins from Marvell, where he served as chief sales officer, and brings more than 30 years of semiconductor industry experience from previous roles at Broadcom and AMD. He will report directly to CEO Lip-Bu Tan and join Intel in September. Greg Ernst is leaving Intel after 27 years with the company.
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AMD acquires Taalas to enhance AI inference capabilities
446BAMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, an AI inference silicon specialist founded in 2023 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Taalas' technology optimizes inference dataflows and reduces compute and memory bottlenecks in general-purpose architectures. AMD plans to integrate Taalas' technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions alongside AMD Instinct GPUs to complement its full-stack AI platform.
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Intel launches Semiconductor Education Pathways Program for workforce development
641BIntel announced the Semiconductor Education Pathways Program (SEPP), an Intel-funded initiative designed to build a semiconductor talent pipeline through investments in K-12 education, post-secondary institutions, and career pathways. SEPP supports five core areas: K-12 STEM and Career Technical Education, student experiential learning, curriculum development, faculty development, and graduate scholarships. The program operates across Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon and includes undergraduate research experiences, faculty training programs, community college transfer pathways, student design challenges, and educator externships.
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GeForce NOW adds 26 games in August 2026
374BGeForce NOW is adding 26 new games in August, including World of Warships: Legends, with eight games available this week and more throughout the month. NVIDIA is showcasing GeForce NOW at QuakeCon in Grapevine, Texas, demonstrating RTX 5080-powered cloud gaming with visuals up to 5K 120 frames per second on ultrawide displays and on the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld device.
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AMD reports record Q2 2026 revenue of $11.5 billion
394BAMD announced second quarter 2026 financial results with revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year, driven by Data Center segment revenue of $6.7 billion, up 107%. The company reported GAAP net income of $2.3 billion and diluted earnings per share of $1.38. For Q3 2026, AMD expects revenue of approximately $13 billion, plus or minus $300 million, representing 41% year-over-year growth.