OpenAI and Poland's NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research. The collaboration aims to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Anima is expanding what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients. The company says this helps clinics cut call waits by 75% using GPT-6 and GPT-Live.
At GTC Berlin, European banks, payment companies and data providers showcased production-scale AI built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and open weight models running on their own infrastructure, including Revolut's PRAGMA foundation model serving an initial 80 million customers and Starling Bank's agentic model trained on U.K. sovereign cloud. Open weight models let institutions like bunq, NatWest, Modulr and Santander build proprietary intelligence at controlled cost, while LSEG, RavenPack, HSBC and Stripe reported speedups such as 10x faster tick-data analysis and 42x faster data pipelines for fraud detection.
NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform lets companies plan, simulate and run the grid and AI factory as one system, addressing power bottlenecks such as over $300 billion in backlogged equipment and over 200 gigawatts of projects in U.S. interconnection queues. The platform combines DSX Sim, DSX Flex, DSX MaxLPS and DSX Exchange, with partners including GE Vernova, Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric, Siemens Energy, Phaidra and Emerald AI. Phaidra reports about 10% more compute within the same power envelope, and Emerald AI's approach is modeled to unlock up to 100 gigawatts on the existing U.S. grid.
European retailers are using NVIDIA-accelerated open models and physical AI across commerce and fulfillment, including Shopify post-training NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for its Sidekick GraphQL subagent, which it says surpasses a leading frontier model in accuracy on an internal benchmark while cutting serving costs by 90% and delivering responses 7x faster. Otto Group extended its autonomous warehouse initiative, built with Reply on NVIDIA Omniverse and running on Google Cloud, to its largest fulfillment center in Haldensleben, Germany, and Nebius is showcasing three early-access NVIDIA retail blueprints at GTC Berlin. Other cited deployments include Zooplus with Infosys, Photoroom with Vestiaire Collective, L'Oréal with Omi and NVIDIA ALCHEMI, Mirakl, ALLSIDES, and CATCHES with AMIRI.
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.
AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.
Mistral and NVIDIA are collaborating to integrate Mistral Large 4 and Mistral's data generation and physics modeling pipelines with NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, Warp and Omniverse to accelerate engineering simulation and enable closed-loop workflows connecting simulation, AI model development and design. The partnership will develop public benchmarks and open datasets for evaluating physics models and agentic AI in CAE and EDA, assessing agents' tool use, multistep workflows, technical correctness, execution time and computational cost. The work builds on the companies' prior co-development of Mistral NeMo and their collaboration through the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition.
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini's Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced general availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin-based A5X instances next month, with planned expansion to Europe, combining Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, Google Cloud Virgo Network and fourth-generation liquid cooling for training, inference and large-scale reinforcement learning. Google Cloud plans to scale the infrastructure to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites, and Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, was the first customer to access A5X. Google Cloud also said it will be among the first cloud providers to offer NVIDIA Confidential Computing at rack scale on bare metal instances such as A4X Max powered by GB300 NVL72, and is making Confidential Computing generally available on G4 VMs powered by RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
Why it matters: The announcement details Google Cloud's Vera Rubin rollout plans, early customer use cases and confidential computing offerings, useful for readers tracking AI infrastructure availability.
NVIDIA Cloud Partners across Europe, the Nordics, Africa and Central Asia are expanding regional compute capacity for model training and inference, with Nscale reporting that NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS enabled 37% more GPUs and nearly 50% higher aggregate inference throughput within the same power budget on GB300 NVL72 systems. Partners including Nebius, Baseten, Fireworks, Mistral and Verda are expanding open-model training and inference services, while the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, supported by partners such as Aleria, Baseten, Cassava, CoreWeave, Crusoe and Nebius, is designed to give organizations full-stack control over what AI agents can access and do.
NVIDIA announced that European industrial companies are using its CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries and Cosmos and Nemotron open models across engineering and manufacturing, and that the Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is now in early access on GitHub for building factory manager and specialist agents. Siemens is integrating FOX-built agents into Intelligence Center X for an estimated 20% cost savings and used Cosmos Data Factory tools at its Erlangen electronics factory to cut inspection calibration time by 40%. The announcement also cites Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen Sachsen, Schaeffler, imec, Infineon, Leonardo and others applying NVIDIA simulation and digital twin technologies.
At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang said European companies including L'Oréal, Revolut, Spotify, Merck, Vodafone, Zara, Porsche, Nestlé and HSBC are working with NVIDIA on AI, following a weeklong European road trip in which the company committed nearly $10 billion to the region's technology ecosystem and worked with 12,000+ partners. He announced the NVIDIA DSX POD reference design for Vera Rubin AI factories in modular containers, claiming onsite deployment can shrink from six months to 14 days, along with the OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents, the Agent Knowledge Foundation, and Agile ONE SN, a 31-degree-of-freedom reference humanoid built on Isaac GR00T expected next year. He also described RTX Spark laptops with 1 petaflop of performance and 128GB of memory, and said Volkswagen, JLR, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz next-generation vehicles will be Hyperion-compatible.
Why it matters: The piece is a detailed first-hand account of NVIDIA's European AI strategy and product announcements, useful for readers tracking agent infrastructure, AI factories and physical AI.
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
In this Microsoft Research Podcast episode, principal technical program manager Weishung Liu interviews Chris White, director of Microsoft Research's Catalyst Lab, about his path from a Harvard postdoc to leading advanced tech operations in Afghanistan after a DARPA summer program, and later developing dark-web search tools used to combat human trafficking. They discuss the role of problem selection in innovation, humility and service, and how he stays hopeful after seeing the darkest parts of humanity.
At its Research@ event in Mountain View, Google Research outlined 10 updates, including expanded early access to Google Earth AI's experimental geospatial capabilities, a multi-agent orchestrator for reproducing prior methods, and public access to its Deep Review verification system. Other highlights include the Synaptics Astra SR200 Series chip with Google's co-designed Coral NPU, upcoming integration of TimesFM and TabFM into Gemini for business, and a Lancet study in which 98 patients consulted AMIE ahead of urgent care visits. Google.org is also providing $10 million in funding for crisis resilience and public health work.
Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore fine-tuned Google's lightweight Gemma model on local scam conversations to create a privacy-preserving, on-device scam detection model that processes conversation data directly on the device. The model uses a two-stage pipeline—a lightweight classifier screening inbound messages, followed by in-context analysis with the fine-tuned Gemma model—to trigger real-time warnings, and was developed within GovTech's GCP environment using anonymised datasets without private or personally identifiable information. Presented at Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW 2026), the collaboration is described as a model for messaging platforms balancing user protection with end-to-end encryption.
Mistral has opened a hub in Munich housing research teams focused on Physics AI and Industrial AI alongside applied engineers serving enterprise partners. The company says it will build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030 and points to its open-weight architecture, which lets customers run models on their own infrastructure under European law. Following its May 2026 acquisition of Emmi AI, Mistral says it is working with BMW on crash simulations and engineering AI and with Siemens Energy on industrial AI applications, and has formed a research partnership with the Technical University Munich.
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla under which its models now power Firefox Smart Window (beta), Mozilla's AI browsing assistant, for users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected later this year. Mistral says it fine-tunes models on regional languages and dialects, and that Smart Window conversations are not saved on Mozilla's servers by default, with partners agreeing to zero data retention. Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo and Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch framed the deal as two open source advocates working together on privacy, control and choice in AI-powered browsing.
Mistral and Cloudera announced a partnership to integrate Mistral's models with Cloudera's hybrid data platform, enabling enterprises to run inference across private and public cloud, on-prem, and fully air-gapped environments. The collaboration also lets enterprises train custom models on proprietary data within controlled environments while retaining ownership of both data and resulting intelligence. Cloudera cites 30 exabytes of customer-managed data on its platform, and the partnership is positioned around demand for sovereign AI that keeps data, intelligence, compute, and operations under customer control.