Nvidia has designed a new class of GPU for massive-context inference, the Rubin CPX, due in late 2026. Purpose-built to speed the million-token applications used to generate video and create software, the Rubin CPX functions as a specialty accelerator, working in concert with Nvidia Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs packaged inside the upcoming Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX rack platform. “The Vera Rubin platform will mark another leap in the frontier of AI computing,” revolutionizing massive-context AI just as RTX did graphics and physical AI, said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Continue reading Nvidia Says Rubin CPX Inference Accelerator Coming in 2026

According to Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, we may be close to a new “network age” in which Internet traffic will be protected with code, allowing users to communicate and organize socially without the fear of government censorship. Schmidt believes that Internet users will communicate via private channels that are shielded by encryption, scrambling data that can be decoded with a special digital key. Continue reading Schmidt: Solution to Government Surveillance is Encryption