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      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia confirms the $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal, with a pledge to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral",
      "summary": "Nvidia signed the definitive agreement on September 2 and announced it the next morning: about $11.9 billion to Hugging Face stockholders plus up to $1 billion in retention equity, closing expected in the first half of 2027 subject to US and EU regulatory approvals. Huang committed that Nvidia compute would not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face and that it would keep supporting other silicon vendors, the openness question regulators are expected to focus on. CEO Clément Delangue said he had approached Huang weeks earlier, after Hugging Face was hacked.",
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          "quote": "On September 2, 2026, NVIDIA Corporation (“NVIDIA”) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face, Inc. (“Hugging Face”). Hugging Face operates a platform and community for developing, sharing and deploying open-source models, datasets and applications. The transaction includes an approximately $11.9 billion purchase price payable to Hugging Face stockholders, subject to certain adjustments, and an equity-based retention program of up to approximately $1.0 billion for Hugging Face employees joining NVIDIA."
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          "quote": "After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion."
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      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia reports $96.2 billion quarter, data center $89.0 billion, Vera Rubin in full production",
      "summary": "Second-quarter fiscal 2027 results showed revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year on year, with data\ncenter revenue of $89.0 billion. Jensen Huang said Vera Rubin was in full production, and the release\nnoted racks running at partners.",
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          "quote": "Vera Rubin, now in full production, was built to power exactly this moment."
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      "date": "2026-03-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Huang says Nvidia is licensed for many Chinese H200 customers, has orders, and is restarting production",
      "summary": "Speaking to press at GTC 2026, Jensen Huang said Nvidia had been licensed for many customers in China for H200, had received purchase orders from many of them, and was restarting H200 manufacturing.",
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          "quote": "We've been licensed for many customers in China for H200. We have received purchase orders from many customers and we are in the process of restarting our manufacturing"
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      "date": "2026-03-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia unveils DLSS 5 at GTC and calls it the GPT moment for graphics",
      "summary": "DLSS 5 was announced as a real-time neural rendering model that infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials, which Nvidia billed as its biggest graphics breakthrough since real-time ray tracing in 2018. Jensen Huang framed it as blending handcrafted rendering with generative AI. The company committed only to a autumn launch window.",
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          "quote": "\"Twenty-five years after NVIDIA invented the programmable shader, we are reinventing computer graphics once again,\" said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. \"DLSS 5 is the GPT moment for graphics - blending handcrafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression.\""
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      "date": "2026-03-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vera Rubin declared in full production at GTC 2026",
      "summary": "Nvidia announced that the seven chips of the Vera Rubin platform were in full production and described\nthe platform as five racks and one supercomputer. This kept to the second-half-2026 timing set a year\nearlier.",
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          "url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-vera-rubin-platform",
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          "published": "2026-03-16",
          "quote": "Vera Rubin is a generational leap — seven breakthrough chips, five racks, one giant supercomputer — built to power every phase of AI"
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      "date": "2025-09-22",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Letter of intent to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems",
      "summary": "The largest investment Nvidia had ever proposed: a non-binding agreement to put up to $100 billion into OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt of Nvidia systems is deployed, starting with the first gigawatt on Vera Rubin in the second half of 2026. Critics called it circular financing; the definitive terms were still being negotiated months later.",
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          "quote": "OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed."
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-acquisitions#n687",
      "date": "2025-09-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "$5 billion for a stake in Intel, with joint data center and PC chips",
      "summary": "Nvidia agreed to buy $5 billion of Intel common stock at $23.28 a share and to co-develop custom x86 CPUs linked to Nvidia GPUs over NVLink for data centers and PCs, a month after the US government took its own 10 percent stake in Intel. The same day CNBC reported the Enfabrica acquihire.",
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          "quote": "NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets."
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      "date": "2025-09-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia invests US$5 billion in Intel; the two will build custom x86 CPUs and RTX-based PC chips",
      "summary": "Nvidia agreed to buy US$5 billion of Intel stock at US$23.28 a share. Intel will build Nvidia-custom x86\nCPUs for Nvidia's data center platforms and x86 system-on-chips with Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets for PCs,\nconnected with NVLink.",
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          "quote": "For data centers, Intel will build NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs that NVIDIA will integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms and offer to the market."
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      "id": 51,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-china-export-controls#n51",
      "date": "2025-07-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia says the US has assured it H20 licenses will be granted and sales to China will resume",
      "summary": "After Jensen Huang met officials in Washington and travelled to Beijing, Nvidia said the U.S. government\nhad assured it that H20 export licenses would be granted and that it hoped to start deliveries soon. It\nalso announced an RTX Pro GPU aimed at the China market.",
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          "published": "2025-07-14",
          "quote": "The U.S. government has assured NVIDIA that licenses will be granted, and NVIDIA hopes to start deliveries soon."
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-datacenter-gpu-roadmap#n10",
      "date": "2025-03-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Roadmap set: Vera Rubin NVL144 in H2 2026, Rubin Ultra in H2 2027",
      "summary": "In the GTC 2025 keynote, Nvidia dated the next two generations. Vera Rubin NVL144 systems were slated\nfor the second half of 2026 and Rubin Ultra systems for the second half of 2027.",
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          "published": "2025-03-18",
          "quote": "Systems built on Rubin Ultra, including the Vera Rubin NVL 144, will arrive in the second half of next year. And due for the second half of 2027: systems built on Rubin Ultra."
        }
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      "id": 8,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-datacenter-gpu-roadmap#n8",
      "date": "2025-02-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "First quarter of Blackwell sales: Nvidia cites billions in revenue, data center at $35.6 billion",
      "summary": "Fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 results reported data center revenue of $35.6 billion. Nvidia said Blackwell\nAI supercomputers achieved billions of dollars in sales in their first quarter, without giving an exact\nfigure in the release.",
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          "outlet": "Nvidia Newsroom",
          "published": "2025-02-26",
          "quote": "Fourth-quarter revenue was a record $35.6 billion, up 16% from the previous quarter and up 93% from a year ago."
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      "date": "2024-11-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia says Blackwell is in full production; data center revenue hits $30.8 billion",
      "summary": "In its third-quarter fiscal 2025 results, Nvidia described Blackwell as being in full production and\nreported record data center revenue of $30.8 billion, up 17% from the prior quarter.",
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          "published": "2024-11-20",
          "quote": "Third-quarter revenue was a record $30.8 billion, up 17% from the previous quarter"
        }
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-datacenter-gpu-roadmap#n6",
      "date": "2024-08-28",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nvidia discloses a Blackwell mask change to improve yields on its Q2 FY2025 call",
      "summary": "On the earnings call, CFO Colette Kress said Nvidia had changed the Blackwell GPU mask to improve\nproduction yields and that the production ramp would begin in the fourth quarter. Jensen Huang said\nNvidia meant to ship product, not merely start production, in Q4. Nvidia also said Blackwell demand was\nwell above supply.",
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        {
          "url": "https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/29/nvidia_blackwell_manufacturing/",
          "outlet": "The Register",
          "published": "2024-08-29",
          "quote": "We executed a change to the Blackwell GPU mask to improve production yields."
        }
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      "id": 4,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-datacenter-gpu-roadmap#n4",
      "date": "2024-06-02",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Rubin platform and Vera CPU revealed ahead of Computex 2024",
      "summary": "In his Computex keynote in Taipei, Jensen Huang showed the Rubin platform as Blackwell's successor,\ntogether with an Arm-based CPU called Vera and new networking parts. He described a one-year release\nrhythm for the whole data center stack. No launch year was given in Nvidia's own write-up.",
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        {
          "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/computex-2024-jensen-huang/",
          "outlet": "Nvidia Blog",
          "published": "2024-06-02",
          "quote": "Revealed for the first time, the Rubin platform will succeed the upcoming Blackwell platform, featuring new GPUs, a new Arm-based CPU — Vera — and advanced networking with NVLink 6, CX9 SuperNIC and the X1600 converged InfiniBand/Ethernet switch."
        }
      ]
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    {
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      "id": 3,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-datacenter-gpu-roadmap#n3",
      "date": "2024-03-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Blackwell platform announced at GTC 2024 with B200 and GB200",
      "summary": "Nvidia announced the Blackwell architecture in San Jose, listing the B200 Tensor Core GPU and the GB200\nGrace Blackwell Superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU. The release claims up to 25x lower\ncost and energy for LLM inference compared with H100.",
      "type": "announcement",
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          "url": "https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2024/NVIDIA-Blackwell-Platform-Arrives-to-Power-a-New-Era-of-Computing/default.aspx",
          "outlet": "Nvidia Investor Relations",
          "published": "2024-03-18",
          "quote": "Packed with 208 billion transistors, Blackwell-architecture GPUs are manufactured"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": 1338,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nvidia-china-export-controls#n1338",
      "date": "2024-02",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Huang says Nvidia is sampling two China chips that comply without a licence",
      "summary": "After Nvidia's quarterly results, Jensen Huang told Reuters the company was sampling two new China-market AI\nchips with customers and that both complied with the rules without needing a licence. He did not name the chips\nor the customers. The move was Nvidia's attempt to defend a market position that the October 2023 controls had\nput at risk.",
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          "outlet": "Reuters, via Yahoo",
          "published": null,
          "quote": "We're sampling it with customers now. Both of them comply with the regulation without a license. We're looking forward to customer feedback on it,\" Huang told Reuters on Wednesday in an interview after releasing Nvidia's quarterly results."
        }
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