March 18, 2025

Nvidia Blackwell accelerates computer-aided engineering software by 50X

Nvidia announced that Nvidia Blackwell hardware will accelerate by 50 times the big computer-aided software engineering firms’ software for digital twins. The vendors include Ansys, Altair, Cadence, Siemens and Synopsys. With such accelerated software, along with Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and blueprints to optimize performance such as automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing and life sciences can significantly reduce product development time, cut costs and increase design accuracy while maintaining energy efficiency. “CUDA-accelerated physical simulation on Nvidia Blackwell

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Robotics

Ocado unveils Porter pallet moving AMR at ProMat – The Robot Report

Ocado’s Porter AMR can automate pallet and cage handling and full-case fulfillment tasks, including picking, cross-dock, putaway and inventory moves. | Source: Ocado Ocado Intelligent Automation (OIA), part of Ocado Group, introduced Porter AMR at ProMat 2025 this week. Porter is a pallet-moving autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that navigates warehouses to automate several warehouse workflows such as cross-docking, bulk-item picking, putaway, and pallet movement. “Porter from OIA automates low-value, manual tasks and fosters a more

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Bolt’s former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup | TechCrunch

Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He’s launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.” When you click on an ad for something like a T-shirt, the experience afterward can feel a little clunky. The website you land on might not even have the product you clicked on to begin with. That causes many shoppers to

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5 Tips for Stellar Technical Presentations

4 min read Patria Lawton is director of graduate studies and chair of technical leadership education for the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Miodrag Ignjatovic This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. I’ve taught graduate-level communication courses to working professionals in high-tech disciplines for more than a decade. Although students who come to my programs are skilled

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Hardware

NVIDIA Lays Out Two-Year AI Roadmap With Beast Rubin GPU, Vera CPU And NVL576

Building out the datacenters—or as NVIDIA calls them, “AI factories”—required for training and operating state-of-the-art AI models is extremely expensive. So much so that even hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft are going to have to plan these purchases well in advance. To that end, NVIDIA offered a sneak peek of its upcoming products at today’s GTC opening keynote, and you might want to sit down for this one. The company’s extant Blackwell processors are most

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AI

Generating synthetic data with differentially private LLM inference

Due to challenges in generating text while maintaining DP and computational efficiency, prior work focused on generating a small amount of data points (<10) to be used for in-context learning. We show that it’s possible to generate two to three orders of magnitude more data while preserving quality and privacy by solving issues related to the privacy budget and computational efficiency. The privacy budget constrains the amount of output the model can release while maintaining

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Robotics

Apptronik brings in another $53 million to fuel Apollo production – The Robot Report

Apollo is the culmination of nearly a decade of development, drawing on Apptronik’s extensive work on 15 previous robots, including NASA’s Valkyrie robot. | Source: Apptronik Apptronik Tuesday announced it added an extra $53 million to its oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing the total funding from the round to $403 million. The company said the round reflects strong market demand and investor confidence in Apptronik’s leadership, unique design, and technology. The Series A funding

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Hardware

FBI Issues Malware Warning To Billions Of Chrome, Edge And Safari Users

You probably have experienced situations where you needed to convert files from one format to another. In these cases, free online file converters are a common solution. However, the FBI Denver Field Office has just taken to X (formerly Twitter) to warn users that threat actors now use these seemingly harmless online tools to install malware on the devices of unsuspecting victims. The FBI explained that the malware deployed in these attacks could encrypt victims’

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Hardware

NVIDIA Blackwell RTX Pro To Supercharge AI Workstations, Servers And Laptops

Following the launch of Blackwell-based GPUs in the consumer space for gaming, NVIDIA today expanded the reach of its latest-generation GPU architecture into various professional solutions for workstations, servers, and laptops, all of which fall under the RTX Pro Blackwell umbrella. In total, we’re looking at a dozen new SKUs to turbocharge AI workloads, 3D designs, complex simulations, and other tasks. “Software developers, data scientists, artists, designers and engineers need powerful AI and graphics performance

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Hardware

NVIDIA Project DIGITS Renamed DGX Spark, DGX Station Unveiled For AI Domination

The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come out of left field, but the technology upon which they are built is a known commodity: the Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer architecture, which has expanded into multiple chips.  Back at CES, NVIDIA announced Project DIGITS, its

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