From Nvidia's GTC 2026 and Jensen Huang's keynote.

"I know how many of you grew up with GeForce. GeForce is Nvidia's greatest marketing campaign. We attracted future customers, starting long before you could afford to pay for it yourself. Your parents paid. Parents paid for you to be Nvidia customers, and every single year they paid up, year after year after year until someday you became an amazing computer scientist and became a proper customer. This is the house that GeForce made 25 years ago."

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberg was asked about why he started OpenClaw. The short version: "Sometimes you just want to talk to your computer," he said. "You also want AI that actually does things."

Steinberg, who counts Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as one of his biggest fans, said:

"I wanted this since May. And to me, it was so obvious that all the big labs would be building it. The months passed and it was November and there was still nothing. And was like oh I have to do it myself? I just vibed it into existence basically. And then ever since it's been a rocket ship, but clearly people want AI that actually does things like. You have your own identity and now we, we're heading into a future where we make this possible."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will kick off Nvidia GTC 2026. Here's the live stream.

Nebius said Meta has signed a five-year agreement for $12 billion in dedicated capacity in multiple locations. The deployment will be based on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. Nebius said it will start delivering the capacity in early 2027. Meta has the option to purchase another $15 billion of upcoming Nebius infrastructure over five years to potentially bring the total contract value to $27 billion.

Infleqtion, a neutral atom quantum computing company, said it has delivered a 100-qubit Sqale system to the National Quantum Computing Centre in the UK. The installation of the Sqale platform is part of its broader Quantum Computing Testbed Initiative. Infleqtion recently went public via a SPAC deal and held an analyst day.

More than 4 out of 5 physicians are using AI in their practices, according to the American Medical Association. The 81% of physicians using AI in medical practice is more than double the rate in 2023.

The biggest use cases for physician AI usage is documentation and summarization, research and standards of care and workflows.

Neptune Insurance's Neptune Flood said it will provide real-time preliminary flood insurance quotes within ChatGPT via a Neptune Flood app. The company, which we profiled last year, is building out its direct-to-consumer efforts. Through ChatGPT, consumers can ask about flood risk, get quotes, explore options and transition to Neptune Flood's site to complete a purchase.

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Anthropic said Claude will be able to create custom charges, diagrams and visualizations directly into conversations without code. Anthropic announced the feature, which is in beta and turned on by default, in a blog post.

Palantir said it has expanded a partnership with GE Aerospace to improve military aircraft readiness. The company also partnered with sensing company Ondas to build a next-gen intelligence platform. The news is part of the AIPCon 9 customer showcase.

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Atlassian said it will cut its workforce about 10% or 1,600 employees. In a post, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said the cuts will fund investments in AI and enterprise sales. He said:

"We fundamentally believe people and AI create the best outcomes. Our approach is not “AI replaces people”.

But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does.

This is primarily about adaptation. We are reshaping our skill mix and changing how we work to build for the future."

Here's a look at Atlassian's employee growth in recent years.

Nebius and Nvidia announced a partnership that revolves around deploying Nvidia's platforms such as Rubin, Vera CPUs and BlueField Storage. Nvidia will also invest $2 billion in Nebius. Separately, Nebius said it will expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific.

Google said that it has closed the acquisition of Wiz. The company will join Google Cloud and operate as a brand in the security portfolio. The plan is to create a unified security platform that can secure AI and work across the major cloud providers beyond Google Cloud.

See:

• Google buys Wiz for $32 billion, will add to Google Cloud's cybersecurity lineup
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