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- Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2 billion in new European investments within a week and takes stakes in four French startups, per Bloomberg
Speaking in Paris on October 13 at the start of a tour that also includes London and Berlin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans to announce $2 billion in European investments in the next week, on top of about $8 billion it put into Europe over the past year. He also announced new investments in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic; Nvidia did not disclose the amounts, which Les Echos reported are minority stakes. Huang also promoted open-weight models as a way for Europe to close its AI gap.
- Nvidia tones down DLSS 5 for its Hogwarts Legacy debut and ships a lighter model, per The Verge
Nvidia published new Hogwarts Legacy comparison screenshots in which DLSS 5's changes to faces and environments are far subtler than in its March demo. DLSS 5 arrives in Hogwarts Legacy on November 5 and in Where Winds Meet late next month. Nvidia says an October update shrinks the DLSS 5 model by 24% to about 118 million parameters, cuts 4K VRAM use by 20% and makes it twice as fast on RTX 50-series GPUs. The updated model debuts in NBA 2K27 on October 16 and will ship by default in future DLSS 5 games.
- NVIDIA reportedly ends new RTX 5090 GB202 supply for GeForce, reserves chips for RTX PRO, per VideoCardz
VideoCardz reports leaker MEGAsizeGPU saying NVIDIA will no longer allocate new GB202 silicon to GeForce RTX 5090 production and will reserve future GB202 supply for RTX PRO workstation cards. A separate factory-notice claim says an RTX 5080 24GB would become the top GeForce card; NVIDIA has not confirmed either report.
- Nvidia pairs OpenShell agent software with Sentry hardware watchdog, per The Decoder
The Decoder reports Nvidia is combining its OpenShell agent software with Sentry, a hardware watchdog meant to isolate breakout AI agents within milliseconds, to create the Open Agent Safety Platform.