Elon Musk warns of an AI hardware “all-out war” as Nvidia’s Blackwell rollout accelerates, pushing rivals to race on speed, cost, and scale.

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nvidia said on Monday it acquired AI software firm SchedMD, as the chip designer doubles down on open-source technology and steps up investments in the artificial intelligence ecosystem to fend off rising competition.

Nemotron-3 Nano (available now): A highly efficient and accurate model. Though it’s a 30 billion-parameter model, only 3 billion parameters are active at any time, allowing it to fit onto smaller form-factor GPUs, such as the L40S.

Nvidia is leaning on the hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts architecture its been tapping for models for its new Nemotron 3 models.

The new SSDs jointly developed by SK hynix and Nvidia are aimed at high-performance AI workloads enabled by Nvidia’s new Rubin CPX GPUs.

While Nvidia and Broadcom are both benefiting from the AI boom, Wall Street sees one stock as a much better buy.

Fortinet VM, powered by the FortiOS operating system, offers next-generation firewall capabilities that secure hybrid, multicloud and now AI factories. It has security policies and centralized visibility and management that help reduce complexity for security teams.

Concerns about an artificial-intelligence bubble have been weighing on Nvidia stock, but strategists at UBS dismiss those fears as overblown in a note today.Nvidia shares were down 0.3% at $175.70 in early trading,

The vaunted AI company may have a more challenging year in 2026.