Nvidia partners with six major financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms, while China emerges as a leading player in the race to improve weather prediction through AI. Here are this week’s big stories from the AI revolution

NVIDIA just released retargeted robot motion and simulated execution data on Hugging Face 121,500 robot episodes derived from human demonstrations, ready for robotics research.

Nvidia has quietly raised the price of its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU to a massive $16,000. The 96GB graphics card was previously listed at $13,250, after already being increased from its original launch price of $8,565. That’s a huge jump from its original price of around some buyers even managed to pre-order it for less than $8,000 last year. The RTX PRO 6000 isn’t a normal gaming GPU, It’s designed for professional workloads

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now live on OpenRouter. A 30B hybrid MoE with 3B active params, distilled from Nemotron 3 Ultra. Built for high-volume, specialized AI agent workloads, delivering up to 4× higher throughput and up to 30% faster task completion compared to similar models in its class.

NVIDIA backed it. Yet Michael Burry is shorting it. Backpack-issued $NBIS lists on @Solana with @Sunrise tomorrow. Nebius has become a major battleground in the AI infrastructure trade: ▸ NVIDIA invested $2B in the company earlier this year ▸ Leopold Aschenbrenner made $NBIS a major AI bet before his fund’s forced unwind ▸ Michael Burry just disclosed a short, betting against the economics of the AI infrastructure buildout Q2 earnings are Wednesday before market open.