Beyond speeding chip development, Nvidia and Siemens are aiming to create digital facsimiles, from chips to entire racks, to test their function before they're built. "What we are hoping for, and the reason why we're partnering so closely together, is so that we could build that Vera Rubin in the future as a digital twin," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said today at the Siemens keynote.
The magnet is the first of 18 that, when the reactor is complete, will create a doughnut-like shape that will produce a powerful magnetic field to confine and compress superheated plasma. If all goes well, that plasma will release more energy than it takes to heat and compress it. After decades of promise and delay, fusion power appears to be just around the corner - CFS and its competitors are locked in a race to deliver the first electrons to the grid sometime in the early 2030s.
In the first part of our round-up of the Dallas meeting of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) project's Global Forum conference in October 2025, we looked at the technological development of the association's all-photonics network (APN) - and the continued work in essentially "moving from electronics to photons", as a representative of one of its key member companies insisted its mission boils down to.
An initiative by a UK-based charity, supported by technology companies and universities, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital twin that allows people with communications disabilities to speak in a natural way. The technology, known as VoxAI, represents a step-change from the computer-assisted voice used by late physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the first well-known public figures with motor neurone disease (MND).
The "iceberg" analogy highlights the difference between visible and hidden AI impacts: The Tip (Surface Index): This represents the visible impact, such as layoffs and role shifts in the tech sector, which accounts for about 2.2% of wage exposure. The Hidden Mass (Iceberg Index): This represents the much larger potential for disruption in routine administrative, financial, and professional service roles (11.7% of wage value) that are often overlooked in traditional forecasts.
This is where Google comes in, with help to develop a custom AI-powered platform to optimize the reactor construction process. The new system combines AI models and prediction tools from both companies with Westinghouse's WNEXUS, a 3D digital twin of its reactors. With current and historic data, it is able to predict bottlenecks, optimize construction task sequences, adjust staffing levels, and account for external factors like supply chain constraints, the pair claim.
Grid-interactive buildings represent the next evolution in sustainable real estate. These buildings communicate dynamically with the electricity grid, adjusting energy consumption and generation to optimise efficiency, cost, and environmental impact. How grid-interactive buildings operate Using advanced sensors, building management systems, and AI-driven controls, grid-interactive buildings monitor both internal energy demand and grid conditions. They can shift consumption to off-peak periods, store excess renewable energy in batteries, or feed energy back to the grid when appropriate.
Erin is a smart cookie. She manages complex projects for a living. She maps dependencies, anticipates risks, and can predict how a small change will ripple through a system. Yet when it comes to her own life, her thinking feels fuzzy and reactive. She's brilliant at analysis, just not when the subject is herself or topics like parenting, communication with her partner, or what type of balance she wants.
Giving network owners the capabilities to detect disruptions earlier and resolve incidents quicker on the first attempt is now business critical given the increasing complexity of infrastructures. To address these aims, Nokia has introduced software tools and AI-models that the company claims will "significantly" improve operational efficiencies and enhance network reliability. Nokia said that operators deploying fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks face limited visibility into the passive outside plant, resulting in inventory errors, costly repeat truck rolls, cost overruns and service delays.
Zoom's vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you'll soon be able to create a "photorealistic" avatar of yourself in case you aren't "camera-ready." That means your AI avatar can appear polished if you've just crawled out of bed. Zoom plans on launching this feature to Workplace users in December, allowing you to generate an AI lookalike based on a photo of yourself that you upload or capture directly in the app.
At the AI Infra Summit this week, simulation savant Cadence added Nvidia's biggest iron, the GB200 NVL72 Superpod, to its digital twin fire. At roughly a megawatt, the compute cluster is among the GPU giant's most complex compute platforms to date. Each Superpod consists of eight 120 kilowatt NVL72 racks containing more than 500 Blackwell GPUs and 288 Grace CPUs capable of churning out a combined 11.5 exaFLOPS of the lowest-precision compute money can buy.
System Initiative recently released its AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform, aiming to offer DevOps teams a new way to manage infrastructure through natural language. With this release, users can type simple prompts, such as "make load balancer health checks more aggressive", and the system's AI agent will discover relevant infrastructure, simulate proposed changes, and execute updates upon approval. System Initiative claims all of this will occur while maintaining full automation and safety within live environments.
Berlin, September 2025 - Mark your calendars for an unmissable event during Berlin Art Week: MATERIAL, a revolutionary hybrid exhibition, is set to debut at the iconic Alhambra Berlin, located at Kurfürstendamm 68. Curated by the visionary Julian Daynov and created in collaboration with artist Peter-Maximilian Ronsdorf and 3D stage designer Finn Dudek, this exhibition will not only redefine your understanding of art but will also bridge the gap between physical and digital spaces.
For the last six months, David has been living with a digital twin. He is one of the first participants in a pilot program designed to push beyond the simple video calls of telehealth and into the strange, intimate world of predictive medicine. The Ghost is a virtual model of him, a breathing, learning algorithm that lives in the cloud and, arguably, knows his body better than he does.