• Firmus partners with NVIDIA to build a 360 MW AI data center in Batam and will buy up to 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs through 2027–2028, signaling a large multi‑year GPU order pipeline.
  • NVIDIA teamed with Palantir to deploy Nemotron models and NVIDIA AI Enterprise in U.S. government and critical infrastructure. Clients can train models on-site; NVDA shares rose slightly intraday.
  • NVDA shares climbed about 4.7% year-to-date in H1 2026, the weakest six-month showing since 2022, lagging the semiconductor sector amid export restriction concerns to China and growth questions
  • NVIDIA says Anthropic’s Claude models now run on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Microsoft Azure, letting traders track NVDA exposure via GB300-powered cloud AI deployments.