A firsthand recap of GeForce Gamer Festival Seoul: 25-year celebration, NCSOFT & KRAFTON RTX announcements, StarCraft esports, Jensen Huang’s moment, and what it means for players and developers.

Inside GeForce Gamer Festival Seoul — RTX Breakthroughs, StarCraft Esports & 25 Years of PC Gaming

GeForce Gamer Festival Seoul: A 25-Year Celebration of PC Gaming, RTX Innovations, and Korean Esports

Relive the excitement from the GeForce Gamer Festival Seoul!

Last week, we celebrated 25 years of GeForce in Korea with new RTX announcements from NCSOFT and KRAFTON, epic StarCraft battles, giveaways, live performances, and a special appearance from Jensen Huang.

GeForce Gamer Festival Seoul

Takeaways from NVIDIA GTC on why American technology is a national treasure and how AI-driven robotics will reshape industry, jobs, and policy.

American Tech, AI & Robotics: Lessons from NVIDIA GTC

A Look Into the Future of America and AI | NVIDIA GTC, Washington D.C.

Catch moments from GTC at our nation's capital, where developers and technology leaders came together to build on US leadership in AI innovation, and lay a foundation for what's to come next.
Watch sessions now on demand: https://nvda.ws/3JeaThy

A product manager's inside account of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—'NanoBanana'—and the tech, teams, and safeguards behind its viral, lifelike image edits.

Inside NanoBanana: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image's Viral Rise

Why It Accidentally Got Called Nano Banana 🍌 | The Rise of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

Since it launched in the Summer of 2025, people created billions upon billions of images with Nano Banana, the amazing image creator and editor in Google Gemini. Several viral trends were a direct result of the creative stuff you can do with Nano Banana in the blink of an eye. Today, we’re talking to David Sharon, a Group Product Manager for the Gemini App, to learn more about Nano Banana’s quick ascend, what makes it so special and why it’s called Nano Banana. 

00:00 Welcome to the Podcast: David Sharon
03:11 The First "Wow" Moment with Nano Banana
05:37 The LM Arena Test: Going Viral Anonymously
12:34 The Origin Story of the Name "Nano Banana"
14:39 Being Bold & Responsible: How Synth ID Works

#GoogleGemini #NanoBanana #MadeByGoogle #TechPodcast 

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At GTC Washington, Jensen Huang framed accelerated computing — GPUs, CUDA and the new NVQ link — as a societal shift. Read the keynote recap on AI, the Nokia partnership and national infrastructure.

The Rise of Accelerated Computing — Jensen Huang’s GTC Washington Recap

Jensen Huang’s Keynote Highlights at NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang outlines the next phase of accelerated computing and AI — from national AI infrastructure and quantum computing to robotics and reindustrialization.

Broadcast from the nation’s capital, GTC DC highlights how NVIDIA and its partners are advancing America’s AI leadership.

Discover how Anthropic’s Skill‑creator lets you build fully functional Claude Skills via a guided conversational workflow—no coding or manual file edits.

Build Custom Claude Skills Fast with the New Skill‑Creator

Creating custom Skills with Claude: A hands-on guide to building tailored AI tools

The skill-creator Skill guides you through building any custom capability you can imagine. In this example, watch Claude ask clarifying questions and build a complete image editing skill—but you can create Skills for any workflow. No manual file editing required.
Skills work across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API. Available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-skills

Creating custom Skills with Claude

Discover Claude Skills — self-contained folders of instructions, assets, examples, and guardrails that produce consistent, on‑brand outputs across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API. Learn how to build and deploy them.

Reusable Claude Skills: Build Branded Templates, Guardrails & Workflows

Claude Skills: Specialized capabilities you can customize

Claude loads Skills—folders with instructions and resources—to excel at specialized tasks like creating presentations or following your brand guidelines.
Skills work together seamlessly. Watch Claude use our PowerPoint skill alongside a custom brand guidelines skill, then create concept art with a poster design skill. You can build your own Skills and use them across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API.
Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-skills

Investigative report and short documentary tracing how Nazi leaders amassed looted art and belongings, Allied recoveries, lost objects and the ongoing fight for restitution.

Where Did Nazi Leaders' Stolen Treasures End Up? The Aftermath of WWII Plunder

What Happened to the Personal Belongings of the SS Leaders After World War II?

After the fall of the Third Reich, the Allies uncovered an empire of stolen riches — paintings, jewels, uniforms, relics, and ritual objects amassed by the leaders of the SS and the Nazi Party. What had begun as systematic plunder turned into a personal obsession for figures such as Himmler, Göring, and Hitler, who transformed looting into a symbol of power. While Göring hoarded masterpieces in Carinhall, Himmler turned Wewelsburg Castle into a pagan sanctuary for the SS. Every stolen object — from a Flemish painting to a Totenkopf ring — carried the shadow of violence and ideology.

With the collapse of the Reich, these treasures were hidden in mines, castles, and monasteries to avoid capture. Guided by the Monuments Men, the Allies launched one of the greatest art recovery missions in history, retrieving thousands of works while others vanished amid the chaos of postwar Europe. Some of these possessions resurfaced in private collections, European museums, and even in South American residences where many Nazis found refuge. Even today, paintings, jewels, and confiscated documents continue to emerge, reminding the world of the scale of the Nazi cultural plunder.

Behind the art and luxurious possessions lay a story of human suffering: belongings stolen from Jewish families, confiscated from museums, and turned into domestic trophies by the wives of the Reich’s leaders. The postwar period did not end their story — decades of lawsuits, silences, and rediscoveries continue to reveal lost pieces. Each restitution represents more than an act of justice; it is an effort to restore memory to those who were robbed of everything. The personal belongings of the SS leaders remain silent witnesses to the greed, fanaticism, and impunity that accompanied Nazi power.

What Happened to the Personal Belongings of the SS Leaders After World War 2?

Anthropic’s new MCP connector connects Claude to Microsoft 365—SharePoint, Outlook and Teams—so teams can search, summarize, and act on documents, emails and calendars without leaving Claude.

Anthropic’s MCP Connector: Bring Microsoft 365 Docs, Email & Calendar into Claude

Connect Claude to Microsoft 365: Anthropic’s MCP Connector Brings Your Documents, Email, and Calendar into One Place

Connect Claude with Microsoft 365 using our MCP connector. Claude integrates with SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams to bring context from your documents, emails, and calendar directly into your conversations. Search across files, analyze email threads, and surface insights to help you reason through complex problems, make informed decisions, and take action faster—all without leaving Claude.

Connect Claude to Microsoft 365

Logan Kilpatrick traces how a 2018 Google Brain moonshot evolved into Veo 3 — the design choices, scaling breakthroughs, evaluation challenges, and the native-audio moment that made it viral.

Inside Veo 3 — From a Google Brain Moonshot to Video AI

How a Moonshot Led to Google DeepMind's Veo 3

Dumi Erhan, co-lead of the Veo project at Google DeepMind, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the evolution of generative video models. They discuss the journey from early research in 2018 to the launch of state-of-the-art Veo 3 model with native audio generation. Learn about the technical hurdles in evaluating and scaling video models, the challenges of long-duration video coherence and how user feedback is shaping the future of AI-powered video creation.

Chapters: 
0:00 - Intro 
0:37 - Veo project's beginnings
1:34 - Veo's origins in Google Brain
2:58 - Video prediction and robotics applications
5:44 - Early progress and evaluation challenges
8:00 - How to evaluate video models
10:19 - Physics-based evaluations and their limitations
12:14 - The launch of the original Veo model
14:04 - Scaling challenges for video models
16:13 - The leap from Veo1 to Veo2
17:42 - The role of audio in Veo3 and early challenges
19:37 - Veo 3’s viral audio moment 
21:14 - User trends shaping Veo's roadmap
23:47 - Image-to-video vs. text-to-video complexity
25:57 - New prompting methods and user control
27:54 - Coherence in long video generation
33:26 - Genie 3 and world models
36:19 - The steerability challenge
42:47 - How video understanding aids generation
45:56 - Capability transfer and image data's role
48:15 - Future development and user feedback

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Speakers: Logan Kilpatrick, Dumitru Erhan

Products Mentioned:  Google AI, Gemini

See how NVIDIA's DGX Spark brings datacenter-level AI to desktops — faster iteration, on-premise privacy, and new workflows for researchers, artists, and startups.

DGX Spark: Portable Desktop Supercomputer Powering Local AI

Sparking Something Big: NVIDIA DGX Spark Has Arrived

It’s here! Go behind the scenes and see the delivery of NVIDIA DGX Sparks to top developers, researchers, creative studios, and roboticists. Experience the excitement at ASU, ComfyUI, FYI.AI, LM Studio, Meta/NYU, Ollama, Refik Anadol Studio, and Zipline as they help us launch the next chapter in desktop AI supercomputing.

🚀✨Explore DGX Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/

Recipients highlighted in video include:

🧑‍🎨 Refik Anadol, Director and Media Artist, Refik Anadol Studio  
🧑‍💻 Yagil Burowski, Founder and CEO, Studio  
🗽 Soumith Chintala, Head of PyTorch Meta, NYU
🕶️ ComfyAnonymous, Creator of ComfyUI and Co-Founder, Comfy Organization 
🌵 Lev Gonick, Enterprise CIO, Arizona State University
🧑‍🔬 Yann LeCun, VP and Chief Scientist, FAIR, Meta, NYU Professor  
🛩️ Joseph Mardall, Chief Hardware Officer, Zipline  
🦙 Jeffrey Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, Ollama  
🤖 Joseph Nelson, Co-Founder and CEO, Roboflow
💬 will.i.am, Founder and CEO, FYI.AI
 
And, special thanks to 🤖 Serve Robotics.


#NVIDIA #SparkSomethingBig #DGXSpark #Developers #AIDesktop #FirstViews #Delivery #AI

Discover Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic: a small LLM that delivers Sonnet 4–level coding performance at roughly one-third the cost and about twice the speed—ideal for IDEs, agents, and rapid prototyping.

Claude Haiku 4.5 — Fast, Low-Cost Small LLM Built for Coding

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: A Faster, Cheaper Small Model Built for Coding

What was recently frontier is now cheaper and faster. 

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, offers similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and twice the speed of Claude Sonnet 4. From multiple agent projects to rapid prototyping, Haiku 4.5 makes the coding experience more responsive than ever before.

Powered by Haiku 4.5, watch Claude Code design and ship a dark mode toggle for a food delivery app in sub-60 seconds. 

Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5

Learn how NetApp AFX and the NetApp AI Data Engine with NVIDIA transform data storage, embeddings, and near-data compute to power agentic, multimodal AI at scale.

NetApp AFX & AI Data Engine with NVIDIA — Reinventing Data for Agentic AI

NetApp and NVIDIA: Revolutionary AI Products at a Revolutionary Time

Our CEO Jensen Huang and NetApp CEO George Kurian announce a historic partnership to deliver an enterprise-grade data platform purpose-built for AI reasoning.

Integrated with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, learn how the NetApp AI Data Engine, which leverages the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, and the NetApp AFX streamline the entire data pipeline for any production environment.

Learn more: https://www.netapp.com/

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