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🤖 Nvidia becomes a major model maker with Nemotron 3

🛰️ Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided

🧹 Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy after 35 years

🏬 Netflix to open physical stores in American malls

💎 5D glass storage lasts 13.8 billion years

🛑 China rejects Nvidia H200 chips despite US strategy

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• Nvidia cemented its role as a major model maker by unveiling Nemotron 3, a fresh family of open-source large-language models designed to perform coding and writing assignments across the industry.
• The firm released the small Nemotron 3 Nano immediately to handle long jobs with multiple steps, claiming it runs cheaper than predecessors before two larger versions arrive in early 2026.
• Executives say they are treating the project like a library by sharing training data, which allows government and business users to verify the security of the software before deploying it.

• A SpaceX internet satellite avoided a Chinese spacecraft by just 200 meters in low Earth orbit, prompting a Starlink executive to call for better coordination between operators to prevent future crashes.
• Michael Nicolls wrote that no deconfliction was performed, while CAS Space says it used a ground-based awareness system to select launch windows that avoid hitting any known satellites or space debris.
• CAS Space notes the incident occurred 48 hours after payload separation, highlighting traffic risks as 13,000 satellites are now in Earth orbit, almost four times more than the number in 2020.

• The Roomba maker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after 35 years and says it will be wholly acquired by Shenzhen Picea Robotics and its subsidiary, Santrum Hong Kong.
• Problems got worse when EU regulators blocked a $1.7 billion Amazon deal in January, causing shares to fall to just $1.40 and leaving the firm with less than $25 million to survive.
• iRobot assures that it will continue operating without any anticipated disruptions to app functionality and product support for current customers, even as its common stock is wiped from stock exchanges.

• Netflix is converting empty department stores at American malls into permanent entertainment venues called Netflix House that feature branded shops, themed restaurants, and live experiences based on its hit shows.
• Inside the 100,000-square-foot space, visitors can try a One Piece escape room, walk through a Wednesday festival, buy Squid Game merch, or eat a Hellfire Club sandwich at the sports bar.
• The project fits a growing trend of experiential retail where landlords replace shuttered anchors with interactive options like slime museums to attract foot traffic back to the huge shopping complex.

• SPhotonix claims its fused silica glass platters can hold 360TB of data for 13.8 billion years by using a femtosecond laser to encode information into nanoscale structures across five dimensions.
• While current prototypes only achieve write speeds of 4 MBps, the company has published a roadmap targeting sustained read and write speeds of 500 MBps within three to four years.
• The startup has raised $4.5 million to pilot these glass-based cold storage systems in data centers, with early system costs estimated at $30,000 for a writer and $6,000 for a reader.

• White House AI czar David Sacks says China has figured out the US strategy and is rejecting Nvidia H200 chips to prioritize semiconductor independence and subsidize local companies like Huawei.
• The Trump administration hoped allowing exports of "lagging" H200 chips would hurt Huawei, but reports suggest Beijing will instead counter with a $70 billion package to support its local chipmaking industry.
• Sacks cited reports that China plans to limit access to the chips through a local approval process, potentially costing Nvidia a $10 billion annual revenue opportunity in the Chinese data center market.

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