🧵 Nvidia snaps up the makers behind Slurm job scheduling
Nvidia bought SchedMD, the company best known for developing Slurm - the workload manager that quietly keeps a lot of HPC and AI clusters from turning into spaghetti. The big promise: Slurm stays open-source and vendor-neutral, not “open-ish.”
Nvidia’s angle is pretty straightforward: as AI clusters scale, scheduling and resource allocation become the unsexy bottleneck… right up until it’s the only bottleneck left.
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🤖 Nvidia drops Nemotron 3 to fuel agentic AI builders
Nvidia rolled out the Nemotron 3 family of open models (Nano, Super, Ultra), pitching them as efficient, transparent building blocks for agentic systems - not just another chatbot brain.
The “openness” push is doing double duty: it gives developers more to inspect and customize, and it keeps Nvidia in the loop even as other AI giants flirt with more closed approaches. Weirdly pragmatic, honestly.
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🧩 OpenAI hires a heavyweight dealmaker from Google
OpenAI brought in Albert Lee as VP of corporate development, pulling a longtime Google exec with experience across Google Cloud and DeepMind dealmaking. That’s a very “we’re scaling - and we need grown-up M&A muscle” signal.
OpenAI framed it as adding a senior leader who can move quickly across the company, which sounds boring… until you remember how fast this whole space keeps re-writing its org charts.
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🏛️ The US government starts recruiting AI engineers in bulk
The US government kicked off a campaign to hire 1,000 engineers for two-year roles, explicitly including AI expertise. It’s pitched as a way to drop smart builders into agencies to ship specific projects - not just write memos about shipping.
A notable twist: private companies (including Apple, Google, and Nvidia) were listed as pledging to consider alumni for jobs after, which is either clever pipeline-building… or a bit like a tech internship wearing a federal badge.
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🧸 Mattel’s OpenAI toy collab misses the holiday window
Mattel confirmed its first product with OpenAI is not launching in the current calendar year, after originally hinting it would. The backdrop is pretty tense - AI and kids is a regulatory-and-PR minefield, and toy misfires have made people jumpy.
OpenAI also reiterated the first product is aimed at older customers and families, and pointed to age limits tied to its developer interface. So yeah - not exactly “ChatGPT Barbie,” at least not yet… or so it seems.
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🧾 Thomson Reuters launches agentic AI for 1040 prep
Thomson Reuters introduced “Ready to Review,” a cloud-based agentic AI workflow for 1040 preparation built on CoCounsel. The pitch is less sci-fi, more grind-removal: gather documents, automate repetitive prep steps, keep humans on judgment and client nuance.
They’re framing it as a burnout antidote - not a replacement - and highlighted early-adopter feedback claiming meaningful time savings per return. Tax season, meet Roomba (kind of).
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💼 Goldman rejigs its TMT bankers around infra and AI deals
Goldman Sachs restructured its tech, media, and telecom investment banking group to lean harder into digital infrastructure and AI-driven deal flow, spinning up two new sector teams with new leadership.
It’s basically Wall Street admitting the center of gravity is shifting - data centers, chips, infra tech - the pipes and shovels behind AI, not just the apps people argue about on X.
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