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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 21, 2026Published at 2:08 AM EDT · New York
Germany Signs Industrial AI Declaration With Nvidia, Committing Several Hundred Million Euros to Compute and Model Training
About a dozen German firms including Siemens, Audi and Black Forest Labs will take part, and Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center has opened a parallel program giving startups sovereign compute.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang appeared together at the Invest in Germany Summit, held in the Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, to discuss Germany's industrial AI plans. The federal gover…
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