This issue covers news from March 14 to March 17. Nvidia Launches Vera CPU at GTC, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-vera-cpu-purpose-built-for-agentic-ai Nvidia unveiled the Vera CPU at GTC 2026, calling it the world’s first processor purpose-built for agentic AI and reinforcement learning. The headline numbers: twice the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional rack-scale CPUs. The context here is that agentic AI has fundamentally changed what compute infrastructure needs to do. When AI shifts from answering questions to planning tasks, calling tools, running code, and validating results, the bottleneck moves beyond GPUs. CPUs handle the orchestration layer — moving data around, managing concurrent environments, coordinating workflows. Vera targets this gap with optimized single-thread performance and bandwidth per core.