By December 2025, while the cutting-edge focus has shifted towards CUDA 13.x (which introduced native SM_100/Blackwell support in early 2025), .
Targeting the density constraints of modern AI factories, CUDA 12.6 introduces advanced power capping features. cuda 12.6 news december 2025
NVIDIA’s EULA for 12.6, updated three weeks ago, now explicitly forbids running the CUDA runtime on "non-NVIDIA hardware via translation layers" (a direct shot at ZLUDA and Intel's SYCLomatic). But more importantly, it quietly added arbitration clauses for "AI model distribution." Lawyers are poring over whether shipping a compiled .cubin binary in a Docker container counts as distribution requiring a license. By December 2025, while the cutting-edge focus has
The NVIDIA HPC SDK and Nsight Systems have been updated alongside the driver. By December 2025