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ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace

ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing…

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NVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX.

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Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem.

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Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them.

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From Chips to Skills, NVIDIA and Korea Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration

NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding their collaboration across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, from AI…

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NVIDIA Dynamo Recipes Bring Korea’s Leading Open Models to Production

NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models: A.X K2 from SK Telecom, K-EXAONE 2.0 from LG AI Research,…

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Law firm files class-action lawsuit against Nvidia after CEO Jensen Huang confirms affair with alleged Chinese spy

Class-action lawsuit and legal investigations against Nvidia over securities fraud start flying

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Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huang

The leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his…

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Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem

Nvidia is probing whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO through an affair.

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WoW: Forever is the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history, says Blizzard

World of Warcraft: Forever is the biggest launch in the MMO's history, pulling in more concurrent players than any previous WoW launch.

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Google TPU 8tx Pairs AMD EPYC Turin Hosts with Confidential Computing while TPU 8i Max Doubles Memory Bandwidth

The new Google TPU 8tx pairs AMD EPYC Turin hosts with confidential computing while TPU 8i Max doubles memory bandwidth for inference

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Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features

After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro…

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Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models

Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical…

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(PR) Google Extends Tensor Processor Unit Series with TPU 8tx and 8i Max

While we've always co-designed our TPUs in partnership with Google DeepMind, we're now increasingly getting feedback from external organizations on…

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Nvidia cracks down on overseas cloud AI GPU rentals for China

Nvidia may cap cloud partners’ Chinese business at 49% as Chinese firms buy up more than 1 million gaming and workstation GPUs.

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Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts

After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your…

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Lawyer builds private AI server with eight used Nvidia V100 GPUs

A lawyer runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on eight used 2018-era Nvidia V100 GPUs at up to 215 tokens/s, keeping case files in the office.

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ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5

The Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of…

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Grab AMD's fastest mainstream gaming CPU for a record-low $399.99 right now

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price of $399.95, with the 9850X3D down to $419.99.

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Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor is laying off staff, a month after it started bringing back furloughed devs

The game sold roughly 1 million copies in its first month and a half

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New Linux Patches Bring-Up The Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, Qualcomm Halliday SoC

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches.

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Intel ANV Lands Bitrate Control For AV1 Encoding

Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on enhancing the Vulkan Video support in the Mesa ANV driver for better open-source video acceleration…

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Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns

Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users.

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Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 with a price cut and stronger coding scores

On Monday, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, the latest versions of its duo of flagship models. Like before,

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Google claims its new AI software cuts inference latency by over 90% — but there’s a catch

Google’s eighth-generation TPU announcement on Monday included more than new chips, introducing TPU Sync, an open-source system designed to speed

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Cursor and Google join OpenAI in giving coding agents a voice. Claude Code stays silent.

Two of the biggest players in the AI coding space are betting that developers want to talk to their agents

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Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.

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Meta launches Muse Ember to take on Claude Haiku and GPT-6 Luna

Meta on Monday debuted Muse Ember, a smaller, more efficient multimodal member of its Muse model family. The company is

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Rumour: Samsung's New Chip Process Kicks Off 'Nintendo Switch 2 Lite' Speculation

Update: Digital Foundry weighs in on the rumour. Samsung reportedly has a new chip in the works that could help make dreams of a 'Switch 2 Lite' a…

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OpenIndiana 2026.10 released

Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after…

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Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis

Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.

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Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines

Anthropic bought billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.

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Meta expands Instagram’s AI age-guessing tech globally

Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.

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Dell PowerEdge R770AP Review One Fast Intel Xeon 6 Server

Today we are taking a look at Dell's PowerEdge R770AP. The 2U server goes all-in on performance with a dual-socket Xeon 6 setup and 24 channels of…

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Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production

Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around eight months.

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The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age

Linux developers are preparing to make Intel’s ancient MultiMedia eXtensions irrelevant, with the last MMX code now set to be removed from the kernel.

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Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent

It's unclear which group entered the construction site first, but the action led to the arrest of 150 to 200 protesters.

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How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating…

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Two Chinese companies cleared to buy banned Nvidia AI chips have empty offices and unknown addresses

The offices for New Matrix and Maginfra, both approved to receive H200 chips, appear abandoned, and people in the buildings say they're unfamiliar…

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Father Arrested For Leaving 6-Year-Old Daughter Sleeping In Line For Pokémon Cards

NL used Rage. A 35-year-old South Carolina man has been arrested and accused of leaving his 6-year-old daughter asleep while waiting in line for…

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AMD PerfOpt Performance Boosting Code Tweaked For Linux 7.4-rc2

Of the many exciting changes in Linux 7.4, one of the exciting out-of-the-box performance improvements is the new "PerfOpt" functionality for AMD…

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Sony announces new PlayStation Portal with secret features coming in the future

Sony has announced a new version of the PlayStation Portal featuring additional internal storage, teasing future functionality that has yet to be…

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Web3Auth Flaw Exploited to Steal Keplr Crypto, Provider Empties Other Wallets for Safety

Some people who set up a Keplr crypto wallet with their Google or Apple account have had money stolen by an attacker.

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Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

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Microsoft clarifies modern Registry Editor rumors after sample app is mistaken for new feature

A new Registry Editor sample app has caused a stir online after people mistook it for a real replacement for the existing Registry Editor on Windows…

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Discover more of what matters, every time you open a new tab in Microsoft Edge

A new browser tab is full of possibilities. It can be the start of something you set out to do—or a chance to discover something you didn't know.

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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

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‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Gets a Magical NVIDIA DLSS 5 Upgrade on GeForce NOW

Hogwarts Legacy receives an NVIDIA DLSS 5 upgrade with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering today, bringing lifelike lighting and materials to the wizarding…

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Sony delays PlayStation's Pulse Elevate speakers indefinitely, less than a week before launch

Sony has delayed its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers indefinitely, less than a week before they were due to launch.

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Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs

We built a vendor-neutral accelerator plugin architecture in lldb-server for debugging applications that span CPUs and GPUs.

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Custom Hogwarts Legacy RTX 5090 Founders Edition Up for Grabs Until November 12

NVIDIA is giving away a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition with a custom Hogwarts Legacy wrap to celebrate DLSS 5 arriving in the game on November 5.

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Intel Razor Lake-S Reportedly Due in 2028 on LGA-1954

Intel's Razor Lake desktop processors, the generation that follows Nova Lake-S, are currently slated for 2028, according to well-known Intel leaker…

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Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology

Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing.

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of a Chinese spy plot

Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of Chinese plot — officials mention growing concerns over national security

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TSMC denies exploring 3D DRAM at Nvidia's request

Nvidia reportedly asks TSMC to produce '3D DRAM' to address memory shortages.

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Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research

Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment…

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Vulkan 1.4.368 Released With New Extensions From Valve & NVIDIA

Vulkan 1.4.368 is out as the newest weekly spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API...

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OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.

OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.

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AMD CEO Lisa Su: 'We are a data center-first company'

Congratulations.

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FragPunk Reveals Farlands: New Delivery PvPvE Adventure Now Available in Early Access

FragPunk has launched its biggest new chapter yet with Farlands, a permanent, multiplayer delivery-driven PvPvE adventure where dozens of players…