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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service will get RTX 5080 GPUs in September, letting users of its $20/month Ultimate tier stream in 5K at up to 120fps — It'll support up to 5K at 120fps and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation. — NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling …
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X: @comcast, @maxwinebach, @nvidiagfn, and @tomwarren
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces Install-to-Play for GeForce Now, letting users install games opted into Valve's Steam Cloud Play, without waiting for Nvidia to curate them — More games, more power, more AI-generated frames. … It's been two and a half years since Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service got …
More: PC Guide
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia's app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features, including anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and ambient occlusion — You won't need to switch to Nvidia's older control panel app as much anymore. … The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of ~10% in Intel, converting some or all of Intel's $10.9B CHIPS Act grants into equity — The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official …
More: Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, Network World, Reuters, Oregonian, The Information, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Anadolu Ajansı …, Watcher Guru, Proactive, TechPowerUp, and Motley Fool
Bluesky: @paulsemenza. Threads: @tomgara. X: @hedgedirty. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead. Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, and r/intelstock
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan” — The website for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas …
More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @brasidas, @seanokane, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephcox
X: @whoisgallifrey and @xlr8harder
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
HR giant Workday says hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information, like names and email addresses, from one of its third-party CRM platforms — Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers …
More: Workday Blog, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, Engadget, Entrepreneur, Livemint, The Register, The Record, TechInformed, Security Affairs, TechRadar, and Cyber Security News
Forums: r/antiwork and r/technology
| Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET: |
Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency — Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round — - Anthropic is raising about $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation, BI confirmed. — The AI startup is being picky about the types …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @jason, @davemcclure, @bgurley, @michlimlim, @thebenbergman, @thebenbergman, and @saranormous
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games are testing game demos on Discord servers, letting users try a game without downloading it or signing up, starting with Fortnite — Try before you try before you buy. … Nvidia's GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it's also part of an intriguing new experiment.| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board — Cybersecurity company says Nir Zuk has also stepped down as a board member and will be succeeded as CTO by Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich
More: CNBC and Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton probes Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, misleading kids and other vulnerable users — Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for …
More: Texas Attorney General, Bloomberg Law, MLex, and Sherwood News
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU and the US have delayed formalizing their trade deal partly over “non-tariff barriers”, like relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line — Document formalising last month's deal delayed by squabbles over language on ‘non-tariff barriers’, bloc's officials say
More: PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, ZeroHedge News, The Information, and Capital Brief
Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @davidheniguk, and @robertscotthorton
LinkedIn: Massimo Donna and Deborah Elms
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Google increases its stake in bitcoin miner and datacenter operator TeraWulf from 8% to 14%, bringing its total investment to ~$3.2B; WULF jumps 10%+ — TeraWulf stock rallied more than 4% after Google hiked its stake in the bitcoin miner and data center operator as it funds an expansion of its Lake Mariner, New York, facility.
More: TeraWulf Inc., Benzinga, The Information, Decrypt, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, TheMinerMag, Crypto Briefing, Sherwood News, TheStreet, and Morningstar, Inc.. LinkedIn: Michael Bucella
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson, who joined in 1988 and became the company's first CSO, is leaving as part of a recent reorganization — Oracle Corp.'s longtime chief security officer, one of the highest ranking women in the cybersecurity industry …
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
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