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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the tech homogenizes game aesthetics are “completely wrong” — The CEO says artistic control remains with developers. … At a press Q&A with Tom's Hardware at GTC 2026 …
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Forums: r/accelerate, r/gamernews, r/gamingnews, r/videogames, r/nvidia, and r/pcmasterrace
| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types …
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: the US DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” — In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of its Groq chips to the Chinese market; a source says it's expected to be available in May and is not downgraded — Nvidia (NVDA.O) is preparing a version of its Groq artificial-intelligence chips that can be sold to the Chinese market … | Reuters: |
Source: Beijing has approved many Chinese companies to buy H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese embassy spokesperson said they are “not aware of the specifics” — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has won Beijing's approval to sell its second-most powerful artificial intelligence chips to China …
More: Quartz, Stratechery, PC Gamer, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, Benzinga, and Reuters
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios — Samsung Electronics Co. agreed to supply and collaborate with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on next-generation AI memory and computing technologies.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Brian Lynch, Apple's top engineering director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays — Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol — Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chengdu's government says Tim Cook attended Apple's 50th anniversary event in the city; Chinese state media called for Apple to fix its “monopolistic” App Store — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed up at a company event in China on Wednesday after the company lowered …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
The Linux Foundation says Anthropic, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI gave $12.5M in grants to help FOSS maintainers handle AI-generated security findings — Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers …
More: Developer Tech News, Help Net Security, Pulse 2.0, Neowin, The Keyword, Alpha Omega, SecurityWeek, and Phoronix
X: @linuxfoundation, @openssf, and @anthropicai
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app Apple removed from the App Store that played music from YouTube — Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
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| Jasmine Sun / The Atlantic: |
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models, like GPT-2, leading to poor writing from many top AI models — Why can't language models write well? — In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI's GPT-2 seven years ago.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Some companies are tracking employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to see whose AI strategies should be amplified and what wastefulness should be squashed — Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Quest headset users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds from June 15; virtual world access will still be available via the Meta Horizon mobile app — Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A Stanford study of 391K+ messages across nearly 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of replies, often validating delusional thinking — AI chatbots are reinforcing unhealthy beliefs in their users by agreeing even when users express delusional or harmful ideas …
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model — A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation …
More: The Independent
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is weighing legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching OpenAI's Microsoft agreement — Rift deepens as start-up tests limits of Microsoft's exclusive rights to host its models — Microsoft is weighing legal action …
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| Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: |
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine — Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
| Reuters: |
The UK FCA says Meta repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in the UK, despite committing to block them — U.S. tech giant Meta (META.O) has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in Britain …
More: The Independent and Sharecafe
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows; GPT-5.4 mini approaches GPT-5.4-level pass rates at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser — Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications … | Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$28.3B, vs. ~$28.2B est., its fifth quarter of double-digit growth, driven by gaming and ads, as it bets on agentic AI — Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a 13% rise in quarterly revenue, underscoring solid momentum in its core gaming and advertising units while it ramps up a bet on agentic AI.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London's and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI social norms, sovereign AI, and more — The head of the European office of GV talks about the AI investment cycle and predicts a comeback for Google Glass-style smart glasses| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K — An Israeli startup let its AI loose in advanced cyber games. It did better than 125,000 humans.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest — A group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. halted a $5.3 billion debt deal for software firm Qualtrics International Inc …
More: Financial Times and PYMNTS.com
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide proposal that lets companies incorporate in 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals — The European Union has unveiled a red-tape-cutting plan dubbed “EU Inc.” to boost the emergence of companies that could compete on the world stage with US and Chinese rivals.
More: Tech.eu, European Commission, Reuters, and BioXconomy
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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US — Cloud-computing startup Fluidstack Ltd. has pulled out of a high-profile €10 billion ($11.5 billion) … Sponsor Posts
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