The Daily Grind: Do you wish that Blizzard had made a StarCraft MMO?
I’m both happy and sympathetic for StarCraft fans, who have an open-world shooter looming in their future — but have to wait over three years...
Chinese state media counters Anthropic’s call to put brakes on AI development — paper says move is ‘a response to Chinese competition’
State media outlet China Daily posits that Anthropic’s Dario Amodei made the call to limit frontier AI development because Chinese AI models are catching up with American AI labs.
Pick up a giant 18-inch RTX 5080-powered Asus gaming laptop from Best Buy and save $600 — the ROG Strix G18 also comes with 32GB of memory and a 2TB SSD
Go big with an 18-inch gaming laptop monster. Save $600 on the RTX-5080-powered Asus ROG Strix G18 gaming laptop at Best Buy.
Jensen Huang thinks China will develop its own advanced lithography chipmaking tools by 2030 — Nvidia CEO says achievement of that capability ‘is just a matter of time’
Nvidia CEO thinks that in light of his view of a three- to four-year timeline for Chinese development of advanced semi tooling, the country is “already there.”
SK hynix reportedly discussing US memory chip manufacturing with Intel — options include leasing Ohio plant or forming joint venture with other AI hyperscalers
Sources say SK hynix and Intel are in talks to start HBM manufacturing in the United States. Both companies refused to confirm the rumors, though, as SK hynix could potentially be put in a precarious position as trade talks between Seoul and Washington continue.
‘Defeated’ GPT-6 Astra model spent several hours just farming potatoes after being blown up by a Creeper in Minecraft — OpenAI offering gets further than any other AI system in 141-hour test
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra spent hours just farming potatoes after dying and losing all of its gear during a Minecraft test.
AI enthusiast builds GPT-6 Astra-powered bot to take on Balatro’s Gold Stake Black Deck — bot leverages Python for numerical tools, beats hardest difficulty repeatedly
A Reddit user has shared details of a new Balatro-playing AI bot that took on the infamous Gold Stake Black Deck with aplomb.
AWS tells clients to abandon Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes — Amazon offers no recovery timeline as UAE mulls underground data centers
Amazon Web Services’ data centers in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain were struck by drone attacks more than six months ago. Now, the company has told customers to move their data to other regions, and it has no details on when repair work will be completed.
HP ZBook Ultra G3a Unlocks 160GB VRAM To Run Massive Local AI Models
HP is taking aim at mobile developers and data scientists with the ZBook Ultra G3a, a 16-inch mobile workstation designed to run massive local AI models without relying on cloud infrastructure. Or as the company refers to it in its press release, a personal AI factory for professionals, powered by AMD and enhanced by Perplexity.
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Nvidia reportedly denies RTX 5090 warranty over faded serial number — $6,500 GPU blemish not an isolated incident, according to customers
Redditor reported that Nvidia allegedly rejected their warranty claims for GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards because the serial number on the bracket was unreadable.