Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.

@mzeff.bsky.social reports: “Zoph told Thinking Machines CEO Mira Murati on Monday he was considering leaving, then was fired today, according to the memo from Simo. She goes on to write that OpenAI doesn’t share the same concerns about Zoph as Murati.” w

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Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Hires Three Staffers From Mira Murati’s AI Startup

7 wks / bloomberg / Natasha Mascarenhas

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

7 wks / wired / Maxwell Zeff

Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Bandcamp is taking a big stand against AI in music. In a blog post, the company confirmed that it will ban music that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI.” It also prohibits the use of AI tools to impersonate artists or music styles. Bandcam…

#ai #streaming #aiethics #genai #culture #music #community #media #contentmoderation #copyright

Bandcamp Bans AI Music

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

7 wks / reddit / /u/swe129

not a lot of incentive to avoid pissing off google when google is choking off all of the internet in the interest of keeping people on google.com via gemini text! www.theverge.com/news/861897/...

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arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/b... Bandcamp announced that it no longer permits AI-generated music. “Music & audio that is generated wholly or substantially by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp,” they wrote. The new policy also prohibits “any use of AI to

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Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform | Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans

7 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content

7 wks / reddit / /u/ornithobiography

The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations

7 wks / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

7 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing

Ian KingShirin Ghaffary / bloomberg - OpenAI signed a multiyear deal to use hardware from Cerebras Systems Inc. for 750 megawatts’ worth of computing power, an alliance that will support the company’s rapid build-out of AI infrastructure.

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #chips #openai #genai #business #datacenter #supercomputers

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Boosted AI speeds via enhanced compute

OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras Deal Promises 15x Faster AI Speed

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OpenAI Says New Compute From Cerebras Will Accelerate AI Models’ Response Time

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Detailed deal terms announced

OpenAI signs $10 billion deal with Cerebras Systems

7 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OpenAI announces $10B Cerebras deal for 750MW compute

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

OpenAI inks AI chips deal with Nvidia challenger Cerebras

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

OpenAI purchases large-scale computing power from startup Cerebras

7 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

OpenAI commits to buying over $10B worth of AI compute capacity from Cerebras Systems

7 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Cerebras and OpenAI join forces to deliver 750MW of breakthrough AI compute power in a new multi-year expansion

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10 billion, for compute from Cerebras

7 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

OpenAI Signs Another Deal With a Computer Chip Maker

7 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

OpenAI Signs Another Deal With a Computer Chip Maker

7 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

OpenAI agrees $10bn AI infrastructure deal with start-up Cerebras

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OpenAI enters $10 billion partnership with Cerebras

7 wks / reddit / /u/nimzobogo

OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing

7 wks / bloomberg / Ian KingShirin Ghaffary

OpenAI Forges Multibillion-Dollar Computing Partnership With Cerebras

7 wks / wsj / Kate Clark

IPO implications and financial shifts

Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

OpenAI Just Handed Cerebras a $10 Billion Lifeline. The Timing Tells You Everything.

7 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Cerebras scores OpenAI deal worth over $10 billion ahead of AI chipmaker's IPO

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Other miscellaneous mentions

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How are you going to pay them Sammy https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/

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The collaboration will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time consuming tasks, the companies said.

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California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

Kate Conger / nytimes - The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #california

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California probes

California Opens xAI Investigation Over Grok's Deepfake Flood

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials say

7 wks / reddit / /u/ddx-me

California Attorney General Investigating xAI Over Grok’s Deepfakes

7 wks / wsj / Georgia Wells

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

7 wks / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

California Launches Investigation Into Grok’s Nonconsensual Sexual Images

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

California investigating Grok AI over lewd fake images

7 wks / techxplore

California is investigating Grok over AI-generated CSAM and nonconsensual deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

Elon Musk's xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok's deepfake explicit images

7 wks / cnbc

Global regulatory & advocacy

‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

7 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

It’s not over, Europe’s regulators tell X

7 wks / politico / Eliza Gkritsi

Philippines to Join Indonesia, Malaysia in Blocking Musk’s Grok

7 wks / bloomberg / Cliff Harvey Venzon

Advocacy groups slam Apple and Google for hosting Grok and X apps

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

28 advocacy groups call on Apple and Google to ban Grok, X over nonconsensual deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Will Shanklin

Musk bows to pressure over Grok creating sexualised AI images

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Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

7 wks / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Grok Generated 6,700 Nudifying Images Per Hour. Musk Says He Saw 'Literally Zero.

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Senate passes bill letting victims sue over Grok AI explicit images

7 wks / reddit / /u/sksarkpoes3

Platform policy clampdown

Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

X says it has blocked Grok from editing images of real people into revealing clothing

7 wks / techspot

Grok now bans all undressing images -- where it's forced to

7 wks / appleinsider

Musk’s xAI bows to pressure and blocks Grok from ‘nudifying’ images

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

Musk rushes to fix disgusting Grok replies

7 wks / news.com.au

X Announces Grok Can No Longer Edit Real People’s Images, But Website Still Allows It

7 wks / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

X says Grok, Musk's AI chatbot, is blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal

7 wks / go

Grok blocks X users from creating images of real people in ‘revealing clothing’

7 wks / mashable

X Tightens Grok Image Generation Following International Backlash

7 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Musk’s Grok barred from undressing AI images after global backlash

7 wks / scmp

Musk's xAI limits Grok's ability to create sexualized images of real people on X after backlash

7 wks / cnbc

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

X to stop Grok AI from undressing images of real people after backlash

7 wks / bbc

XAI Blocks Grok From Creating Sexualized Images of Real People

7 wks / bloomberg / Kurt Wagner

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis

7 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

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X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the f

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Le Monde publie de fausses nouvelles. www.theverge.com/news/862372/...

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California DOJ is the latest to initiate a formal investigation of xAI and its Grok issues - the AI chatbot and image generator enabled widespread creation and publication of deepfake NCII & CSAM (nonconsensual intimate images, and child sexual abuse

7 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

VoiceRun gets $5.5M in seed funding to give enterprises more control over voice AI agents

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - VoiceRun, a startup that’s helping enterprises to develop voice-enabled artificial intelligence agents that they control, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to help customers move beyond simple pilots and demonstrations and deploy voice-powered appli…

#ai #startups #vc #saas #enterprise #voice #genai #assistant #api

VoiceRun Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding

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VoiceRun gets $5.5M in seed funding to give enterprises more control over voice AI agents

7 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build voice agent factory

7 wks / techcrunch / Dominic-Madori Davis

British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Microsoft's AI assistant hallucinated a soccer match.

#ai #techpolicy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #uk #soccer #police #copilot

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

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Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans | Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools

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British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

7 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

7 wks / arstechnica / Nate Anderson

UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake

7 wks / slashdot / msmash

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

7 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Jay Peters / theverge - Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google…

#ai #dataprivacy #google #aiethics #genai #youtube #alphabet #assistant #digitalprivacy #gemini

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Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data (24)
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Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements

Apple Picking Google Gemini to Power Siri Was About Buying Time

7 wks / cnet / Imad Khan

3 Rumored Features Exclusive To Gemini-Powered Siri That Android Desperately Needs

7 wks / bgr

Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

7 wks / cnbc

Apple May Use Customized Google Gemini

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Will Siri Really Be ‘Powered by Gemini’?

7 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri

7 wks / appleinsider

Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

7 wks / digitaltrends

Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data

Google Wants Gemini to Know You Better Than You Know Yourself

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence in the U.S.

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Google introduces Personal Intelligence personalization tool for Gemini

7 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Google Integrates Gmail, YouTube, and Search Into Gemini

7 wks / eweek / David Curry

Gemini can now access your photos and read your Gmail messages

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps

7 wks / blog / John Gruber

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

7 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

For AI to be truly useful, it needs to understand you. With Personal Intelligence, we’re beginning to solve this. With your permission, Gemini can now securely reason across your own data to answer questions that generic models simply can't - like suggest

7 wks / x / @demishassabis

Alphabet(GOOG) Stock: Pushes Forward as Gemini Gains New Personal Intelligence Features Across Core Google Apps

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Google Enables AI Assistant Gemini to Draw Information From Emails and Photos

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers | The feature will start with paid users only, and it’s off by default.

7 wks / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Google Gemini’s ‘Personal Intelligence’ Pulls from Your Search and YouTube History

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Google Gemini Can Now Be Personalized Using Data From Google Apps

7 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Google taps its massive data advantage with new Gemini feature

7 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google Gemini’s Most Useful Update Ever: It Finally Knows Who You Are

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

7 wks / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Gemini's New Personal Intelligence Gives Android The Assistant iPhone Keeps Promising

7 wks / bgr

Gemini's New 'Personalized Intelligence' Uses Your Photos and Gmail to Customize Responses

7 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it

7 wks / engadget / Andre Revilla

Google Gemini Can Proactively Analyze Users’ Gmail, Photos, Searches

7 wks / bloomberg / Chris Welch

Google taps emails and YouTube history in push for personalised AI

7 wks / ft

Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more

7 wks / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Gemini is winning

7 wks / reddit / /u/Alone-Competition-77

The Model Matters: I Tried Vibe Coding a Project With Different Gemini Models

7 wks / cnet / Blake Stimac

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities

7 wks / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Gemini is winning

7 wks / theverge / David Pierce

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Important announcement on the path towards Jarvis -> Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users

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Google Gemini is now asking users to let it train on their personal email and photos, and offering up bizarre reasons why this is meant to be good. It is not, and the timing of the news is suspicious.

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This is very much the interconnected extension of a Gemini Live aspiration for glasses etc. So it knows, sees, contextualizes. By getting all the data www.theverge.com/news/861576/...

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Every day a new way for AI to be more intrusive and unwanted.

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Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

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depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security

Clinton / ventureburn - depthfirst Expands Its AI Security Platform With New Capital depthfirst has secured $40 million in a Series A round. The raise was led by Accel. Other investors include Alt Capital,The post depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security app…

#ai #vc #cybersecurity #ml #enterprise #infosec #business #california

Depthfirst secures $40M to expand agentic approach to software security

7 wks / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.

7 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

AI security firm, depthfirst, announces $40 million series A

7 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security

7 wks / ventureburn / Clinton

depthfirst Raises $40M in Series A Funding

7 wks / finsmes / FinSMEs

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Support Rolls Out To All NVIDIA App Users, New Features Also Added

Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - NVIDIA's DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution technology is now available to all NVIDIA App users alongwith a new list of features. NVIDIA App Officially Adds DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution Support, Increasing Image Fidelity Greatly With The Newest RTX Super Resolution M…

#ai #software #hardware #ml #nvidia #apps #performance #videogames #updates #developertools

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution leaves beta, available now to Nvidia app users — update includes support for over 400 titles with new presets

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Nvidia Proves It Still Has the Best Software for Better-Looking Games https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-proves-it-still-has-the-best-software-for-better-looking-games-2000710251

7 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Nvidia Proves It Still Has the Best Software for Better-Looking Games

7 wks / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 is now available to all, with improved image quality and higher GPU demands

7 wks / techspot

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Comes to All GeForce RTX GPUs Today

7 wks / techpowerup

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Support Rolls Out To All NVIDIA App Users, New Features Also Added

7 wks / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

Developers Can Now Add NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 To Their Games Through DLSS Streamline Plugin, RTX Neural Texture Compression SDK Available Too

7 wks / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

NVIDIA rolls out DLSS 4.5 to all RTX GPUs

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution leaves beta, available now to Nvidia app users — update includes support for over 400 titles with new presets

7 wks / tomshardware

Nvidia’s new app update includes DLSS 4.5 and more Control Panel features

7 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

tomshardware - Chinese customs officers were allegedly told to disallow the entry of Nvidia H200 chips, effectively banning the entry of these AI processors into the country. The command comes as other sources say that Beijing will only allow the import of these AI GPUs…

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #government #supplychain #regulation

Chinese Customs Block NVIDIA H200 Shipments Hours After US Approval, Freezing $54B in Orders

7 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

7 wks / tomshardware

Confusion mounts as China issues vague rules on Nvidia H200 imports

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

China Limits Nvidia Chip Purchases to ‘Special Circumstances’

7 wks / eweek / Kezia Jungco

Beijing reportedly limiting H200 purchases to those with ‘special circumstances’ — sources suggest only university R&D labs can acquire Nvidia GPUs in China

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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing

Boosted AI speeds via enhanced compute

Detailed deal terms announced

IPO implications and financial shifts

Other miscellaneous mentions

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California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

California probes

Global regulatory & advocacy

Platform policy clampdown

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VoiceRun gets $5.5M in seed funding to give enterprises more control over voice AI agents

British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements

Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data

Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments

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depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Support Rolls Out To All NVIDIA App Users, New Features Also Added

Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

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