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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia said newly announced RTX AI PC laptops from Asus and MSI will have up to GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs and “systems-on-a-chip with Windows 11 AI PC capabilities” — Nvidia and AMD are gearing up to launch gaming laptops that include the AI Copilot Plus features that Microsoft just announced for Qualcomm-powered laptops.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Tom's Hardware, Android Authority, Laptop Mag, PCMag, Game Rant, HotHardware, SiliconANGLE, and TechRadar
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia announces plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025, and Blackwell's successor, Rubin, for 2026 that will use HBM4 — - CEO Jensen Huang reveals plans for annual upgrade cycle — Company details plans for Blackwell Ultra and subsequent chips| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In a demo, Nvidia shows its G-Assist AI chatbot that could guide users through PC games based on voice queries, configure optimal settings, and more — When Nvidia first announced G-Assist it was an April Fools' prank in 2017 that joked about an AI assistant being able to help you play …
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Forums: r/artificial and r/pcgaming
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD says the 3nm EPYC Turin data center chips will launch in the second half of 2024, based on Zen 5 architecture, featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads — 192 cores, 385 threads, socket compatibility. What's not to like? — AMD Lisa Su announced during her Computex 2024 keynote …
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils four new Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs slated for July, based on its new Zen 5 architecture, which it says delivers 16% more instructions per cycle — During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors.
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| CRN: |
AMD announces a yearly data center GPU release cycle, starting with Instinct MI325X, slated for later in 2024 and meant to best Nvidia H200 in peak performance — The chip designer says the Instinct MI325X data center GPU will best Nvidia's H200 in memory capacity, memory bandwidth …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD announces two new Ryzen AI 300 series mobile chips, Ryzen AI 9 365 and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, each with a 50 TOPS NPU, shipping in July — AMD dramatically boots its NPU TOPS, the magic number that grants PCs new AI powers. — AMD should enter the Copilot+ generation of PCs …
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Forums: r/Amd, r/wallstreetbets, r/AMD_Stock, and r/hardware
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at the $799 ROG Ally X, shipping July 22: 24GB RAM, 80 watt-hour battery that doesn't feel heavy, better and lighter joysticks, and more — $799 for twice the battery, twice the storage, and loads of small improvements. … When Valve introduced the Steam Deck OLED, I called it “everything the original should have been.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and filings detail Sam Altman's investment portfolio as he and his venture funds have invested in 400+ companies and his holdings are worth $2.8B+ — Many companies backed by CEO do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the AI boom driven by the blockbuster startup, raising questions of conflicts
More: Business Insider
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
Q&A with FTC's Privacy and Identity Protection executive Ben Wiseman on proposed commercial surveillance rules, connected car industry's data practices, more — I can more broadly speak about the increased rulemaking over the past several years and I think it reflects two things.
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| Politico: |
Donald Trump joins TikTok, which he tried to ban during his presidency; a TikTok official claims the app has a 2:1 ratio of pro-Trump versus pro-Biden content — Trump's joining of TikTok is a major win for the embattled app that's fighting for its existence in Washington.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale — Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database …
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
More: Perplexity Blog, TechTalks, and The Decoder
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