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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open"
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (455+ words) US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 " Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'Tom's Hardware You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful A new…...
AI boosted US economy by 'basically zero' in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist — 'We think there's been a lot of misreporting of the impact that AI investment had on GDP growth"
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (373+ words) US companies are spending big, but most of that money goes overseas. "We don't actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive," said Goldman Sachs chief economist, Jan Hatzius, during a recent interview. "We think there's been a lot of…...
Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (215+ words) And id Software's Qtest multiplayer-only demo of Quake was released exactly 30 years ago today. Above, you can see Daivuk present his own tiny FPS masterwork, in a nicely structured step-by-step video, which touches on topics such as optimizing the textures,…...
AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (317+ words) AMD's share price has to hit $600 for the stock award to be fully realized AMD and Meta have just announced another colossal AI chip deal, believed to be worth over $100 billion. The new partnership will see AMD provide up to…...
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (238+ words) It's almost like we could all see this one coming. Several commenters immediately spotted the problem, all while chiding Yue for making this basic blunder while being in charge, of all things, of Alignment (AI safety) at Meta Superintelligence. Since…...
OpenAI couldn’t finance its data centers, so it took control of the hardware instead — company's chip design aspirations lag behind Google and Amazon
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (250+ words) Ultimately, none of this came to pass. According to sources cited by The Information, when OpenAI ran the numbers, it became clear the company would pay a significant premium to secure financing on its own. Lenders reportedly offered materially better…...
Qualcomm's 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment — Saudi Arabia's Humain takes delivery of 1,024 systems
6+ hour, 50+ min ago (300+ words) Qualcomm's 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment " Saudi Arabia's Humain takes delivery of 1,024 systems'Tom's Hardware You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful It's perfectly normal to consider that Nvidia and AMD are the only players in the…...
NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches
11+ hour, 59+ min ago (146+ words) NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away " repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches'Tom's Hardware You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful NASA's Perseverance…...
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models
20+ hour, 32+ min ago (224+ words) 16 million exchanges to train various models. Anthropic on Monday accused three leading Chinese developers of frontier AI models of using large-scale distillation to improve their own models by using Anthropic's Claude capabilities. In total, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million…...
Intel preps CPUs with 'Unified Core' architecture — job listing hints at evolution beyond Intel's hybrid design
23+ hour, 7+ min ago (17+ words) Intel preps CPUs with 'Unified Core' architecture " job listing hints at evolution beyond Intel's hybrid design'Tom's Hardware...