Month: February 2024
Intel’s progress with Battlemage is rumored to be sluggish – and 2nd-gen Arc GPUs may not arrive until 2025
Progress with Intel’s Battlemage graphics cards might be looking a bit shaky, going off a new update from a YouTube leaker. This is Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), a regular source of leaks from the GPU world (and CPUs, plus consoles too), who has a new video out which digs…
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OpenAI is looking to build an AI chip empire worth more than AMD, Nvidia and intel combined — Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion says WSJ report
In a bid to reshape the global AI chip industry, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in discussions with investors to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the ambitious fundraising effort, if successful, would surpass the combined worth of AMD, Nvidia, and Intel,…
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Wyze cameras let owners see into a stranger’s home — again
Update: After an AWS outage this morning, our servers got overloaded and it corrupted some user data. We have now identified a security issue where some users were able to see thumbnails of cameras that were not their own in the Events tab. Fortunately, they were not able to view…
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You should play Splatoon with your family
Usually my younger siblings wait until I’m done with work — they’re in earlier time zones than I am, so they’re being polite — then the group chat lights up: “Splat.” “Splat.” “Splat.” This is our shorthand for “It’s time to play Splatoon 3.” I am not what you would…
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OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has denied OpenAI’s application to register the word GPT, which means generative pre-trained transformer, saying GPT is too general a term to register and can prevent competitors from correctly describing their products as a GPT. OpenAI argued in its application that GPT is…
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Amazon’s best Presidents’ Day deals are on its own devices – shop the 15 best
Amazon’s Presidents’ Day sale is up and running as we head into the holiday weekend, and while there are hundreds of deals available, some of the best offers are on the retailer’s own devices. You can save up to 45% on Amazon’s Echo smart speaker, Fire tablets, smart TVs, Ring…
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