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Nvidia has officially rolled out DLSS 5 on RTX 50-series GPUs and GeForce Now, months after a divisive March preview that drew comparisons to a generative AI filter. NBA 2K27, launching September 3rd, is currently the only game supporting the feature, while previously teased titles like Resident Evil Requiem, EA Sports FC, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy remain unsupported.
MediaTek stock jumped 10% on Tuesday following news that Nvidia will invest $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by the Taiwanese chipmaker. The deal deepens a partnership aimed at expanding MediaTek's presence in data center chips, extending a rally that has seen its shares nearly triple this year.
A writing contest is inviting entries that envision a future where GPU compute has scaled enough that every person on Earth could have access to the equivalent of a high-end AI chip like the B300, running frontier language models around the clock. The prompt notes today's AI access is bottlenecked by scarce GPU supply, limiting who can use top-tier models like Fable or Sol.
Anthropic has struck a $35 billion cloud infrastructure deal centered on a Texas data center, with Nvidia supplying the chips and holding the lease itself. The arrangement lets Nvidia use its balance sheet to underpin the buildout rather than Anthropic financing the hardware directly.
Jerry James benchmarked an 8-GPU NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell system paired with an AMD EPYC 9555 CPU, offering 768GB of combined GDDR7 memory. Rather than splitting huge models like Llama-3.1 405B or DeepSeek-R1 671B across all eight PCIe cards, which introduces heavy latency, the team found the setup performs best running independent single-GPU model instances in parallel.
Jim Cramer praised outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook, arguing he has been unfairly overshadowed by Steve Jobs despite delivering massive shareholder returns. Cook officially transitions to executive chairman on Tuesday, handing the CEO role to hardware chief John Ternus, after Apple's market cap grew from about $350 billion to over $4.7 trillion during his 15-year tenure.
Nvidia is putting $3.5 billion into Taiwan's MediaTek, with the chipmaker agreeing to build custom AI silicon for cloud providers using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology. The arrangement lets those custom chips slot directly into Nvidia-based data centers, tying MediaTek's designs into Nvidia's broader hardware ecosystem.
TIME's newly published 2026 TIME100 AI list left out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both companies dominating GPU supply for AI infrastructure. Instead, the list includes figures like Ben Affleck, Bernie Sanders and Paris Hilton, while Nvidia's only representative is its sustainability chief Josh Parker, featured for work on data center energy use and cooling.
Nvidia's newly released 615.56 driver blocks the core power limit adjustments that the third-party utility mVolt+ used to push RTX 50-series GPUs well past their rated power limits. Users report the screen goes black, mimicking a driver crash, whenever the tool tries to apply extra current, regardless of the settings used. The app had previously let enthusiasts drive cards like the RTX 5090 to 650-700W and an Asus ROG Astra RTX 5080 to 680W without VBIOS swaps or hardware mods.
Taoyuan prosecutors raided Unimicron Technology's headquarters and a plant, questioning 14 staff over allegations the company relabeled China-manufactured circuit boards as Taiwan-origin products. Several executives were released on bail ranging from NT$300,000 to NT$15 million, and the investigation into possible forgery and false origin-marking continues.
New pricing data tracked across 10 countries shows graphics card prices jumping sharply in the six weeks since the last survey, reversing a modest decline seen earlier in 2026. Nvidia's GeForce lineup appears to be absorbing the steepest increases, based on lowest verified in-stock prices from comparison sites in each region.
Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX is constructing a foundry in Bastrop, Texas, dedicated to casting turbine blades and vanes, a notoriously difficult manufacturing bottleneck in gas turbine production. Musk said the in-house casting operation could cut up to 18 months off the timeline for bringing new natural gas turbines online, supplementing solar power as SpaceX and Tesla scale up 100GW/year of solar capacity.