Residents and advocacy group Stand.earth allege that the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey — tied to a $19.4 billion Nebius-Microsoft GPU deal — has been running dozens of unpermitted gas turbines and building an unpermitted 1.5-million-gallon LNG storage tank near two schools. Locals say they only learned the site was a data center after the Microsoft deal became public, and complaints about nighttime noise and air pollution led to a delayed town hall in January 2026, months after construction began.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-29
South Korea's government will roll out a free generative AI program called 'AI for All' starting with beta testing in September, expanding to the whole population later this year. Three consortia, including groups led by the nation's top telecom carriers and Kakao's operator, will build apps that connect to government systems for tasks like booking medical appointments, apartment hunting, and tax filing, with no token limits on usage.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-29
President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's cellphone in the middle of a company-wide staff meeting on Thursday, with Trump's voice audible through Huang's onstage microphone before Huang briefly stepped away and returned within a minute. The call came the same day Nvidia launched an employee-funded political action committee and a day after the company posted quarterly revenue of $96 billion, up 106 percent year over year.
wired.com
· 2026-08-28
AI cloud provider Lambda has secured $1 billion in private, short-dated debt arranged by JP Morgan Chase to purchase Nvidia AI chips it plans to lease to Microsoft, according to Bloomberg. This follows a $1 billion secured credit facility Lambda closed in May and a $926 million loan this week for Nvidia GB300 GPUs tied to a separate contract with Nvidia itself.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-28
Shares of The Cheesecake Factory, the casual dining chain, have climbed 122% so far this year, a gain that outstrips the year-to-date performance of several Magnificent Seven tech stocks, including Nvidia. The rally highlights how a traditional restaurant business has outperformed some of the market's most closely watched technology giants.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-28
An early, unofficial leak of NVIDIA's upcoming DLSS 5 technology has surfaced, showing its neural rendering applied to games like Control and Skyrim. The AI-altered faces look strangely aged or overly realistic while clashing with untouched, lower-poly bodies and stiff animations, producing an uncanny visual mismatch. Testing also showed a steep performance cost, with Control's frame rate reportedly dropping from 71 fps to 35 fps at 4K on an RTX 5070 Ti when Neural Rendering was enabled.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-28
Nvidia is said to be closing in on a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, the widely used hub for open-weight AI models, following its $6 billion deal with Poolside and Stripe's over $7 billion purchase of OpenRouter. Together the deals mark a surge of major capital flowing into companies built around freely distributed AI models rather than proprietary frontier systems.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-28
MSI's new Katana 15 HX C14 gaming laptop offers a choice of DDR4-3200 or DDR5 memory across two regional variants, a move aimed at keeping prices down amid soaring DRAM costs. The laptop can be configured with up to a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, alongside dual PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 slots and a cooling system rated for 170W combined power.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-28
According to The Information, the Trump administration is preparing a new export control aimed at closing a loophole that lets Chinese firms tap advanced AI compute through remote servers hosted in Thailand and Singapore, countries not currently bound by China-specific chip restrictions. The Commerce Department could circulate the draft rule to industry groups for feedback as early as September.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-28
Nvidia has registered a new federal political action committee that will collect voluntary donations of up to $5,000 a year from eligible employees to fund candidates and party committees. The company told staff that upcoming congressional decisions on AI regulation, export controls and infrastructure could significantly affect the industry. This move follows Nvidia's hiring of a new chief external affairs officer and five outside lobbying firms, alongside a jump in federal lobbying spending to over $2.5 million this year.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-28
An early, unofficial build of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 upscaling technology has surfaced through mods, and initial testing suggests it produces worse image quality than expected while cutting gaming performance roughly in half. Testers say the AI-driven rendering ignores the original artistic style of games, producing an over-processed look rather than a faithful enhancement.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-08-28
A day after DLSS 5's nvngx_dlssnr.dll leaked via an early NBA 2K27 build and was ported into Control, modder Uncle Burrito patched the file so it runs on Ada Lovelace RTX 4080 cards instead of only Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs. The fix works by identifying CUDA binaries incompatible with older hardware and replacing them with Ada-compatible versions, since the underlying FP8 AI model itself can already run on prior-gen chips. Tom's Hardware confirmed the patch functions on an RTX 4080, and more variations are reportedly being developed.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-28
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