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Nvidia's next graphics trick escaped early, and the internet is already pasting it onto everything. The Verge reports that an unofficial DLSS 5 Neural Rendering file showed up in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. RenoDX modders pulled it out, got it running in Control, then pushed
If you write code in Cursor, Friday night just got messy. OpenAI said it plans to stop shipping its models into Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX finished buying earlier this month for about $60 billion in stock. The proposed shutoff date is November 12, 2026. Reuters reports OpenAI is
Lucas Ropek at TechCrunch reported Thursday that more than a hundred companies signed an open letter asking both private firms and governments to treat AI-enabled cyberattacks as a near-term problem. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are on it. So are security vendors CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, plus banks
If your Claude usage refill vanished while you were not even at the keyboard, Anthropic thinks it knows why. Bleeping Computer reported on August 30, 2026 that the company is emailing some Claude users about a campaign that steals live login sessions from infected PCs, then burns through the account&
Reuters reported on August 14, 2026, that Apple has trained a large language model just for China, with support from Alibaba. The Verge, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors all carried the same core story. Reuters cited three people familiar with the matter, unnamed because the information is sensitive and not public. Apple
On Monday, Nvidia announced it would invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data-center developer already backed by SoftBank and OpenAI. TechCrunch reported the news in an In Brief at 8:16 AM PDT on August 17, 2026, citing documents filed with the SEC by Nvidia. There is