Netflix Games Are Inching Ever Closer to Your TV

Image: Netflix Back in August, Netflix announced it would be continuing to build out its gaming realm—introduced with 2021’s rollout of mobile games—by testing bringing games to any device where people watch Netflix, including TVs and computers. Now, that plan is inching closer to reality. Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets … Read more

Nvidia is raising the price of GeForce Now, but not in the US

Nvidia spokesperson Jordan Dodge tells me the United States is currently exempt from the price changes. “No price change happening in the US,” he says. The company says the hikes “account for increased operational costs” in the specific countries where they’re rolling out, according to a customer help page, and that GeForce Now founders can … Read more

Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority

Nvidia’s France offices were raided by the country’s competition authority this week, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. While the French agency doesn’t mention Nvidia by name, it confirms it carried out a raid over concerns about anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards industry. Sources tell the WSJ that French authorities specifically … Read more

Microsoft technology chief says supply of Nvidia AI chips is improving

Nilay Patel, left, editor in chief of The Verge, and Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, speak at Vox Media’s Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Jerod Harris | Vox Media | Getty Images Microsoft technology chief Kevin Scott said on Wednesday that the company is … Read more

AI chip firm Kneron raises $49 million as it looks to rival Nvidia

Albert Liu, founder and CEO of Kneron. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile | Getty Images Kneron, a U.S.-based semiconductor startup, said on Tuesday it raised a fresh round of funding as it looks to ramp up the commercialization of its artificial intelligence chips, which it hopes will rival Nvidia’s. The company said it raised an additional … Read more

Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool

Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion. Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its commercial customers. And it’s bringing … Read more

Getty Changes Tune on AI, Reveals New Art Generator

After grinding its teeth about AI for over a year, one of the biggest stock image sites around, Getty Images, will let subscribers start creating their own AI images through its site. The company promises users won’t have to worry about all those sticky copyright issues since its AI is only trained on Getty’s own … Read more

Starfield is a ‘bizarrely worse expertise’ on Nvidia and Intel, says Digital Foundry

Starfield is likely one of the most demanding video games on PC that we’ve seen lately, with even the RTX 4090 paired with AMD’s newest Ryzen 7800X3D nearly hitting 60fps on common at 4K with all of the settings maxed out. As reviewers and testers scramble to determine why Starfield is so heavy, the consultants … Read more

Nvidia is flying excessive because of AI

When Nvidia introduced eye-popping earnings on Wednesday with three-digit year-over-year development, it was simple to get caught up within the pleasure. The corporate introduced in $13.5 billion for the quarter, up 101% over the prior yr, and properly over its $11 billion steerage. That’s definitely one thing to get enthusiastic about. Nvidia is benefiting from … Read more