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China launches an antitrust investigation into Nvidia as it wrestles with the US over AI chip sanctions

China has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia over possible violations of the country’s anti-monopoly laws in connection with its 2020 acquisition of Israeli chip maker Mellanox Technologies. A Bloomberg report (via The Verge) says the Chinese government approved the $7 billion deal on the condition that Nvidia not discriminate against Chinese companies, and that…

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar’s argument for authoritarianism ‘was done a little too well,’ but still believes ‘you can’t just make your tyrants cardboard villains’

If you’ve played New Vegas, you’re familiar with Caesar’s Legion. Slavedriving, overtly fascistic, and wrapped in the aesthetics of the Roman Empire⁠—but with football pads instead of lorica segmentata. It seems like the kind of faction that would be hard to present as anything but one-dimensional, abject evil. As it turns out, giving the faction’s…

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