AMD and Meta announce yet another circular megamoney GPU deal, this time for $60 billion of chips and potentially a 10% stake in AMD for Meta

AMD and Meta announce yet another circular megamoney GPU deal, this time for $60 billion of chips and potentially a 10% stake in AMD for Meta

Keeping up with all the megabucks deals going on right now in AI land is pretty much a full-time job. But for what it’s worth, here’s another doozy that involves silly amounts of money and a whiff of just the sort of cannibalistic circularity that makes the whole situation so unnerving. AMD and Meta have…

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Lexar TouchLock Portable SSD review

Being able to encrypt and protect your data can be important, even if it’s to stop your little brother from accessing your Steam library, and at CES this year Lexar revealed its Touchlock SSD, which melds 128-bit AES hardware encryption and a capacity of 512 GB or 1 TB (and a 2 TB version has…

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Death Stranding 2 system requirements are good news for gamers trapped between aging PCs and skyrocketing hardware prices, and there’s even a ‘portable preset’ for playing on handhelds

After making us wait for the better part of a year, Kojima Productions finally made the PC version of Death Stranding 2 official earlier this month. And with the release now just over three weeks away, port developer Nixxes has unveiled the official PC system requirements, which I’m happy to say aren’t terribly onerous. Obviously,…

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Anthropic says it has identified thousands of ‘fraudulent accounts’ taking Claude and ‘extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models’

The question of what data AI models are trained on, and the legitimacy of that data, is a thorny one. Anthropic found itself defending its use of copyrighted material to train its Claude AI in the US last year, a case that eventually resulted in a ruling that its copyrighted scraping fell under fair use…

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