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Nvidia has put NBA 2K27 to work as the first showcase for DLSS 5 on its RTX 50 cards showing how its GeForce RTX 50 stack performs across 1080p, 1440p and 4K. The important split is between native DLSS 5 games and modded examples floating around online. Nvidia says developers will control visual settings in native titles, while players will get a simple on/off toggle.

AMD reckons 3D DRAM could cut memory power, but old packaging headaches keep the idea stuck in the lab. According to Tom’s Hardware Italy, AMD is looking at 3D DRAM combined with hybrid bonding that could be up to 17 times more energy-efficient than conventional HBM stacks using microbumps. For those not in the know, 3D DRAM involves stacking DRAM and linking it with copper-to-copper connections, rather than relying on tiny solder balls between layers.

OpenAI has fired back at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, accusing it of using trade secrets claims to hobble recruitment. For those not in the know, Job’s Mob filed the lawsuit in the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI chief hardware officer Tang Tan and OpenAI technical staff member Chang Liu of taking confidential information after exiting its cult.

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has subbed its Canadian fanboys and followed Donald Trump in renaming a chunk of the nation’s geography. For those who came in late, Trump threw his toys out of the pram when he was disrespected by the Ontario premier Doug Ford for slapping tariffs on Canada after insisting that they should stop speaking French and should not make trade agreements without the US’s blessing. His response was to rename Lake Ontario Lake America.

Action camera maker GoPro is buying into AI data centres through a $285 million merger with optical outfit Starman Optical. According to Engadget, GoPro is the latest odd name to wander into the AI data centre market through a deal with optical photonics company Starman Optical. GoPro shareholders, with the company staying publicly listed, will receive $285 million when the deal closes.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and AMD chief executive Lisa Su were missing from TIME’s 2026 AI power list. According to Tom’s Hardware  the omission is odd given Huang’s GPUs power the training kit behind frontier AI models. Nvidia has just reported one of the largest quarterly earnings hauls in US corporate history. Huang was named one of eight TIME-designated “Architects of AI” in the magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year package.

Chinese AI models are now up to 90 per cent cheaper to run than leading US rivals, rattling Western AI economics. Juniper Research  found that Chinese AI models are rapidly changing where developers buy AI. OpenRouter, an open marketplace where developers choose among competing AI models, recorded a sharp shift away from American labs. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic accounted for about 30 per cent of work conducted on the platform, down from about 70 per cent last year.

Intel and AMD x86 chips have been caught in a cache-flushing mess involving WBINVD and modern power-saving tricks. According to Phoronix the newly disclosed vulnerability affects the WBINVD instruction, which is supposed to write back and invalidate cache lines before power state changes. When that process goes wonky, stale data can remain visible where it should have vanished. Chipzilla and AMD are both in the frame, though their fixes are taking different routes.

AMD has launched a Zen 5 laptop chip without an NPU, and gamers are unlikely to shed a tear. The Ryzen 7 449 has turned up inside Mechrevo’s Phenom 15 Air, giving AMD a neat split in its mobile line-up. Ryzen AI 400 chips get the XDNA 2 neural processor and Copilot+ badge, while Ryzen 400 parts dump the AI block for buyers who would rather spend the budget on a proper GPU. According to Notebookcheck the new chip shares plenty with the Ryzen AI 7 450.

Intel claims its 14A node is shedding defects faster than anything it has built since its old 22nm glory days. Intel CFO David Zinsner told Deutsche Bank’s 2026 technology conference that 14A is improving at a rate the outfit has not seen since 22nm. That comparison is loaded, since 22nm gave Chipzilla its FinFET lead with Ivy Bridge in April 2012 before the manufacturing wheels started to wobble.