Samsung starts sampling 3 GB GDDR7 running at 36 Gbps
Samsung has begun sampling its fastest-ever GDDR7 memory at 36 Gbps in 24 Gb dies that translate to 3 GB per chip, and it is also mass producing 28.0 Gbps 3 GB modules reportedly aimed at a mid-cycle NVIDIA refresh.
CyberPowerPC raises prebuilt PC prices after DRAM surge tied to artificial intelligence demand
CyberPowerPC will raise prices across all SKUs on December 7, 2025, citing dramatic component cost increases including a 500% rise in RAM and a 100% rise in SSD prices. The company and industry analysts link the shortages and price pressure to demand for artificial intelligence compute.
FLUX.2 image generation models now released, optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs
Black Forest Labs, the frontier Artificial Intelligence research lab, released the FLUX.2 family of visual generative models with new multi-reference and pose control tools and direct ComfyUI support. NVIDIA collaboration brings FP8 quantizations that reduce VRAM requirements by 40% and improve performance by 40%.
Aligning VMware migration with business continuity
Business continuity planning long focused on physical disasters, but cyber incidents, particularly ransomware, are now more common and often more damaging. In a survey of more than 500 CISOs, almost three-quarters (72%) said their organization had dealt with ransomware in the previous year.
The Download: the future of AlphaFold and chatbot privacy concerns
A look at what comes next for AlphaFold after its lab-level protein predictions and Nobel recognition, and a report on how companion Artificial Intelligence chatbots are prompting privacy questions as states consider regulation.
U.S. launches Apollo-style mission to harness Artificial Intelligence and big data for scientific discovery
President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching the Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery by combining Artificial Intelligence with large federal datasets, with the Department of Energy given near-term deadlines to identify priorities and marshal computing and data resources.
WSJ top stories: Artificial Intelligence chip battle, politics and markets
A front-page roundup from The Wall Street Journal covering political drama, a simmering Artificial Intelligence chip war, major market moves and policy developments across health care, autos and trade.
Underground artificial intelligence models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’
A Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 report details a growing underground market for custom, jailbroken, and open-source artificial intelligence models that advertise hacking and dual-use penetration testing capabilities.
Into the Omniverse: how smart city Artificial Intelligence agents transform urban operations
Cities are deploying OpenUSD-enabled digital twins and the NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city Artificial Intelligence to simulate scenarios, train vision models and deploy real-time analytics. The approach aims to cut response times, reduce energy use and improve detection accuracy across urban systems.
The download: what’s next for electricity and living in the conspiracy age
Today’s newsletter highlights new findings on the future of electricity from the International Energy Agency and explores a series on how conspiracies and generative Artificial Intelligence are reshaping politics and truth.