Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

The Hot Take: Finally listening to the customers? Nah, this is to quiet them just enough to continue moving to their goals.

'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.…

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Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

The Hot Take: ARM wants a piece of that Ai cash pie for sure. I'm wondering how their licensing partners are going to take this.

The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.

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US senators want to suspend Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and its intermediaries — bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept says that Huang’s claims of no chip diversion ā€˜were contradicted by reporting available’

The Hot Take: Uh oh, Ai king looks to be in trouble.

U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.

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Wine 11 Rewrites How Linux Runs Windows Games At the Kernel Level

The Hot Take: Linux is coming for Windows Gamers for sure!

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looks…

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Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies

The Hot Take: US domestic chip manufacturing appears to be exploding. That's an insane goal, but to bad it's just for his companies.

"Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas" reports a local news station: Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called "Terafab," will be built near Tesla's campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties Tesla, SpaceX and xAI... The Terafab plant is expected to begin production in 2027. Musk "has said the semiconductor industry is…

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Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models could hasten historically lengthy processes

The Hot Take: Green New agenda doesn't fit in with Ai replacement of the plebes for sure. So they push us to Solar & Wind while they get viable power options for a bot?

Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations.

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Nvidia admits one GPU to rule them all was a fairy tale

The Hot Take: Nvidia starting to feel the heat of competition and see those $ evaporate as they try other vendors.

Nvidia is preparing to launch a new chip designed to speed up AI responses, breaking with its long-running habit of flogging the same processor for every job. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is expected to unveil a chip focused on ā€œinferenceā€, meaning running models rather than training them. According to people familiar with the plans for GTC next week, the chip is the first new product to emerge from December’s $20bn deal to hire the founders of Groq, a start-up building ā€œlanguage processing unitsā€ tuned for high-speed answers to…

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