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AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’

Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 ‘Venice’ CPUs, as well.

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'When will the EA greed end': Fans vent their fury as company announces $150 version of FC 27 — annual game release comes in three editions, but top-tier option is 50% more expensive than GTA VI Ultimate

EA's FC 27 is available in three options, starting at $69.99 for the base game and going up to $149.99 for the Ultimate Plus Edition. The top-tier option, which costs more than double than the Standard Edition, caused sticker shock for everyone and caught the ire of gamers.

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OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days

OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.

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President Trump expands AI data center ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to include state governors and utility companies — White House claims this will make electricity more affordable

U.S. President Donald Trump expands the 'ratepayer protection pledge' to include states, utility companies, and data center developers. He claims that the pledge will help electricity costs go down, even as PJM Interconnect, the largest grid operator in the U.S., increased power costs by 75.5% and slapped Maryland with a…

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AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to 'reinvent our industry' paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination

On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.

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AMD reveals CPU architecture roadmap through 2028, following Zen 6 'Venice' launch — Zen 7 'Florence' to debut in 2028 alongside diversified product family, confirms Zen 8 'Ravenna' in development

AMD's Lisa Su shows off the company's roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.

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AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake

Countering Intel’s recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.

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AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center

AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.

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AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions

When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.

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Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse

A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.

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AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over Nvidia Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+ clock speeds

After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.

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AMD’s Venice-X CPU launches in 2027 with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and 5.15 GHz boost clock – Zen 6 CPU for high-performance computing comes with major pillars of Venice

AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.

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Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support

The latest update introduces more realistic CPU and GPU workloads, redesigned multi-core testing, AI-focused benchmarks, larger datasets, and CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs.

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AI memory shortage is now increasing the price of cars — GM warns of vast cost increases, BYD hikes driver assistance prices 20%

GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company's costs are expected to increase by $1.5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The move comes as the RAM shortage is affecting the automotive industry, right as cars are requiring more memory and storage due to infotainment and…

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Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day

The bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers companies earning at least $500 million in annual revenue from a model trained with compute costing more than $100 million.

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Intel and AMD sign long-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices jump over 40%, report claims — agreements purportedly guarantee purchase volumes for about a year without fixing prices

Some customers have discussed commitments running two years or longer, one source told Reuters.

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142 AI data center protests staged in 42 states as public opposition increases — organizers brand 'unaccountable' buildouts as an 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty'

Data center projects are facing increasing opposition from surrounding communities, making consent even far scarcer than the chips and power needed to run these facilities. Any developer planning to construct one must now consider the people living around the proposed site and take account for the months or years needed…

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Oregon will start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor — millions accrued over years will go toward state schools

Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.

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Grand Theft Auto Multiverse with real-time portals created by ambitious modder — San Andreas, Vice City and GTA III all run simultaneously, with cross-game interactions

A modder by the name of Dryxio has built perhaps the most impressive mod in the history of Grand Theft Auto by combining three different GTA games into one, connected through real-time, fully functional portals.

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Framework nearly doubles memory pricing for 32GB, 64GB Laptop 13 Pro overnight — CEO says absorbing LPCAMM2 supplier hikes would put 'our ability to operate at real financial risk'

The company is making adjustments to some existing pre-orders.

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Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.

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Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds

Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC will let gamers play classic Xbox games on PC and handheld.

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AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs

The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems.

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Data centers forecast to use 20% of US power by 2035 — analysts estimate usage will rocket to 194 gigawatts, 83% more than forecast seven months ago

BNEF's December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025.

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Apple reportedly working on Mac leasing program in partnership with Klarna to fight RAM price increases — 'Apple Upgrade' would let users finance hardware over 36 months, budget models excluded

A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade…

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