Feed Tom's Hardware: Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI's dots run on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs (tomshardware.com)
Post-launch Geekbench 7 runs show Debian Linux instead of the leak's Ubuntu.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Top AI tech executives promise to ‘self-police’ AI development (tomshardware.com)
The heads of the biggest AI labs — Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia — went to Washington and signed the 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,' promising to develop their own models safely. Trump says that it's the best way to move forward with AI as it balances progress with safety.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Marvel's Wolverine reaches gameplay with KytyPS5 emulator (tomshardware.com)
An experimental PS5 emulator has been shown running the brand-new Marvel's Wolverine game on a PC, with gameplay working for the first time.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Xbox Disc to Digital feature rolls out to all Xbox players to enable playing disc-free, but selling your media revokes access (tomshardware.com)
Xbox gamers can now get a digital license tied to their physical game discs associated with their Xbox profile for select titles, allowing them to play the game without needing to insert it into the console.
Feed Tom's Hardware: New PS5 Relapse jailbreak enables homebrew and Switch emulation but is hamstrung by rapidly-changing firmware revisions (tomshardware.com)
A new jailbreak supports firmware 7.00 through 13.60, including on the PS5 Pro. But some game updates may already require a newer firmware, breaking the jailbreak.
Feed Tom's Hardware: TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market (tomshardware.com)
TP-Link's first Wi-Fi 8 product, the Archer 8 Ultra, is off limits in the U.S.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Meta's Muse AI agent accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data (tomshardware.com)
Meta's Muse AI agent has been accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data on an iPhone and Mac, including iMessages.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval (tomshardware.com)
Florida asked a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval and to keep minors off ChatGPT.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence (tomshardware.com)
President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to stop using the term 'artificial intelligence' and instead call it 'Super Intelligence.' The president said that the new term will solve AI's branding issue and that it 'more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.'
Feed Tom's Hardware: The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (tomshardware.com)
On this day in 1980, version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification was published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel, and Xerox.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Developer trains a small AI on a single RTX 3080 Ti gaming GPU to 'play' Pokémon Red (tomshardware.com)
A developer trained a JEPA world model, based on LeWorldModel research co-authored by Yann LeCun, on an RTX 3080 Ti to play Pokémon Red.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Nuvacore reveals unconventional Core First CPU IP design strategy (tomshardware.com)
NuvaCore says it is developing its new WarpCore CPU IP without first choosing the ISA it will implement. This unusual development strategy is meant to offer the company maximum technology and business flexibility.
Feed Tom's Hardware: ‘This is how AI should be used’ — OpenAI head of hardware breaks down the AI-assisted design of its Jalapeño ASIC (tomshardware.com)
OpenAI says AI-assisted Jalapeño chip design "established a new baseline" for the industry, and there is already a lot of interest from others to learn how the company pulled it off.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel (tomshardware.com)
Hackers have breached the U.S. Department of Defense's information systems. The Pentagon says that it has already secured the source of the leak, but the records of millions of DoD personnel are now in the wild.
Feed Tom's Hardware: Former EVGA employee recounts company’s degrading relationship with Nvidia before 2022 blow-up (tomshardware.com)
In a personal blog, former EVGA product manager Brendon Ray Hedrick shared how the first Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs alarmed the company and how pricing pressure and risky forward-looking tech ultimately led to the end of the two companies' storied partnership.
