The Morning After: ASUS stops making some NVIDIA GPUs as a consequence of reminiscence provide crunch
For those who thought we have been , the starvation for reminiscence and GPUs is making many corporations reassess their priorities. YouTube channel {Hardware} Unboxed found ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB because of the ongoing reminiscence crunch. Each GPUs are 16GB fashions, making them costlier to fabricate within the present local weather.
“Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is robust, and reminiscence provide is constrained. We proceed to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working carefully with our suppliers to maximise reminiscence availability,” an NVIDIA spokesperson advised Engadget.
At CES 2026, we noticed PCs and computing within the subsequent 12 months can have increased costs and extra restricted availability for shoppers. On the finish of 2025, RAM costs skyrocketed, pushed by demand from AI information facilities. That’s not stopping anytime quickly.
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Within the battle in opposition to AI.
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Matthew McConaughey filed trademark purposes to stop AI corporations from utilizing his likeness with out permission, and the US Patent and Trademark Workplace has permitted eight to this point.
Emblems have been for video and audio clips that includes the actor staring, smiling and speaking. One was for an audio recording of him saying “alright, alright, alright,” his catchphrase from the film Dazed and Confused. Beneath the regulation, it’s already prohibited for corporations to steal somebody’s likeness to promote merchandise. Nonetheless, given the imprecise guidelines governing the usage of somebody’s likeness, McConaughey is taking a proactive method. McConaughey himself is an investor in ElevenLabs and has partnered with the AI startup to create a Spanish model of his publication. Está bien, está bien, está bien.
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The second season of Amazon’s wonderful Fallout present is at present streaming, however the firm is already trying to generate extra income from its license to the well-regarded sport collection. Prime Video has greenlit an unscripted actuality present titled Fallout Shelter. Will probably be a 10-episode run with Studio Lambert, the group behind actuality tasks together with Squid Recreation: The Problem and The Traitors.
However picture technology isn’t going wherever.
Following quite a few complaints and several other state and nationwide investigations, X is revising its insurance policies on Grok’s image-editing capabilities. New safeguards will place Grok’s image-generating options behind X’s subscription providing, and it’ll geoblock all customers’ means to generate photographs of actual folks in… nicely, much less clothes, in areas the place it’s unlawful.
California Lawyer Basic Rob Bonta cited one evaluation that discovered “greater than half of the 20,000 photographs generated by xAI between Christmas and New 12 months depicted folks in minimal clothes.” That’s been the first use?