What happens when AI detectors fail? Researchers say we must be trained to spot fake AI faces

AI detectors are struggling against increasingly realistic deepfakes. Researchers say people can dramatically improve their ability to identify fake AI faces through structured training and pattern recognition.

Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.

AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs
AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing…

France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says
France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says

France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence …

Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code
Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code

Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change …

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it
Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm…

Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race
Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race

Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, …

Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators
Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators

Perplexity has become one of the first big AI names to say it will build on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, the general-purpose chip Nvidia is betting can carry it beyond the accelerators that made it the world’s most valuable company. The AI search firm said i…

South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe
South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe

A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is insta…

The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway
The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway

A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits…