February 1, 2025
Hardware

GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 was pretty much a paper launch, biggest US retailers are SOLD OUT

TL;DR: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards are sold out across major US retailers like Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg. Despite high prices, demand has outstripped supply, with rumors of limited availability proving true. Some options remain through purchasing pre-built gaming PCs, though at a higher cost. NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards are pretty much sold out US-wide, with the biggest retailers in the US

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Anthony Garreffa February 1, 2025
AR/VR

Games for Change festival runs in NYC on June 26 to June 27

The 22nd annual Games for Change Festival will take place June 26 and June 27 in New York under the theme “Designing for Tomorrow.” The event will take place at the Parsons School of Design in New York City and the group put out a call this week for speakers and awards through February 5. For over two decades, the G4C Festival has been the premier global event for bringing together game developers, creators, educators,

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Dean Takahashi February 1, 2025
Hardware

NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 60 rumors begin: Rubin GPU, more VRAM, DLSS 5, TSMC 3nm node

TL;DR: NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 60 series “Rubin” GPUs are anticipated to feature a new architecture with a 10%+ boost in rasterization and 20%+ in ray tracing performance. Expectations include DLSS 5 with 2x performance over DLSS 4, TSMC’s 3nm process, more VRAM, and enhanced AI frame generation. NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 60 series “Rubin” GPUs are now officially in the headlines, with leakers creating a wishlist of things they’d like to see from the

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Anthony Garreffa February 1, 2025
Hardware

Samsung expects next-gen HBM4 mass production in 2H 2025, ‘optimized version’ of HBM3E coming

TL;DR: Samsung Electronics reported Q4 2024 earnings with $54.18 billion in revenue and $4.65 billion in operating profit. The company began supplying 8-Hi and 12-Hi HBM3E memory, surpassing HBM3 revenue. An “optimized version” of HBM3E is expected in Q1 2025, potentially affecting demand and prices. Samsung plans to start mass production of HBM4 in 2H 2025 and aims to enhance its Samsung Electronics has posted its Q4 2024 earnings, pulling in $54.18 billion in revenue,

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Anthony Garreffa February 1, 2025

Clever architecture over raw compute: DeepSeek shatters the ‘bigger is better’ approach to AI development

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI narrative has reached a critical inflection point. The DeepSeek breakthrough — achieving state-of-the-art performance without relying on the most advanced chips — proves what many at NeurIPS in December had already declared: AI’s future isn’t about throwing more compute at problems — it’s about reimagining how these systems work with humans and our environment.

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Kiara Nirghin, Chima February 1, 2025
Hardware

AMD’s new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 9900X3D processors expected to launch by the end of March

TL;DR: AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors are expected to launch by the end of March 2025, alongside RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards. The 9950X3D will have 16 cores, 32 threads, and 144MB cache, while the 9900X3D will have 12 cores, 24 threads, and 140MB cache. AMD’s new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D processors are rumored to drop by the end of March 2025, after

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Anthony Garreffa February 1, 2025
Hardware

GALAX unveils monster custom GeForce RTX 5080 HOF OC Lab Edition graphics card

TL;DR: GALAX has introduced the GeForce RTX 5080 HOF OC Lab Plus-X Edition graphics card, featuring a white 12-layer PCB, 14+6+6 phase power design, and a triple-fan cooling system. It includes factory overclocking up to 2730MHz and a dual BIOS setting. Official details on TDP and availability are pending. GALAX has launched its flagship GeForce RTX 5080 HOF OC Lab Plus-X Edition graphics card, with a gorgeous white PCB, but not in RTX 5090 form

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Anthony Garreffa February 1, 2025
Robotics

UC Berkeley’s AI-powered robot learns Jenga whipping

[embedded content] At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip. Through what might have seemed to a casual viewer like a miracle of physics, the whip struck in precisely the right spot to send a single

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The Robot Report Staff February 1, 2025
AI

Sparse AutoEncoder: from Superposition to interpretable features

Disentangle features in complex Neural Network with superpositions Shuyang Xiang · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · Just now — Complex neural networks, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), suffer quite often from interpretability challenges. One of the most important reasons for such difficulty is superposition — a phenomenon of the neural network having fewer dimensions than the number of features it has to represent. For example, a toy LLM

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Shuyang Xiang February 1, 2025

Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025 | TechCrunch

Tech is upbeat about more companies going public this year, thanks in part to a new presidential administration that has promised to ease regulations and embrace industries like crypto and AI.  But there were already early signs of bullishness — especially in fintech — thanks to the wildly successful 2024 IPO of ServiceTitan, a SaaS platform for the trades. TechCrunch has compiled a chronological list of companies that have either announced that they plan to

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Charles Rollet February 1, 2025

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