ASUS stops making some NVIDIA GPUs resulting from reminiscence provide crunch

In case you thought we had 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 as a result of 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 intently 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 may have greater 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.

— Mat Smith

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Within the struggle in opposition to AI.

Matthew McConaughey filed trademark functions to forestall AI corporations from utilizing his likeness with out permission, and the US Patent and Trademark Workplace has accepted eight up to now.

Emblems had 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. Below the legislation, it’s already prohibited for corporations to steal somebody’s likeness to promote merchandise. Nonetheless, given the obscure guidelines governing using 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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Habit! Radiation poisoning! Skeletal legislation enforcement?

The second season of Amazon’s wonderful Fallout present is presently streaming, however the firm is already seeking to generate extra income from its license to the well-regarded recreation sequence. Prime Video has greenlit an unscripted actuality present titled Fallout Shelter. It will likely be a 10-episode run with Studio Lambert, the staff behind actuality initiatives together with Squid Sport: The Problem and The Traitors.

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However picture technology isn’t going anyplace.

Following quite a few complaints and a number of 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 pictures of actual individuals in… effectively, 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 pictures generated by xAI between Christmas and New 12 months depicted individuals in minimal clothes.” That’s been the first use?

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