ASUS stops making some NVIDIA GPUs attributable to reminiscence provide crunch

Should you thought we have been , the starvation for reminiscence and GPUs is making many firms 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 dearer to fabricate within the present local weather.

“Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is powerful, 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 informed Engadget.

At CES 2026, we noticed PCs and computing within the subsequent 12 months can have greater costs and extra restricted availability for shoppers. On the finish of 2025, RAM costs skyrocketed, pushed by demand from AI knowledge facilities. That’s not stopping anytime quickly.

— Mat Smith

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Within the struggle towards AI.

Matthew McConaughey filed trademark purposes to forestall AI firms from utilizing his likeness with out permission, and the US Patent and Trademark Workplace has accepted 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. Underneath the regulation, it’s already prohibited for firms to steal somebody’s likeness to promote merchandise. Nonetheless, given the obscure 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 e-newsletter. Está bien, está bien, está bien.

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Dependancy! Radiation poisoning! Skeletal regulation enforcement?

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

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However picture era 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’ skill to generate photos of actual individuals in… nicely, much less clothes, in areas the place it’s unlawful.

California Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta cited one evaluation that discovered “greater than half of the 20,000 photos generated by xAI between Christmas and New Yr depicted individuals in minimal clothes.” That’s been the first use?

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