Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming

Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 uses generative AI and structured graphics data to make video games more realistic. CEO Jensen Huang says the approach could eventually spread to other industries.

Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B

At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it just raise $143 million.

Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions

The startup also announced a $5M ‘rescue fund’ to help credit unions ditch legacy software for its AI-native platform.

The dictionary sues OpenAI

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

Encyclopedia Britannica is suing OpenAI for allegedly ‘memorizing’ its content with ChatGPT
Encyclopedia Britannica is suing OpenAI for allegedly ‘memorizing’ its content with ChatGPT

On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were “substantially similar” to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, “GPT-4 itself has ‘memorized’ much […]

A Month In The Life Of AI: February 2026

February showed AI accelerating through defense conflict, layoffs, autonomous agents, and search automation reshaping society.

The Most Important Idea In AI: Recursive Self Improvement (RSI).

Recursive self improvement will create competitors with lights out processes and amazing economics.

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage

Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer […]

Gilbane’s Alex Gutman On Tech, Data And The Future Of Construction

Alex Gutman, CTO of Gilbane, discusses how data, AI and digital platforms are transforming construction while helping the 150 year old builder deliver better outcomes.

This is not a fly uploaded to a computer
This is not a fly uploaded to a computer

Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual “embodied fly” tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn’t seem to understand what it was they were excited about. The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which says it’s working toward “digital human intelligence” and claims it wants to […]