Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco

Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.

Nvidia is pushing hyper-realism in games, but researchers say the real human benefits come in VR

While chipmakers like Nvidia keep pushing hyper-real graphics in games, new research argues that the more meaningful human upside may lie in VR environments.

Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips

The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive’s chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.

SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 2026, at a valuation of $3.65 billion. The round was led…

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 update with 6x frame generation lands on RTX graphics today

Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 update is now live, bringing Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and a new 6x mode that can generate up to five extra frames per rendered frame on RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 update with new frame generation features
Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 update with new frame generation features

Nvidia has launched the next major update for its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature, introducing AI-powered frame generation modes for supported GeForce RTX graphics cards. These DLSS 4.5 upgrades are included in the new Nvidia app beta update starting today, allowing players to improve performance and image quality across more than 20 gaming titles. […]

Mistral AI raises $830M in debt to set up a data center near Paris

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are part of Trump’s new ‘tech panel’
Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are part of Trump’s new ‘tech panel’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin will be the first four members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to the Wall Street Journal. The panel, which will “weigh in on AI policy,” will include 13 […]

Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI data centers later this year
Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI data centers later this year

After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it’s producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it’s another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can continue to spawn more […]