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OpenAI Is Pulling Its Models Out of Cursor, and Musk Is the Reason It Gives
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
If you open Cursor every morning with an OpenAI model selected in the picker, you have until November 12 to choose something else. OpenAI is winding down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor, and the reason has nothing to do with Cursor's code or its bill.
OpenAI laid it out in its own post on August 28: "Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026." Cursor now belongs to SpaceX, which also owns xAI. Both answer to Elon Musk, and OpenAI would rather not hand him the keys.
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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Ships September 3, and It Changes What the Artists Drew
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop, Video Games, Artificial Intelligence,
Every version of DLSS so far has been a clever way to draw the picture developers already designed. Render fewer pixels, let the AI fill in the rest, get your frame rate back. DLSS 5 is different. It reaches into the finished frame and adds detail that nobody at the studio put there.
It ships September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, it runs only on RTX 50-series cards, and Nvidia calls it 3D-guided neural rendering. The pitch is that it puts back what real-time budgets force studios to cut: light scattering under skin, light passing through hair and foliage, contact shadows, ambient occlusion. The reception so far has been rough. Early demos built on Resident Evil: Requiem and Starfield drew a pile of complaints about faces that landed square in the uncanny valley, and a leaked build that modders bolted onto older games made the criticism louder.
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Sonos Bets on the Beam Ultra, Ace Ultra, and Sonos27 App Update It Can’t Afford to Botch
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video, Artificial Intelligence,
Sonos showed up at IFA today with a $699 soundbar, a pair of $449 headphones, and a new version of the app that did the company real damage two years ago. The app is the one that will decide how this year goes.
The hardware is easy to like. The Beam Ultra is a mid-size soundbar with nine drivers, and for the first time in a Beam, two of them fire upward. That is the difference between Dolby Atmos your soundbar fakes with processing and Atmos with sound actually bouncing off your ceiling. Sonos is calling the result true 7.1.2. Pre-orders open today, and it ships September 29.
Rockstar Says GTA 6 Has No Microtransactions and No AI. Now Ask About GTA Online.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Editorial, Video Games, Artificial Intelligence,
Ask a game executive about monetization and you normally get a paragraph with an escape hatch built into it. Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson gave reporters two short answers instead: there is no monetization in Grand Theft Auto 6, and no generative AI in it either.
That comes from Kinda Funny's Andy Cortez and Greg Miller, who each put the question to Nelson during press visits to the studio and reported the answers on the Kinda Funny Gamecast. Cortez asked whether you can use real-world money to buy things in the game and got "no monetization." Miller says he asked point blank whether AI is in the game and got "no AI." A New York Times feature on GTA VI published August 27 lands in the same place, and reports that Rockstar emphasized the game's human-made craft.
Apple Says an Ex-Engineer Took Circuit Schematics to OpenAI, Then Tried to Erase the Trail
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple's trade secrets fight with OpenAI now has a name attached to it. In an amended complaint filed August 31, Apple accuses Chang Liu, a former senior system electrical engineer who left for OpenAI, of downloading dozens of confidential Apple files after he'd already started the new job. Circuit schematics among them, Apple says.
Then it gets worse for Liu, at least in Apple's telling. Apple claims that once he found out about the internal investigation, he directed an OpenAI coworker to "restore" Apple-issued devices, which Apple reads as an attempt to destroy forensic evidence. All of this is an allegation in an active lawsuit. Nothing has been proven, and OpenAI denies it.
Meta’s Screenless Ray-Bans Now Do Turn-by-Turn Walking Directions
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,
You know the corner. Unfamiliar city, phone in your hand, thumb hovering over a map, and you still walk half a block the wrong way before the blue arrow catches up with you. Meta's smart glasses have been sitting on your face this whole time doing nothing about it. Firmware v128 changes that, and it does it on the pair without a screen.
The update adds turn-by-turn walking directions you launch with your voice. Say "Hey Meta, navigate to Times Square" and the turns come through the open-ear speakers. Until now you couldn't start navigation from the glasses at all. You started a route in a third-party app on your phone and let the audio ride over Bluetooth, or you asked Siri or Google Assistant to do it for you. Both work. Neither keeps the phone in your pocket, which is most of the reason to wear the things.
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Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck Ships With Its Training Code on GitHub
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Mods / Hacks, Toys, Artificial Intelligence,
Most robot news arrives as a video. A humanoid folds laundry in a lab you'll never visit, running software you'll never see, and six months later nobody can buy it. Microduck showed up on Thursday as a pre-order page and two GitHub repos.
It's a 25cm bipedal robot duck, it costs $399, and it comes from Pollen Robotics, the French startup Hugging Face bought last year. It walks, sits, crouches, kicks, grabs things with an articulated beak, roller skates, and gets back up after most falls. Seven behaviors ship trained. Every one of them was learned in simulation, and every one of them is yours to retrain.
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The US Is Reportedly Drafting a Rule to Stop China Renting the AI Chips It Can’t Buy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
American export controls on AI chips have always had a hole in them shaped like the cloud. You cannot ship an Nvidia Blackwell server to Beijing. You can, apparently, sit in Beijing and rent time on one that is racked in Bangkok. A new report says the Trump administration is finally writing a rule about that.
The Information reported this week that the Commerce Department is working on export controls aimed at Chinese companies' remote access to advanced AI compute in countries that do not have matching restrictions, with Thailand and Singapore named as the obvious examples. Per that reporting, Commerce could circulate the draft to industry trade groups for feedback as early as September. Every word of that is in the conditional. What exists is a draft described by sources. No rule has been proposed, published, or enforced, and the administration has not announced one.
Anthropic said no to the Pentagon. A judge just ruled the punishment illegal.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
Turning down government work is not supposed to get you branded a national security threat. A federal judge in San Francisco spent 59 pages explaining that the Pentagon did exactly that to Anthropic, and that it broke the law doing it.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, ruling on cross-motions for summary judgment in the Northern District of California, vacated the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and blocked the government from enforcing the directives built on top of it. "The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Lin wrote.
Cerebras Built a Chip the Size of a Dinner Plate Because Memory Is the Wall
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech, Artificial Intelligence,
Most AI chips spend a lot of their time waiting. The math units sit idle while the memory system hauls in the next slab of model weights, and that waiting is a big part of why a chatbot pauses before it answers you. Cerebras's answer has been to skip the step where a wafer gets cut into individual chips and ship the entire wafer as one processor.
That wafer is close to the size of a dinner plate: 46,225 square millimeters, a bit under 8.5 inches on a side, carrying four trillion transistors and 900,000 cores. Cerebras announced the CS-4 in mid-August, a rack holding three of them, with first shipments beginning this quarter. At Hot Chips this week the company walked through how the rack is built and where the wafer goes next.