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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used the company’s keynote at Nvidia GTC on Monday to introduce DLSS 5, a new version of the chipmaker’s AI graphics tech designed to make video games more realistic while using less compute power.  The new DLSS 5 system combines traditional 3D graphics data with generative AI models that can predict and fill in parts of an image, allowing Nvidia’s GPUs to produce detailed scenes and lifelike characters without rendering every element from scratch.  “We fused controllable 3D graphics, the ground truth of virtual worlds, the structured data … with generative AI, probabilistic computing,” Huang said during…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a semi-intensive care unit after his medical condition improved in the last 24 hours, his wife said Monday.Michelle Bolsonaro said on Instagram that tests showed the 70-year-old right-wing politician had reduced inflammation since he was placed in the Brasilia hospital’s intensive care unit on Friday for pneumonia.“We remain confident he will overcome this moment too,” Michelle Bolsonaro said.The hospital DF Star said on Sunday that Bolsonaro ’s kidney function had improved, although he was to stay in intensive care because of pneumonia. The hospital did not mention his…

Costco is recalling a meatloaf and potato meal kit in nearly 30 states because it may be contaminated with salmonella, the retailer said in a notice to customers.The product, called Meatloaf with Mashed Yukon Potatoes and Glaze, has sell-by dates of March 5 to March 16 and was sold at Costco locations in 26 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.Costco said customers who bought the product should not consume it and can return it to a Costco location for a refund.The announcement came after one of its ingredient suppliers, Griffith Foods, recalled one of the ingredients used in the meatloaf…

All it took was a piece of fermented swordfish the size of a quarter to land an Arizona woman in the hospital with a rare disease that left her paralyzed and gasping for breath.Trinity Peterson-Mayes, 24, said in a telephone interview from her bed at a Phoenix rehab center that she’s on the mend after her bout with botulism and expects to be discharged as early as Wednesday.”Obviously I can talk again,” she said with a chuckle. “And I can walk again. But I get tired very fast. I still can’t believe how fast, and how sick, I got from…

Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP Ventures, at $1.64 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. Frore has now raised $340 million total, the company said. Frore doesn’t make the chips themselves; it makes liquid cooling systems for them. Founded by two former Qualcomm engineers, the company’s tech was initially created to offer air-cooling tech for phones and other small fanless electronics. The company’s focus on chips was inspired by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who received a demo of the technology about two years ago, Bloomberg reported. Huang suggested they develop…

In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more significant: the loan origination system (LOS), which is the backbone of the lending industry. Frustrated by the limitations of legacy software, Klaric (pictured left), a Bolivian native, and Escapa (pictured righ), a Spanish immigrant, pivoted their business to build Fuse, an AI-native LOS. On Monday, Fuse announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A led by Footwork, Primary Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, and Commerce Ventures. An LOS serves as the primary system…

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed “massive copyright infringement.” Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster, retains the copyright to nearly 100,000 online articles, which have been scraped and used to train OpenAI’s LLMs without permission, the publisher alleges in the lawsuit. Britannica also accuses OpenAI of violating copyright laws when it generates outputs that contain “full or partial verbatim reproductions” of its content and when the AI lab uses its articles in ChatGPT’s RAG (retrieval augmented generation) workflow. OpenAI’s RAG tool is how the LLM scans the web…

A raw cheese producer has declined to issue a recall of two of its products after the Food and Drug Administration linked the cheeses to a multistate outbreak of a dangerous strain of E. coli.The FDA said Sunday that Raw Farm’s raw cheddar cheese has been linked to seven cases of E. coli O157:H7 infections, a strain of the bacteria that can cause serious kidney problems and lead to hospitalization or death.Four of the seven cases are in children ages 3 or younger. Two patients have been hospitalized; no cases of kidney failure or deaths have been reported.The cases span…

Could more Meta layoffs mean the company still has bloat to trim — or could it signal its AI investments are actually starting to pay off?A note from a top Wall Street analyst said on Monday that any head count cutting from Meta could actually be a sign that it’s successfully rebuilding itself as an “AI-forward” company.That could be bad for its rivals.While Meta’s deep investment in AI has so far not produced leading models like Google’s and OpenAI’s, Bernstein’s Mark Shmulik said Meta’s aggressive push to overhaul itself into a top-to-bottom AI company could put it ahead of competitors…

Days after the Meta acquisition, Moltbook is already making changes. Loading audio narration… The Reddit-style social network for AI agents updated its terms of service on Sunday. Before Meta swooped in, the site had five rules. Now, it has a terms page full of legal language and agreements — including that every user is personally responsible for their agent.”AI agents are not granted any legal eligibility with use of our services,” the new terms read. “As a result, you agree that you are solely responsible for your AI agents and any actions or omissions of your AI agents.”The change was…