He’s expected to show a new high-end AI chip dubbed the B100, Reuters reported last week; apparently the new server-grade Blackwell GPUs can consume 1,000 watts each. Nvidia’s GTC keynote kicks off at 1PM PT / 4PM ET — just 15 minutes after I first published the words you’re reading.
What if Steam Deck, but not just Steam and not just Deck?
When Warner Bros. announced it would be capriciously removing Adult Swim games from Steam, my heart went out to Duck Game developer Landon Podbielski, whose zany quackfest helps keep my circle of friends playing together year after year.
So I’m very pleased to report that Podbielski not only owns the rights to the Duck Game IP, he’s promising to keep it going: “I will never stop updating it as long as my hands and eyes work,” he writes. Full blog:
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Nintendo sued Yuzu into the ground. What happened next?
If you guessed Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, you’re right — and he said it to Valve’s face, later telling Gabe Newell he was among the “assholes telling the world that the strong and powerful get special terms, while 30% is for the little people.”
It’s from a cache of mostly redacted exhibits in a potential class-action lawsuit against Valve. Simon Carless dug them up, read more:
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I can’t get enough of ad agency creative Dustin Ballard’s AI hijinks: he made The Red Hot Chili Peppers sing a grocery list, turned Lil Jon’s “Get Low” into a time-honored Christmas classic, and showed up a congressional hearing on AI. That’s just a taste.
Recently, he revealed the process — it starts with his own voice!
Every desktop GPU should ship with four of these unholy things.
(Backstory: In 2013, Valve disavowed its involvement in the Xi3 Piston, a small gaming PC that was supposedly going to be a Steam Machine but shipped with Windows 7 instead. From the beginning, it had “DP/HDMI” stamped on its I/O shield — how did we miss it?!?)
