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In his review, Tom Warren calls the first RTX 40-series Super card from Nvidia “one that I would seriously consider for a 1440p PC build,” and if you’ve been waiting for a PC gaming upgrade that won’t destroy your budget, this might be the one.

Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you train your own local chatbot with your own files for free, no cloud required. Seconds after I fed it the Epic v. Google legal complaint PDF, I got decent answers to questions like “What does Epic Games want” and “Which laws does Epic allege Google violated?”

Monday was quite the whirlwind! Let’s take a step back and recap all of the fun surprises:

Nvidia only just announced its new RTX 40-series Super GPUs today at CES, but we’ve already got our hands on one. The RTX 4070 Super launches on January 17th at the same $599 price point as the original, but there are more CUDA cores to power 1440p gaming. It looks very similar to the RTX 4070, but Nvidia has picked a slightly darker shade of alloy frame.

RTX Remix, which lets modders update older games with visual upgrades like ray tracing and Nvidia’s DLSS, launches on January 22nd in open beta. It made Portal look incredible, and it’s being used to build a community-developed remaster of Half-Life 2.

Nvidia, Twitch, and OBS are teaming up on the new enhanced broadcasting feature that will be available in beta later this month. It allows streamers to transmit up to three concurrent streams to Twitch at different resolutions and quality. This allows non-partner / affiliate streamers to broadcast at multiple resolutions and quality levels. Twitch is also experimenting with 4K and AV1 streaming on RTX 40-series GPUs.

We’re expecting to see some new RTX 40-series Super cards today, if leaks and Nvidia’s own teasers are anything to go by. Nvidia is holding a “special address” keynote at CES 2024, starting at 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM GMT today. You can watch the whole show below, and stayed tuned to The Verge for all the latest Nvidia news.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati are all on the list to meet with European Commission executive vice president Margrethe Vestager, according to a report from Reuters. We’ll be on the lookout for what (if anything) comes out of the meetings.

Nvidia is heading to CES next week to announce some new 40-series GPUs. A new teaser makes it clearer than the various leaks that Nvidia has some GeForce announcements to make. We’re expecting to hear about a new RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Super Ti, and even an RTX 4080 Super. All the cards have been heavily leaked in recent weeks, so all that’s really left is to make them official on Monday January 8th.

Rumors about the newest additions to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40-series lineup have been swirling for weeks, but now we may have possible launch dates, according to information obtained by ITHome:

Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service now has both Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5. These are the latest Microsoft-owned additions to the service, alongside Minecraft Dungeons. It’s all part of the ongoing rollout of Xbox PC games on GeForce Now, following a 10-year deal between Nvidia and Microsoft. GeForce Now also got PC Game Pass support last month.

Nvidia hit a milestone of 500 games and apps using its RTX technologies like DLSS and ray tracing last week, and it’s continuing to celebrate with more games running DLSS. A new driver (546.33) is being released today and includes game ready support for The Finals, a destructive first-person shooter that shipped last week with ray tracing, DLSS 3 and Nvidia’s Reflex tech. This new driver also includes some important fixes for intermittent stutter when v-sync is enabled.

There was a big shock earlier this year about Huawei’s development, but Nvidia’s CEO doesn’t see it as a huge deal.

says Nvidia’s CEO at the DealBook 2023 event. “We should try it, we should endeavor it ... but total independence of supply chain is not a real thing for a decade or two,” Jensen Huang says.

Jensen Huang is on stage at DealBook, talking about how soon we might see artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But without a clear definition, it’s a hard question to answer.

The company’s Q3 2024 earnings reveal $18.12 billion in revenue for the quarter, with $14.51 billion from its data center business as the world’s AI companies jockey for Nvidia’s chips. That overall revenue number is a 206 percent jump from last year and marks a continuing growth trend for the company.

Bethesda has released the 1.8.86 update for Starfield, and for PC gamers with recent Nvidia graphics cards, it should be an important one since it adds support for their cards’ AI-powered upscaling.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has just taken the stage at Microsoft’s Ignite event to talk about how the company is partnering with Microsoft on a variety of AI projects. “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history,” says Huang. “In the last 40 years, nothing has been this big. It’s bigger than PC, it’s bigger than mobile, and it’s gonna be bigger than the internet, by far.” Nvidia made $6 billion in pure profit earlier this year thanks to the AI boom.

If you updated to the latest Nvidia driver for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III earlier this week, you might have noticed transparency issues in Windows 10. Nvidia has now issued a hotfix driver to fix the problems and address stability issues in Alan Wake 2 and even a Blue Screen of Death crash. You can grab the new 546.08 driver over at Nvidia’s hotfix site, or simply wait on the next Game Ready driver release that will include these fixes.

The H100 GPUs have become a hot commodity with the AI boom, so I’m guessing this AWS new service will be pretty popular.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III campaign early access starts on November 2nd, and Nvidia is ready with its latest driver update. There’s DLSS 3, DLAA, and Reflex support included for MW3, alongside Nvidia Omniverse getting DLSS 3.5 support with Ray Reconstruction. You can download the latest Nvidia GPU driver right here.

Previously exclusive to Nvidia’s RTX 30 and RTX 40 series cards, the company’s RTX Video Super Resolution technique for Chrome, Edge and VLC is now adding RTX 20 cards, too.

The DLSS 3.0 technique arrives today to dramatically increase perceived framerate by imagining lots of new frames, and the the speedy Naraka’s a good candidate — particularly since it already has Nvidia Reflex to soften the blow to latency. It’s part of a new GeForce driver today. AMD’s got similar tech, but also some catching up to do.