Microsoft Cuts Off Azure OpenAI Access for Chinese Developers

Microsoft Cuts Off Azure OpenAI Access for Chinese Developers

Microsoft is preparing to stop providing its Azure OpenAI Service for individual developers in mainland China. Starting October 21, the service will no longer be available to non-enterprise customers, driven by increasing regulatory demands from the Chinese government. With this move, developers will no longer be able to use OpenAI tools in China through Azure, … Read More

Supermicro Launches NVIDIA BlueField-Powered JBOF to Optimize AI Storage

Supermicro Launches NVIDIA BlueField-Powered JBOF to Optimize AI Storage

The growth of AI is driving exponential growth in computing power and a doubling of networking speeds every few years. Less well-known is that it’s also putting new demands on storage.  Training new models typically requires high-bandwidth networked access to petabytes of data, while inference with the latest types of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) requires … Read More

GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW ‘Dragon Age’ Bundle

GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW ‘Dragon Age’ Bundle

Bundle up this fall with GeForce NOW and Dragon Age: The Veilguard with a special, limited-time promotion just for members. The highly anticipated role-playing game (RPG) leads 10 titles joining the ever-growing GeForce NOW library of over 2,000 games. A Heroic Bundle The mother of dragon bundles. Fight for Thedas’ future at Ultimate quality this … Read More

AI Sabotage: Anthropic’s New Tests Show Just How Real the Threat Is

AI Sabotage: Anthropic’s New Tests Show Just How Real the Threat Is

Anthropic has kicked off a fresh wave of AI safety evaluations, pushing its Claude models to the edge to find out just how capable they might be of sabotaging systems, code, or human decisions. The company has taken a step beyond traditional safety testing, moving into a space where AI’s ability to manipulate or disrupt … Read More

The iBUYPOWER AW4 360 AIO Cooler Review: A Good First Effort

The iBUYPOWER AW4 360 AIO Cooler Review: A Good First Effort

iBUYPOWER is a U.S.-based company known for its custom-built gaming PCs and peripherals. Established in 1999, the company offers a wide range of self-branded products, including pre-built desktop computers, laptops, and gaming accessories. These products are designed to cater to various performance needs, from casual gaming to high-end competitive gaming. iBUYPOWER is particularly recognized for … Read More

Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

In its heyday, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era produced many still-ongoing franchises, but few have endured quite as interestingly as Borderlands. Gearbox Software’s shooter-RPG series has been so definitive and so infamous for so long in ways that will never truly go away. At the same time, it’s always been itself: for better … Read More