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AMD at CES® 2026

Join AMD Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Lisa Su, for her keynote at CES 2026, the most powerful technology event in the world. Dr. Su returns to the CES stage in Las Vegas to highlight, alongside partners and customers, the AMD vision for delivering future AI solutions – from cloud to enterprise, edge and devices.

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NVIDIA Reportedly Plans to Bring Back RTX 3060 Due to DRAM Shortages

With the AI industry effectively crippling PC gaming – and, to a lesser extent, gaming overall – by driving hardware prices to some absurd levels, it appears that NVIDIA, undeniably one of, if not the biggest beneficiary of the AI boom, is looking to ease a crisis it itself has inadvertently helped create by rewinding the clock half a decade and bringing back the GeForce RTX 3,060 GPU, discontinued in August 2024.

Physicists & Philosophers debunk The Fine Tuning Argument

The Fine-Tuning Argument is often seen as the best argument for the existence of God. Here we have assembled some of the world’s top physicists and philosophers to offer a reply. Not every critic of the argument comes from the same perspective. Some doubt there is a problem to be solved whilst others agree it is a genuine problem but think there are better solutions than the God hypothesis. Some like the multiverse and anthropics other don’t. We have tried to represent these different approaches and so it should be taken as given, that not all of the talking heads agree with each other. Nevertheless, they all share the view that the fine-tuning argument for God does not work. Nor are all the objectors atheist, Hans Halvorson offers what we think is a strong theological objection to the argument. This film does not try to argue that God doesn’t exist only that the fine-tuning argument is not a good reason to believe in God. Most of the footage was filmed exclusively for this film with some clips being re-used from our Before the Big Bang series, which can be viewed here: • Before the Big Bang 5: The No Boundary Pro… All of the critics of the fine tuning argument that appear were sent a draft of the film more than a month before release and asked for any objections either to their appearance, the narration or any other aspect of the film. No objections were raised, and many replies were extremely positive and encouraging. A timeline of the subjects covered is below:
(We define God as a perfect Omni immaterial mind as for example modern Christians and Muslims advocate, there are other conceptions of God which our video does not address).
Just to be clear, this is a polemical film arguing against the fine tuning argument.

Timecodes.

0:00 Introduction.
4:11 The universe as a roll of the dice.
6:15 what is probability?
7:28 probability problems.
9:25 measure problem.
15:45 deceptive probabilities.
20:23 the flatness problem.
22:14 counterfactuals versus probabilities.
23:59 fine tuning versus God.
37:02 necessity.
38:53 multiverse and anthropics.
47:34 Boltzmann brains.
49:45 Entropy.
52:45 Cosmological Natural Selection.
59:10 conclusion.

Chess960’s random setups still favor white, new study reveals

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the “best” opening moves, which can sometimes result in boring, predictable games. To encourage more creative play and move away from pure memory, former world champion Bobby Fischer proposed Chess960 in the 1990s.

This variant of the game is so called because there are exactly 960 starting positions. It randomizes where the pieces at the back of the board (such as the knights, bishops and the queen) are placed at the start while keeping the rest of the rules the same. Although it was thought that this would make starting the game equally fair and complex for both players, new research suggests otherwise.

NitroGen: A Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents

We introduce NitroGen, a vision-action foundation model for generalist gaming agents that is trained on 40,000 hours of gameplay videos across more than 1,000 games. We incorporate three key ingredients: 1) an internet-scale video-action dataset constructed by automatically extracting player actions from publicly available gameplay videos, 2) a multi-game benchmark environment that can measure cross-game generalization, and 3) a unified vision-action policy trained with large-scale behavior cloning. NitroGen exhibits strong competence across diverse domains, including combat encounters in 3D action games, high-precision control in 2D platformers, and exploration in procedurally generated worlds. It transfers effectively to unseen games, achieving up to 52% relative improvement in task success rates over models trained from scratch.

Highly insulating polymer film that shields satellites to boost flexible electronics’ performance

Researchers have found that they could use highly insulating aluminum-coated polymer film to improve the performance of flexible electronics and medical sensors.

Currently, the aluminum-coated polymer film is used to shield satellites from temperature extremes.

Researchers at Empa have succeeded in making the material even more resistant by implementing an ultra-thin intermediate layer.

Genie 3: Creating dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real-time

Genie 3 is a world builder powered by generative AI. It appears that it could in principle be built into a game engine.

One thing I’d like to do is have procedural generation as the backbone, and have generative AI modify things further that regular proc-gen textures just are not able to accomplish.

Introducing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p.

Watch the Google DeepMind episode on Genie 3 with Hannah Fry here: • Genie 3: An infinite world model | Shlomi…

Our team has been pioneering research in simulated environments for over a decade, from training agents to master real-time strategy games to developing simulated environments for open-ended learning and robotics. This work motivated our development of world models, which are AI systems that can use their understanding of the world to simulate aspects of it, enabling agents to predict both how an environment will evolve and how their actions will affect it.

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