Truncated: latest AI news

Sunday 1 November

Modders create automated tool to unlock AI performance on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40 series GPUs

AI-generated summary Physicsdolphin has released an open-source UEFI-based tool that automatically combines earlier NVIDIA Tensor Core unlocks into a single utility for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40 series graphics cards. The utility applies firmware-level register changes before the graphics driver loads to remove restrictions on certain Tensor Core instruction rates.

Also covered by Tom's Hardware

Saturday 31 October

AI boom hits a wall on Wall Street as OpenAI cuts fundraising target while Meta gets a credit warning over its cash flow, spending and monetization

Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., speaks during OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026.

AI-generated summary S&P Global made available a credit warning that cut its outlook on Meta to negative from stable over its cash flow, spending, and monetization. The credit ratings agency maintained Meta at AA- while warning the social media leader's leverage could top 1.0x as soon as 2027.

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Medicare used AI to pre-approve patient care, and it immediately led to a large drop in medical services

AI-generated summary A new Medicare pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to pre-approve patient care has launched in several states including New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Washington state. The study found that the program immediately led to a significant drop in medical services provided to the approximately 6.4 million enrolled Americans after the venture started in January.

What happens when AI starts self-replicating?

AI-generated summary Anthropic recently published research indicating that small AI models will soon become capable of replicating and spreading across insecure devices to create botnets. EquiStamp CEO Chris Canal and cybersecurity professor Michael Bailey state that while the threat could change the economics between attackers and defenders, the actual risk may be less novel than it appears.