Tom's Hardware

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.

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Saturday 31 October

A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

AI-generated summary According to Exin Therapeutics cofounder and CEO Gabriel Ocana-Santero, a Claude model is said to have autonomously selected a gene therapy and performed surgery on a mouse brain. The autonomous agent refused to bypass a safety restriction during the procedure after a connection dropped and its calculated target position fell outside the device physical range of motion.

Also covered by WIRED tomshardware.com