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The annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off this week, and it’s happening against the backdrop of considerable turmoil in both the games industry proper and the AI-driven hardware supply shock that’s delaying mid-cycle and next-gen gaming hardware. In that context, it’s no surprise that Nvidia isn't bringing new GeForce cards to the show. Instead, the company is focusing on software performance enhancements and game tech integrations for upcoming titles
The biggest news the company is sharing at GDC is that Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced back at CES, will be arriving on March 31, along with extended 5x and 6x modes. Unlike the current MFG implementation, which only offers a constant frame rate multiplier, Dynamic MFG can shift gears on the fly in order to maintain a target frame rate.
All together, Dynamic MFG with 5x and 6x modes will likely be most useful to gamers with high-refresh-rate displays who want to ensure their systems are always hitting the lofty FPS numbers necessary to keep their screens operating near their peak output rates.
In tandem with the already available DLSS 4.5, which provides noticeably better image quality than past implementations even at relatively low input resolutions, gamers with RTX 50-series cards will soon have even more tools at their disposal in pursuit of a consistently smooth gaming experience.
Given the tradeoffs around input latency associated with MFG, now might seem like a natural time for Nvidia to offer an update on its Reflex 2 with Frame Warp latency-reduction tech, which has been stuck in "Coming Soon" status ever since the Blackwell GPU launch over a year ago. That isn't changing any time soon, however, as Nvidia only said to "stay tuned" regarding the technology in our briefing ahead of today's announcements.
DLSS 4.5 and Dynamic MFG will no doubt prove useful as Nvidia’s developer partners continue to integrate resource-intensive path-traced lighting effects in their titles. Nvidia says the upcoming Control Resonant and 007: First Light will both feature path-traced effects, and those titles will join the recently launched Resident Evil Requiem and the upcoming Pragmata as just a sampling of games that will incorporate these demanding rendering techniques.
Nvidia is also extending its RTX Mega Geometry technology to help CD Projekt Red create richer forested vistas in the upcoming The Witcher IV. This enhanced version of the tech allows for selective updates of ray-tracing data structures, along with support for finer-grained opacity micromaps, to allow for real-time ray tracing of even such complex scenes as an entire forest.
RTX Mega Geometry works best on the Blackwell architecture thanks to optimizations in the fourth-generation RT Cores present in those GPUs. The Witcher IV isn’t slated to arrive before 2027, but Blackwell gamers can be just a bit more smug in the meantime about the fact that the RT effects in that title will be optimized for their particular GPUs.
Generative AI aficionados are also getting a nod at GDC. Most locally generated assets are created through ComfyUI, and while that app’s node-based approach is familiar to those already versed in content-creation pipelines, it can be intimidating for those just dipping their toes into local AI workflows.
Nvidia has worked with ComfyUI to bring a new, more user-friendly “app view” interface to the table at GDC, and the company also touts the improvements it’s made to resource utilization in some workflows through the creation of better quantizations of models like LTX-2. Thanks to those improvements, creators can iterate more quickly on generative content on a broader range of hardware.
Even in the absence of new GPUs thus far in 2026, Nvidia’s GDC showing gives RTX 50-series owners a bit of a reason to be excited about being on the cutting edge of both gaming and AI. It’s a bit easier to swallow the absence of faster hardware when existing GPUs can upscale higher-quality frames and generate more of them if higher output frame rates are required, and while DLSS 4.5 works best on both RTX 40-series and 50-series GPUs, MFG remains a Blackwell-exclusive feature. Unless and until the AI chip crunch abates, getting more out of existing hardware is likely to be the way of things for the foreseeable future.
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It was disappointing to many not to see an RTX 50 Super refresh at CES 2026. Now, a new report from The Information states that Nvidia plans not to launch any new GPUs in 2026. It also confirmed that the upcoming RTX 60 series is delayed beyond 2027.
Nvidia reportedly completed the design of its RTX 50 Super refresh, but the outgoing memory chip shortage has allegedly incentivized Nvidia to deprioritize RTX 50 Super production. This issue is also causing problems for the RTX 60 series, which was reportedly supposed to begin "mass production at the end of 2027". Nvidia has not commented directly on these delays, but it told Tom's Hardware, "Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability."
Rumors of an RTX 50 Super refresh have been around for months, we even saw some leaks of potential specs of the cards. If the rumors were true, Nvidia was planning to launch an RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5070 Super, similar to the RTX 40 Series Super refresh that preceded it.
The main upgrade all of these RTX 50 Super GPUs were supposedly going to receive was a major spec bump in GDDR7 memory capacity and higher power limits. The RTX 5080 Super was supposedly going to get 24GB of GDDR7 and a 415W TGP. The outgoing 5080, by contrast, comes with 16GB of GDDR7 and a 360W TDP. Similarly, the RTX 5070 Ti Super was going to get 24GB of GDDR7 and a 350W TDP, compared to the outgoing 5070 Ti's 16GB of GDDR7 and 300W TDP.
The RTX 5070 Super is the only one of the three models that was rumored to get a core count increase, in addition to extra memory and higher TGP. The RTX 5070 Super was allegedly going to come with 6,400 CUDA cores, 18GB of GDDR7, and a 275W TDP compared to the outgoing 5070's 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR7, and 250W TGP.
Many expected Nvidia to announce the RTX 50 Series super refresh at CES 2026, but just before the event, Nvidia publicly announced that it would not announce any new GPUs at the event, a first for the company in five years.
During CES we finally saw some rumors cropping up for the RTX 60 series. These rumors pointed towards a 2H 2027 release date and a potential RTX 6090 graphics card that was at least 30% faster than the RTX 5090 using the Rubin architecture.
There is a chance Nvidia could still release new GPUs later in 2026, but this latest report has dampened hopes of that occurring. Nvidia's next generation RTX 60 series GPUs are now likely begin production in 2028.
The memory chip shortage is also causing mayhem with Nvidia's existing GPUs; Nvidia is rumored to have slashed GPU supply by 20%, and Nvidia is also prioritizing RTX 50 series GPUs with lower VRAM capacity to combat the shortage. The only good news in all of this is that Jensen Huang is looking to resurrect old GPUs to keep the market fresh with as much GPU supply as possible.
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As the entire industry plunges into a component drought, Nvidia has just announced on X that its CES 2026 keynote will have "no new GPUs," throwing cold water on the little hope left for new PC builders. This breaks a five-year long streak of consistently announcing new GPUs — desktop or mobile — at CES; instead, this time, there will be no new hardware at all.
Most of the presentation will likely focus on AI advancements. The Green Team has had new silicon to show at CES every year since 2021. Most recently, the RTX 50-series debuted at those iconic Las Vegas floors, and there have been rumblings and rumors of an RTX 50 Super series coming as well, aligning with the dates for CES 2026.
While there was never any official confirmation, the DRAM shortage may have derailed this launch, because otherwise, Nvidia did release the RTX 40 Super series at CES 2024, a year after the initial Ada Lovelace cards came out. Moreover, the company's latest Blackwell GPUs use GDDR7 memory, which is harder to produce. The situation has gotten so bad that wild rumors of Nvidia restarting RTX 3060 production have started floating around, since that card uses GDDR6 instead and is fabricated on Samsung's older 8nm process.
Sourcing memory is a big part of the problem. Nvidia can't announce new GPUs if the factories behind are entirely choked. Only three companies in the world, Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung, are capable of manufacturing cutting-edge DRAM to begin with, and they're all more than happy selling to AI clients for fatter margins. The hunger for AGI has led companies like OpenAI to chart record-breaking computing pursuits, ambitions that far exceed what our supply chains can even handle.
Some of you might be wondering why the government doesn't step in to help consumers here; isn't regulating the markets their job? Unfortunately, geopolitics further complicate this situation as frontier AI represents another arms race, and Washington wants to maintain its lead against China.
At the end of the day, there's no savior coming. Like the RAM crisis of 2014 and the various GPU shortages in the past decade, we'll have to wait until the AI boom goes stagnant. As of right now, Nvidia graphics cards still haven't experienced a price hike, so this might be the final few moments before we return to real scalping issues. Still, some people in the community, such as Sapphire's PR manager, are hopeful that even this storm can be ultimately weathered.
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The annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off this week, and it’s happening against the backdrop of considerable turmoil in both the games industry proper and the AI-driven hardware supply shock that’s delaying mid-cycle and next-gen gaming hardware. In that context, it’s no surprise that Nvidia isn't bringing new GeForce cards to the show. Instead, the company is focusing on software performance enhancements and game tech integrations for upcoming titles.
The biggest news the company is sharing at GDC is that Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced back at CES, will be arriving on March 31, along with extended 5x and 6x modes. Unlike the current MFG implementation, which only offers a constant frame rate multiplier, Dynamic MFG can shift gears on the fly in order to maintain a target frame rate.
All together, Dynamic MFG with 5x and 6x modes will likely be most useful to gamers with high-refresh-rate displays who want to ensure their systems are always hitting the lofty FPS numbers necessary to keep their screens operating near their peak output rates.
In tandem with the already available DLSS 4.5, which provides noticeably better image quality than past implementations even at relatively low input resolutions, gamers with RTX 50-series cards will soon have even more tools at their disposal in pursuit of a consistently smooth gaming experience.
Given the tradeoffs around input latency associated with MFG, now might seem like a natural time for Nvidia to offer an update on its Reflex 2 with Frame Warp latency-reduction tech, which has been stuck in "Coming Soon" status ever since the Blackwell GPU launch over a year ago. That isn't changing any time soon, however, as Nvidia only said to "stay tuned" regarding the technology in our briefing ahead of today's announcements.
DLSS 4.5 and Dynamic MFG will no doubt prove useful as Nvidia’s developer partners continue to integrate resource-intensive path-traced lighting effects in their titles. Nvidia says the upcoming Control Resonant and 007: First Light will both feature path-traced effects, and those titles will join the recently launched Resident Evil Requiem and the upcoming Pragmata as just a sampling of games that will incorporate these demanding rendering techniques.
Nvidia is also extending its RTX Mega Geometry technology to help CD Projekt Red create richer forested vistas in the upcoming The Witcher IV. This enhanced version of the tech allows for selective updates of ray-tracing data structures, along with support for finer-grained opacity micromaps, to allow for real-time ray tracing of even such complex scenes as an entire forest.
RTX Mega Geometry works best on the Blackwell architecture thanks to optimizations in the fourth-generation RT Cores present in those GPUs. The Witcher IV isn’t slated to arrive before 2027, but Blackwell gamers can be just a bit more smug in the meantime about the fact that the RT effects in that title will be optimized for their particular GPUs.
Generative AI aficionados are also getting a nod at GDC. Most locally generated assets are created through ComfyUI, and while that app’s node-based approach is familiar to those already versed in content-creation pipelines, it can be intimidating for those just dipping their toes into local AI workflows.
Nvidia has worked with ComfyUI to bring a new, more user-friendly “app view” interface to the table at GDC, and the company also touts the improvements it’s made to resource utilization in some workflows through the creation of better quantizations of models like LTX-2. Thanks to those improvements, creators can iterate more quickly on generative content on a broader range of hardware.
Even in the absence of new GPUs thus far in 2026, Nvidia’s GDC showing gives RTX 50-series owners a bit of a reason to be excited about being on the cutting edge of both gaming and AI. It’s a bit easier to swallow the absence of faster hardware when existing GPUs can upscale higher-quality frames and generate more of them if higher output frame rates are required, and while DLSS 4.5 works best on both RTX 40-series and 50-series GPUs, MFG remains a Blackwell-exclusive feature. Unless and until the AI chip crunch abates, getting more out of existing hardware is likely to be the way of things for the foreseeable future.
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Although ByteDance cannot get its hands on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs to develop its AI products, the company is looking forward to using a cluster containing 36,000 of its B200 GPUs that is physically located in Malaysia, reports the Wall Street Journal. The cluster will be used for research and development purposes as the company wants its share of the global AI pie. Nvidia says it is perfectly legal for the company to use such a cluster as long as it was built in compliance with the U.S. export controls.
The cluster, worth around $2.5 billion and consisting of 500 NVL72 GB200 rack-scale systems, will be formally owned and operated by Aolani Cloud in Malaysia. The hardware will be supplied through Aivres, a company that builds servers based on Nvidia GPUs, according to the WSJ, which cites people familiar with the arrangements. An Aolani spokesperson told WSJ that the company currently operates with roughly $100 million worth of hardware, so the scale of the proposed expansion is vast, but it is not completely clear who is funding it. ByteDance is also reportedly considering additional deployments, such as a cluster containing over 7,000 B200 GPUs at a data center in Indonesia.
Aolani has been leasing AI servers equipped with Nvidia H100 GPUs in Malaysia to ByteDance since February, 2025, so it is highly likely that the company’s primary focus is to lease AI hardware to the Chinese company. That said, the Hopper-based cluster is likely a test vehicle to ensure that ByteDance can technically use it, and the U.S. regulators do not oppose such usage by granting all the required export licenses. For the planned Blackwell deployment, initial payments have reportedly already been made.
Aolani was established in late 2023 and operates under a Cayman Islands holding structure, according to company registry documents cited by the WSJ. The company is designated as a Tier-1 cloud partner of Nvidia, which means that it has certification from the developer of AI GPUs and priority access to its newest accelerators, but this does not mean that Nvidia has all the required export licenses from the U.S. government to ship to Aolani. For advanced AI GPUs (H100/B200/B300, etc.), Nvidia must ensure that every shipment complies with U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security rules.
Exports of Nvidia AI accelerators to Malaysia typically do not require a BIS export license, but compliance checks are still mandatory, and licenses may be required in certain cases. To that end, Nvidia’s compliance teams review cloud partners before shipping hardware to them.
All Nvidia cloud partners are evaluated and cleared by Nvidia’s field operations, finance, and compliance teams before they can receive our products, directly or through an OEM,” an Nvidia spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware.
While ByteDance is a China-based company, it is not in the Bureau’s Entity List or Military End Use (MEU) list, so its potential use of Nvidia hardware does not automatically trigger a red flag for Nvidia, Aolani, or the U.S. government. Furthermore, the 2023 U.S. export controls primarily regulate where the hardware is shipped, not where its compute oomph is used, which means that the rules were intentionally written to allow global cloud infrastructure based on American hardware. While many U.S. lawmakers are uneasy about usage of American AI accelerators by Chinese companies in the cloud, this is completely legal under the current export rules framework.
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Even though Nvidia's AI GPUs and rack-scale solutions remain the most sought-after AI accelerators, curbs set on exports of Nvidia's AI processors to China, first by the White House and then by Beijing, are having a drastic effect on the company's presence in the People's Republic. As a result, the company's share in China could drop to just 8% in the coming years as domestic suppliers can satisfy around 80% of local demand, reports Nikkei, citing analysis from Bernstein.
The new products meet the needs of domestic developers," said Zhang Jianzhong, chief executive of Moore Threads, at a news conference while announcing the codenamed Huashan product, the company's first GPU dedicated solely for the acceleration of AI workloads. "There will be no more need to wait for advanced products from overseas."
Analysts from Bernstein cited by Chinese media expect Nvidia's share of China’s AI processor market to drop to around 8% this year from 66% in 2024 as Huawei, Cambricon, and other local independent hardware vendors (IHVs) together approaching 80%. The rise of Chinese hardware accelerators is a result of a combination of events, including restrictions set on Nvidia hardware, progress of hardware from companies like Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads, and MetaX, as well as substantial improvements in their software stacks.
Moore Threads' Huashan can compete against Nvidia's Hopper H100 and H200 products, the company's previous-generation AI accelerators that the U.S. recently allowed to export to China, but with some serious strings attached. However, they are considerably slower than Nvidia's existing Blackwell B200 and B300 GPUs, which are barred from export to the People's Republic.
Meanwhile, Huawei's AI CloudMatrix 384 can beat both GB200 NVL72 and GB300 NVL72 systems in BF16 FLOPS, a popular format used for AI training, albeit with four times more power consumption. The company's next-generation Atlas 950 SuperCluster, based on 524,288 Ascend 950DT AI accelerators, is projected to offer up to 524 FP8 ExaFLOPS for AI training and up to 1 FP4 ZettaFLOPS for AI inference (MXFP4 to be more specific) sometimes in 2026 – 2027 and 4 ZettaFLOPS by the end of 2028. This is still behind leading Blackwell-based clusters, such as Oracle's OCI Supercluster running 131,072 B200 GPUs and offering peak performance of up to 2.4 FP4 ZettaFLOPS for inference, but it is evident that Chinese developers are rapidly increasing the performance of their AI hardware.
Given the progress, the remaining hurdle is completing the transition from an ecosystem long centered on Nvidia to a fully domestic hardware and software stack, which may not be that easy to achieve, as many existing AI deployments use Nvidia hardware and Nvidia CUDA software stack and porting them to Chinese hardware and software is hard and expensive.
Yet, transition to domestic AI hardware (and domestic hardware in general) is China's long-term national goal. A draft five-year plan reportedly circulated by the Communist Party in October calls for semiconductor self-reliance under a 'new national system' that directs state bodies, private companies, and financial institutions. At the heart of this effort are the so-called 'four little dragons' of Chinese GPUs: Moore Threads, MetaX, Biren Technology, and Suiyuan Technology (Enflame).
Large hyperscalers are also intensifying their custom silicon programs. Baidu's Kunlunxin unit plans to introduce five AI processors by 2030, and Alibaba is also not giving up on its own silicon efforts. Yet, to a large degree, China's AI industry is limited by SMIC's ability to produce chips on its 7nm-class process technologies in sizable quantities. If the company cannot increase its output substantially in the coming years, then either China's AI sector will fall behind America's dramatically, or it will find a way to obtain high-performance GPUs from Nvidia to keep up.Large hyperscalers are also intensifying their custom silicon programs. Baidu's Kunlunxin unit plans to introduce five AI processors by 2030, and Alibaba is also not giving up on its own silicon efforts. Yet, to a large degree, China's AI industry is limited by SMIC's ability to produce chips on its 7nm-class process technologies in sizable quantities. If the company cannot increase its output substantially in the coming years, then either China's AI sector will fall behind America's dramatically, or it will find a way to obtain high-performance GPUs from Nvidia to keep up.
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The Banning Event Trading on Sensitive Operations and Federal Functions (BETS OFF) Act would outlaw corrupt wagers from those who already know the outcome of matters including government action, terrorism, war, assassination and other events the bettor has inside knowledge of. It's backed by Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has been a prominent critic of the administration of President Donald Trump, and Representative Greg Casar, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The lawmakers said they're responding to reports that prediction market accounts had placed significant bets before the U.S. operations in Venezuela and Iran. While legislation from Democrats won't likely be a priority for a Congress that's still majority-controlled in both chambers by Republicans, the midterm elections are considered likely to swing the House back to a Democratic majority — and possibly the Senate, according to those same prediction markets the lawmakers are focused on. If Democrats control the gavels of congressional committees, their preferred legislation has a better chance at a hearing.
According to the text of the bill, any kind of bet that has the potential for insider trading would be barred. This extends beyond government-related actions, a one-pager shared alongside the bill text said. Events like surprise singers at the Super Bowl halftime show or winners of awards programming would also be barred "because insiders know the outcome in advance."
The text of the bill itself defines "specified events" as including "any event … the outcome of which is under the complete control of any person; or the outcome of which is known by any person in advance.
Market manipulation and fraudulent betting is a matter in the hands of the platforms' regulator, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Trump's appointed chairman, Mike Selig, is a fan of prediction markets who has argued they can represent an antidote to faulty political polling and media reporting.
They also have a potential insider-trading problem, as seen in a couple of internal disciplinary actions recently taken by one of the leading firms, Kalshi. It suspended and fined two of its users, including a political candidate who had placed a bet on his own candidacy for California governor that he knew the outcome of.
In January, Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat who's been a longtime ally of the crypto sector, introduced a bill with dozens of fellow lawmakers on board that was similarly meant to crack down on insider trading after suspicious bets on the actions in Venezuela. And just last week, Senator Adam Schiff of California introduced a bill to ban prediction market contracts tied to war, terror, assassinations or death outright, while fellow Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill of his own to target insider trading and market manipulation.
Murphy's bill would similarly block the CFTC from listing contracts touching these areas outright.
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Crypto markets cooled after Monday's rally, with bitcoin eyeing support near $72,000–$74,000 even as derivatives positioning remains broadly bullish and altcoins see deeper profit-taking.
Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 futures, in contrast, rose by 0.6% despite oil trading above $100 per barrel and the war in Iran continuing to rage.
Despite the decline in crypto markets, the average relative strength index (RSI) remains firmly in "overbought" territory, suggesting further drops toward $72,000 may be on the cards.
However, such a move would resemble a period of consolidation after bitcoin rose by more than 15% from $65,000 since March 8.
A bounce between $72,000 and $74,000 would indicate a fresh level of support being formed, potentially serving as a platform for an ascent to above $80,000.
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Payments giant Mastercard moves to bridge fiat and crypto with $1.8 billion acquisition of the U.K. based stablecoin startup.
U.K.-based BVNK is a stablecoin company enabling businesses to move money in seconds across more than 130 countries. Its infrastructure, used by firms including Worldpay, Deel and Flywire, processes billions of dollars annually and is designed to bridge traditional fiat systems with blockchain-based payments.
By integrating BVNK’s technology, Mastercard said it aims to connect on-chain payments with its global network, enabling use cases such as cross-border transfers, remittances and business-to-business payments.
“We expect that most financial institutions and fintechs will in time provide digital currency services,” said Jorn Lambert, Mastercard’s chief product officer, in a statement. The deal will help bring “the benefits of tokenized money to the real world.”
The agreement comes several months after Coinbase ended $2 billion acquisition talks with the stablecoin startup. At the time, a Coinbase spokesperson declined to provide a reason for the talks' collapse.
For Mastercard, the acquisition highlights its growing push into digital assets as stablecoin adoption accelerates. Just last week, it announced the launch of its Crypto Partner Program, which brings together more than 85 companies from across the digital asset and payments industries, an effort to link blockchain technology more directly with the infrastructure that underpins global commerce.
Stablecoin payment volumes reached at least $350 billion in 2025, according to the company, with increasing regulatory clarity prompting banks and fintechs to explore offerings tied to tokenized deposits and blockchain-based money movement.
The company also said the combined capabilities will focus on interoperability between fiat and digital currencies while maintaining compliance and security standards expected by financial institutions.
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It is easy to be led by the various damning headlines that suggest demand for electric vehicles is waning to the point that big automotive players are completely rethinking their strategies.
Granted, the likes of Porsche and Ford have back-tracked on plans, shoehorning gasoline engines and hybrid set-ups into models that were destined to be pure electric, but this isn’t the case for everyone.
Kia, Hyundai, Renault, Peugeot and the Volkswagen Group continued to release new and exciting EVs throughout 2025, while Tesla updated its two best-selling vehicles in the Model 3 and Model Y this year.
What’s more, the Chinese brands that once operated on the fringes are now becoming ever-more mainstream, with the likes of BYD, MG, LeapMotor and more all grabbing large slices of the market in the UK, Europe and beyond.
It’s a slightly different story in the US, where a reversal on incentives and tax breaks has slowed EV progress, often forcing many of the aforementioned brands to rethink their electric strategy in North America to ensure they remain profitable.
Polestar, Volkswagen, Audi and Mercedes-Benz all paused or scrapped plans to launch models in the US, but that hasn’t prevented homegrown talent from prevailing.
Tesla and Rivian continue to reach new buyers, Hyundai and Kia remain popular and Nissan’s recently release Leaf is making waves for its range and affordability.
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BYD confirms that Denza will bring its Flash charging to Europe
The 1,500kW outlets can deliver a 10-70% charge in only five minutes
Chinese Z9 GT can manage 644-miles on a single charge
Denza, which is considered the ‘premium technology-orientated automotive brand’ in the BYD Group, has confirmed that its headline-grabbing Z9 GT performance EV will be heading to Europe, alongside the equally impressive 1,500kW charging capabilities.
Already in use in China, BYD’s Flash Charging stations deliver more than three-times the output of rival ‘ultra fast-charging’ outlets, enabling a 10-70% charge in only five minutes and a 10-97% refill in just nine minutes, even in -30°C temperatures, it claims.siyam
The Denza Z9 GT rides on a bespoke e3 platform, with the shooting brake Grand Tourer boasting a 122kWh Blade Battery and up to 800km (almost 500 miles) on a single charge in the rear-wheel-drive edition.
There is also a more performance-focused version that uses three electric motors to deliver more than 960hp and a 0-62mph sprint time of less than three seconds. Both models are due to go one sale in April of this year.
According to Car News China, the Z9 GT became the fastest new energy luxury GT to deliver 10,000 vehicles in China when it went on sale early last year, with more than 5,000 orders within 36 hours of its launch.
There’s no word on European pricing just yet, but the cheapest cars start at just 443,900 yuan ($45,900 / around £35,000 / AU$65,000) and tops out at 384,800 yuan ($52,600 / around £40,000 / AU$75,000) in China.
Despite those figures likely increasing when factoring in import costs and taxes, the Denza brand could still drastically undercut premium rivals from established players, such as Porsche, Audi and BMW.
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Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads just held its MUSA Developer Conference, where it unveiled "Huagang," its next-gen architecture set to debut next year. Huagang will span gaming and AI, with significant performance gains promised for both. The event was light on details, so we don't actually have any specs; just claims of what to expect, and we have a lot to look forward to if these promises are true, such as a 15x uplift in "AAA" gaming and a whopping 50x boost in ray tracing performance.
Let's start with "Lushan," the new gaming GPU powered by Huagang that will succeed the existing MTT S80 and S90 models. The latter is the best GPU Moore Threads has offered for a while, and it barely outperforms the RTX 4060, so a rehaul was long overdue. With Lushan, Moore Threads is claiming a 15x uplift in "AAA" gaming — whatever that means (raster?) — and a whopping 50x boost in ray tracing performance.
Moreover, the company is quoting a 64x increase in AI compute, 16x in texture geometry processing, 4x in texture fill, 8x in atomic access, and 4x in memory capacity. For context, the S80 and S90 carry 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, so next year's Lushan GPUs are expected to feature up to 64 GB of memory, which would be interesting to see in these times.
Another vital improvement to Moore Threads' new GPUs is full support for modern APIs such as DirectX 12 Ultimate, which should alleviate compatibility concerns. There is a dedicated 2nd-gen hardware ray tracing engine, along with a new AI hardware block for the "UniTE" unified rendering architecture, which should bring the GPU's rendering pipeline to parity with offerings from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
Alongside Lushan, Moore Threads also teased the "Huashan" AI GPU, which consists of two chiplets and 8 HBM modules. The performance is being touted as comparable to Nvidia's Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, with memory bandwidth exceeding even the B200. The company also claims a 50% increase in compute density and a 10x improvement in efficiency.
Huashan supports FP4 through FP64 compute and offers exclusive low-precision mixed formats: MTFP4, MTFP6, and MTFP8. In terms of connectivity, Moore Threads plans to scale these GPUs across AI factories, with over 100,000 GPUs interconnected at up to 1314 GB/s via the MTLink 4.0 interconnect.
While we didn't see any gaming or AI benchmarks for these next-gen GPUs, Moore Threads demonstrated DeepSeek V3 performance on the MTT S5000 GPU, achieving 1000 tokens per second in Decode and 4000 tokens per second in Prefill. These results put it slightly ahead of Nvidia's Hopper lineup, which has historically been the cap for Green Team in China in terms of AI GPUs.
The MTT S5000 will launch next year, but it's not part of the Huashan lineup, as it's been in the news before. We should learn more about MT's Huagang GPUs in the coming months as the company takes industry giants like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD head-on with a state-backed Chinese alternative that should help fuel the region's self-reliance ambitions.
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For the first time in five years, Nvidia, the largest GPU manufacturer in the world, didn't announce any new GPUs at CES. The company instead brought the next-gen Vera Rubin AI supercomputer to the party. Gaming wasn't entirely sidelined, though, as DLSS 4.5 and MFG 6X both made their debut, major upgrades to AI-powered rendering that seems even more crucial given the comments that have followed its announcement.
At a Q&A session with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, attended by Tom's Hardware in Las Vegas, the executive offered his thoughts about the future of AI as it pertains to gaming toPC World's Adam Patrick Murray, who asked Huang: "Is the RTX 5090 the fastest GPU that gamers will ever see in traditional rasterization, and what does AI gaming look like in the future?" Jensen responded by saying:
“I think that the answer is hard to predict. Maybe another way of saying it is that the future is neural rendering. It is basically DLSS. That’s the way graphics ought to be. I think you’re going to see more and more advances of DLSS... I would expect that the ability for us to generate imagery of almost any style — from photo realism, extreme photo realism, basically a photograph interacting with you at 500 frames a second, all the way to cartoon shading if you want — that entire range is going to be quite sensible to expect."
Huang further speculated that the future of rendering likely involves more AI operations on fewer, extremely high quality pixels, and shared that "we're working on things in the lab that are just utterly shocking and incredible."
With the way games are optimized (or not) these days, upscaling and even frame-gen are expected parts of the performance equation at this point. Developers often count DLSS as part of the default system requirements now, so Jensen's enthusiasm for the tech is timely and, of course, characteristic.
Going as far as to say that the "future is neural rendering" is a strong indication that the raster race might be over, and that it's "basically DLSS" that will push us past the finishing line now. As companies experiment with more and more neural techniques for operations like texture compression and decompression, neural radiance fields, frame generation, and even an entire neural rendering replacement for the traditional graphics pipeline, it's clear that matrix math acceleration and purpose-built AI models will play ever larger roles in real-time rendering going forward.
neural rendering" is a strong indication that the raster race might be over, and that it's "basically DLSS" that will push us past the finishing line now. As companies experiment with more and more neural techniques for operations like texture compression and decompression, neural radiance fields, frame generation, and even an entire neural rendering replacement for the traditional graphics pipeline, it's clear that matrix math acceleration and purpose-built AI models will play ever larger roles in real-time rendering going forward.
The CEO extended his passion for AI by talking about how in-game characters will also be overtaken by AI, built from scratch with neural networks at the center of them, turning NPCs lifelike. It's not just photorealism, but also emotional realism, perhaps taking a load off the CPU that would otherwise compute logic for random characters. Nvidia's ACE platform has already been working toward this for a while now and is currently present across the landscape.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has said that his government is in talks with the Trump administration to find solutions to the two countries' differences, as the Caribbean country continues to face the effects of a US oil blockade.
Díaz-Canel said no fuel had entered Cuba in three months.
Talks between the two nations were in their initial stages, said Díaz-Canel, who is leading the Cuban side of negotiations, in a national broadcast on Friday.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Cuba was in "deep trouble" as he threatened a "friendly takeover".
Cuba is experiencing several blackouts as the island struggles with fuel shortages, which have been made worse by pressure from the US.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has made clear his desire to change Cuba's leadership. He has also threatened tariffs on goods imported into the US from any country that gives Cuba oil.
The White House told the BBC on Friday that: "As the president stated, we are talking to Cuba, whose leaders should make a deal, which he believes 'would be very easily made'".
Havana relies heavily on imported fuel for its electricity and the US has seized a number of oil shipments bound for Cuba.
Venezuela was believed to have sent around 35,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba, providing about half the island's oil needs. But Washington's Venezuela raid - and capture of President Nicolás Maduro - in early January has disrupted the arrangement.
In his national broadcast, Díaz-Canel said that not having fuel enter Cuba for the past three months has led to the gradual decline of diesel and fuel oil reserves. Given this, the country's electrical grid has become increasingly "unstable", he said.
To mitigate the impact Cuba had increased production of domestic crude and gas, as well as solar generation.
The US and Cuba have had strained relations since communist leader Fidel Castro overthrew a US-backed government in 1959. US sanctions and trade embargoes on Cuba have been in place since the early 1960s.
The island nation is just 90 miles (145 km) south of Florida. Given the proximity, many Cubans who do not identify with Havana's politics emigrate to the US, which is one of the reasons why Miami has such a large Cuban-American demographic.
Regarding the current talks, Trump has said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is the son of Cuban immigrants, is involved.
Speaking in February, Rubio said Cuba needed to change.
"It needs to change dramatically because it is the only chance that it has to improve the quality of life for its people," he told reporters on 25 February.
Additionally, Cuba will release 51 prisoners in the coming days as a demonstration of "goodwill" following talks with the Vatican, Havana's government said.
It comes weeks after Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met Pope Leo in the Vatican.
Cuba did not specify whether those to be freed included political prisoners, but it said they had all "served a significant portion of their sentences and have maintained good conduct while in prison".
Detailing the forthcoming release, Cuba's foreign ministry said that since 2010 Havana has pardoned 9,905 prisoners.
Over the last three years, the ministry added, another 10,000 people who had been imprisoned were released "through various other forms of relief". The government said the decision was "sovereign" and in line with the upcoming Holy Week in the Christian calendar.
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Despite increasing competition from Intel and AMD, Nvidia's RTX lineup remains the best hardware for ray tracing and path tracing in games. Ever since Turing, RTX 20 series, the company has made significant strides — mostly leveraging AI and neural rendering — to increase graphical fidelity without compromising performance. Now, at GDC 2026, it's claiming that the future holds an even more impressive milestone.
During the presentation, John Spitzer (Dev & Performance VP) presented a line graph that plotted the progress of ray tracing and path tracing performance in Nvidia's gaming GPUs. At the far-left corner, we see Pascal, aka the legendary RTX 10 series, which came out a decade ago. Comparing that to today's Blackwell GPUs (RTX 50), the path tracing performance has apparently improved by 10,000 times already.
That's largely due to a focus on hardware-accelerated neural rendering enabled by dedicated RT and Tensor cores that handle machine learning inside Nvidia GPUs. Features like DLSS are entirely reliant on AI; the ability to piece together frame data more accurately in both upscaling and frame-gen situations is only possible due to models trained on Nvidia's supercomputers.
Spitzer says that Moore's Law is dead and that silicon advancements alone wouldn't be enough to generate photorealistic visuals in his lifetime. Nvidia wants to achieve a level of graphical fidelity that's indistinguishable from real life, but that would require a "hundred or thousand times more computational power" — this is where AI becomes the catalyst.
In the future, AI advances will take gaming GPUs to 1,000,000 times better path tracing performance when compared to the RTX 10 series. Newer, faster, more efficient hardware blocks will basically make neural rendering the default going forward, as already claimed by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Games would "look like a film" while still running smoothly due to multiple frames being interpolated in real-time by AI.
None of this is a revelation — of course, things are supposed to get better over time — but the wait might not be too long. The next-gen Rubin GPUs from Nvidia, slated to launch sometime between 2027 and 2028, could usher in this 1-million-times better path tracing reality. The list of games supporting path tracing is already growing at a rapid pace, with Resident Evil Requiem being the latest addition.
As such, the presentation also included some bits about new path tracing technologies, such as ReSTIR (recent spatiotemporal resampling algorithms) and RTX Mega Geometry. To showcase this, Nvidia brought a tech demo for Witcher 4 with over two trillion triangles in the scene, depicting realistic foliage and lighting simultaneously. Make sure to check out the video linked above for more details.
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PwC planning to increase the number of graduates it takes on
Marco Amitrano said PwC had cut back on new graduate roles last year due to the flagging economy, not AI.
In his experience new recruits came into the firm keen to be in the office and "hungry" to pursue a career, he said.
Young people have been hardest hit by the recent rise in unemployment, prompting some to question the value of taking on large debts to obtain a degree.
However Amitrano defended the idea of university study for the "life skills" it offers.
Younger workers have been characterised as a less resilient, "snowflake" generation, but Amitrano said new hires to PwC, one of the UK's biggest graduate recruiters, had struck him as eager to learn and earn well.
"I don't see a new wave of young people coming into organisations wanting to work from home, being more vulnerable, more fragile. I don't see that," Amitrano said.
What I'm finding from our new joiners is that they want to be in the office, or on the client side, as often as they can be, because they're hungry.
Yes they want to be paid well, they want to be able to afford things, they want to progress through their careers. But they're ready to take it on."
Amitrano, who heads PwC's 23,000 strong workforce in the UK, as well as operations in the Middle East, made the comments in a wide-ranging BBC Big Boss Interview podcast.
He said the US-Israeli war with Iran had sent "a particularly big shock through the system" just at a time when business confidence had been improving.
The government had hit business too hard when it raised employers' National Insurance contributions in autumn 2024, followed by bigger than expected rises to minimum wage rates, and new employment rights, which had deterred businesses from hiring, investing and growing, he said
But in the last 12 months there had been a "rebuild of a dialog between government and business", he said.
His own message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves is that she should relax her self-imposed fiscal rules, in the wake of the current energy price spike and its likely impact on inflation.
"I don't see any way that the chancellor is going to find a way out of this without finding a way to loosen the rules around what we're willing to borrow," he said.
The chancellor has staked her reputation on not watering down rules that require her to stay within tight guardrails: by the end of this parliament day-to-day spending must be covered by tax receipts, and debt must be falling in relation to the size of the economy.
Amitrano said additional borrowing would allow more spending on "technology, talent and infrastructure", which would in turn, help unlock overseas investment in the UK.
Such a move would have to be done "openly and transparently" he said, to avoid a market shock.
I'm not saying we just change these rules tomorrow. I think we start to table a plan that shows how loosening those rules will lead to investment and growth in the medium term," he said.
In response, the Treasury said it had the "right economic plan" with borrowing already falling.
Our non-negotiable fiscal rules were set out publicly two years ago by the chancellor," a Treasury spokesperson said.
They ensure that we are getting borrowing and debt down, while prioritising investment to support long-term growth."
Analysts are divided over how much the roll-out of artificial intelligence lies behind slower recruitment for graduates. But Amitrano blamed the slowdown in economic growth for PwC's reduced intake last year, which saw new graduate roles cut from 1,500 to 1,300.
He said the firm was increasing its use of artificial intelligence, but that he expected graduate recruitment numbers would also grow in the next 12 months.
Competition for all roles is more fierce than ever, he added. PwC received 60,000 applications for 2,000 entry level posts - a 35% increase on the year before.
Unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds rose to its highest in more than 10 years at the end of 2025. And there are nearly a million 16-24 year-olds not in work or education, separate figures show.
Many graduates have found it difficult to find work, despite having earned a good degree.
"I personally would still go to university," said Amitrano - who studied engineering at the University of Newcastle.
The "high pressure learning environment", the opportunity to learn life skills, and being away from home, were valuable experiences, he said.
There is a debate about, is the piece of paper worth it
What's not on a piece of paper might be worth it. And that's what I'm looking for," he said.
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Canadians have lost more than 100,000 full-time jobs since the beginning of 2026, adding pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney's government as it seeks to shield the economy from the impact of US tariffs on Canada.
Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.7%, according to the latest labour figures released on Friday - the second-highest among wealthy G7 nations, behind France.
February saw the sharpest drop in employment since the Covid-19 pandemic, wiping out much of the job growth recorded late last year, with the wholesale and retail trade sector taking the biggest hit.
Responding to the report, Carney said US trade actions against Canada are "causing big adjustments in the Canadian economy".
Carney, who spoke to reporters during a visit to Norway on Friday, also noted that wages overall in the country have trended upwards and that the unemployment rate is lower than when he took office in March 2025, when it was 6.8%.
The latest jobs figures were described as worrisome by some economists, while the opposition Conservative party called the report "terrible news".
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre partly blamed Carney's leadership, noting Canada's weaker economic position among G7 allies.
It is true that we have global problems and we cannot discount or try to control what President (Donald) Trump does," Poilievre told reporters on Friday. "But all the countries are facing those tariffs. None of them have a shrinking economy like we do under Mark Carney here in Canada."
Poilievre spoke ahead of a trip he is taking to the US, where he plans to have meetings with automotive companies' executives as well as lawmakers to discuss his party's approach to the ongoing Canada-US trade dispute.
Since taking office last year, Trump has imposed tariffs on key Canadian sectors including automobiles, steel, and aluminium, which have resulted in thousands of job losses.
Trump has also imposed separate, broad-range tariffs, including a new worldwide 10% duty, although many Canadian exports have been shielded from them thanks to the long-standing North American trade agreement called the USMCA.
Right now, the future of the USMCA is uncertain. It is undergoing a mandatory review this year and Trump has indicated he may favour scrapping it or carving out separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico.
That uncertainty is a main driver for job figures in Canada taking a "worrisome turn", said CIBC Capital Markets senior economist Katherine Judge.
This is clearly a very worrisome report...that shows that labour market slack has increased and activity is frozen amidst trade uncertainty," she wrote on Friday.
The US is by far Canada's largest export market, leaving it especially vulnerable to American tariffs. Around three-quarters of Canadian goods were sold to the US, though that share has fallen to about 67% in recent months.
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If you’re raising a teenager today, it can feel like every parenting decision carries enormous stakes.
Parents are bombarded with alarming headlines about adolescent mental health: rising anxiety, loneliness and depression. Social media, smartphones and academic pressure are often cited as the causes. Every week seems to bring a new explanation for why teens are struggling.
The message many parents absorb is simple: Don’t make things worse.
After hearing that often enough, many parents start to worry that one wrong move could make things worse. They try not to push too hard or enforce too many rules, fearing that doing so might add to their kids’ stress.
But in the process, something important can get lost. In today’s parenting culture, many parents have quietly grown afraid to claim their authority
We see this tension every day. As clinical psychologists who have spent decades working with parents and adolescents — and as parents of teens ourselves — we have a front-row seat to how uncertain many parents feel about claiming authority as part of their job.
One of the most stabilizing forces in a teenager’s life is knowing that the system around them has structure — and that capable adults are holding it.
When parents provide that structure, teens feel something psychologists sometimes call “containment”: the sense that big emotions and messy moments are held inside something steady and reliable. Without it, all that intensity can start to feel exposed. It’s like an egg without a protective shell.
That matters because adolescence is a time when feelings get bigger before self-control fully catches up. Teens feel things intensely and react quickly. They care a great deal about friendship, belonging, status and independence.
This means that big emotions are part of adolescence. Teens are supposed to push limits and argue about rules. They may slam doors or act like your boundary is the most unreasonable thing that has ever happened to them.
Big feelings often lead to big behaviors. A parent’s job is to stay steady inside them. Here are a few ways that can look in real life:
A lot of confusion today comes from how we think about autonomy.
Autonomy means gradually learning to make decisions within the safety of a clear, steady structure.
Teens push for autonomy. Parents hold the boundaries that make it possible. Inside those boundaries, teens test limits, negotiate responsibility and learn to tolerate frustration — experiences that build judgment and resilience over time.
Without that structure, teens aren’t really practicing independence. They’re just unmoored. And deep down, even when they push against limits, most teens feel safer when a parent is willing to hold the line with calm and care.
Every family’s structure looks different. It might include where phones live after 9:30 at night, what “I’ll be home later” really means, or whether a party requires a parent present.
It also includes the norms that shape family life, like how people treat one another, how conflict is handled and what accountability looks like.
Remember, structure gives teenagers something to grow inside of — a shell that holds things together while something stronger and more independent forms within.
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The artificial intelligence (AI) market expanded rapidly over the past decade, but it could still be in its infancy. According to Grand View Research, the global AI market could still expand at a 30.6% CAGR from 2026 to 2033 as more industries use AI to streamline their operations.
Nvidia is the world's largest producer of discrete GPUs. Unlike CPUs, which are optimized for sequential tasks, GPUs are designed to process parallel tasks. That makes them more effective at processing graphics and training AI algorithms than stand-alone CPUs.
Nvidia controls more than 90% of the discrete GPU market and generates most of its revenue from data center GPUs. Most of the world's top AI companies use those GPUs, and Nvidia locks those clients into its proprietary programming platform and other first-party services.
Broadcom sells a wide range of chips for the mobile, data center, networking, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. Over the past few years, it has also expanded its infrastructure software business with big acquisitions. By bundling together its chips and software, it locks in its customers and offsets the cyclical pressures of the broader semiconductor market.
Most of Broadcom's recent growth was driven by its sales of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for accelerating custom AI tasks. Many hyperscalers are installing those custom AI accelerators to dilute their long-term costs and curb their dependence on Nvidia.
Nvidia's sales of discrete GPUs will continue rising, since it still sells the best picks and shovels for the AI gold rush. It reinforced its market dominance with its Turing (2019), Ampere (2020), Hopper (2022), and Blackwell (2024) chip architectures, and it plans to launch its next chip architecture, Rubin, in the second half of 2026.
Broadcom will also keep growing as its hyperscale customers order more custom AI accelerators to support more demanding applications. In fiscal 2025 (which ended last November), its total AI chip sales surged 65% to $20 billion, accounting for 31% of its top line. It aims to generate $60-$90 billion in annualized AI chip revenue by the end of fiscal 2027.
Both companies are growing their revenues and profits at high double-digit rates. However, Nvidia and Broadcom still trade at 18 times and 24 times their next year's earnings, respectively. Therefore, both stocks could have plenty of room to run as the AI market expands and evolves.
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