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A town in New Jersey was thrown into disarray when an article began to circle about a murder on Christmas Day.

The article began to make the rounds locally through the news aggregation website NewsBreak and claimed that a murder had occurred in the Southern New Jersey town of Bridgeton on Christmas Day. Local authorities have since come out to announce the article was "entirely false" and was generated by an AI-powered tool. Bridgeton Police Department wrote in a Facebook post that nothing even similar to what the story claimed occurred on or around Christmas, even going as far to say "even in recent memory for the area".

The article has since been removed from NewsBreak, while its existence, along with its short-lived impact, has raised some questions about AI-generated content, such as outlets failing to inform viewers that the story they are reading is generated by an AI-powered tool. These outlets are simply confusing the masses within an industry that is already infamously mistrusted, per Futurism.

AMD's CES 2024 presentation, 'together we advance AI,' is scheduled to take place on January 8 at 7 am PST - with AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su and AMD's Senior Vice President of Computing and Graphics Jack Huynh set to take the stage.

The details for the event specifically mention 'AI in personal computers,' so we should probably expect both CPU and GPU announcements. "AMD is powering the end-to-end infrastructure that will define the AI era," the event description reads. "From cloud installation to enterprise cluster, AI-enabled intelligent embedded devices and PCs."

The presentation is scheduled to occur before NVIDIA's big GeForce RTX 40 Series SUPER reveal, so it will be interesting to see if AMD has anything Radeon to show. There are credible rumors of a new AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT with 16GB of VRAM launching in late January, and with RDNA 3 including AI hardware - the new GPU could be announced at this presentation.

Forget the Windows key, there's a new introduction for Windows keyboards that Microsoft has just revealed - Copilot is getting its own dedicated key.

By pressing the Copilot key, as you can probably guess, you'll swiftly summon the presence of the AI assistant on your Windows 11 desktop (or Windows 10 for that matter, as Copilot is coming to the older OS, too).

In a blog post introducing the new key, Microsoft pointed out that this is the first 'significant change' to the Windows PC keyboard in the best part of 30 years. (It was nearly three decades ago when Microsoft first brought in the Windows key in all its shortcut-enabling glory.

Neuchips will be unveiling its revolutionary new Raptor Gen AI accelerator and Evo PCIe accelerator card LLM products at CES 2024, according to a new press release issued by the company.

The upcoming Neuchips Raptor Gen AI accelerator was previously known as the N3000, with the new chip solution enabling enterprises to deploy large language models (LLMs) inference at a "fraction of the cost" of existing solutions. We will get the full skinny on Neuchips' new AI processor at CES 2024 next week.

Neuchips CEO Ken Lau said in the press release: "We are thrilled to unveil our Raptor chip and Evo card to the industry at CES 2024. Neuchips' solutions represent a massive leap in price to performance for natural language processing. With Neuchips, any organisation can now access the power of LLMs for a wide range of AI applications".

NVIDIA is reportedly working on a new AI GPU dubbed "Skinny Joe," which could be on its way to China with a 700W TDP attached.

The new NVIDIA "Skinny Joe" AI GPU has been spotted with a reference Dev_ID listing, just above the new NVIDIA L20 AI GPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D graphics card. The GeForce RTX 4090 D is a new tweaked gaming GPU that uses the same AD102-based GPU as the GeForce RTX 4090 but tweaked to allow it into China with new US export restriction rules.

It would be funny if NVIDIA's new AI GPU for China were dubbed "Skinny Joe" because it has been cut down for the Joe Biden administration over all these US export restrictions. "Skinny Joe" could be named from it being a "skinny" aka cut-down version of a regular AI GPU like the H100, refreshed H200, or even the newer B100 AI GPU that's on the way in 2024.

AI is the theme of this year's upcoming CES 2024, with one of the biggest South Korean tech giants, Samsung Electronics, is set to showcase brand-new AI-powered home appliances.

Samsung's new AI-powered home appliances aim to make any lifestyle consumer more convenient and efficient. The world's biggest tech show will be held in Las Vegas from January 9th to January 12th. Samsung's newest kitchen products, applications, and features are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These new products with SmartThings connectivity will enable consumers to create their own home-smart ecosystem that delivers better experiences in the kitchen and everyday life.

At the event, Samsung plans to display their new Bespoke Jet Bot Combo and Bespoke Jet AI vacuum cleaners, which will both feature enhanced AI capabilities. The Bespoke Jet Bot Combo will use precise AI technology to help detect different types of flooring, from hardwood to carpet and clean them accordingly. The Bespoke Jet AI, however, has a mode that will categorize and optimize to take cleaning one step further, adjusting power based on brush load and pressure.

NVIDIA has been forced to tweak its AI GPUs to meet constantly updated US sanctions, with its new H20 AI GPU set to enter mass production in Q2 2024, ready for the Chinese market.

We reported -- last year, now that we're in 2024 -- that NVIDIA was in the process of making new AI GPUs for the Chinese market. These AI GPUs included the HGX H20, L20 PCIe, and L2 PCIe AI GPUs, which acted as alternatives to the AI GPUs that NVIDIA has on the market already.

The new H20 AI GPU is a cut-down version of the H100, with 96GB of HBM3 memory with up to 4.0TB/sec of memory bandwidth. There are 296 TFLOPs of compute power, and the H100 AI GPU die with a performance density of 2.9 TFLOPs/die, compared to the 19.4 TFLOPs/die of the regular H100 AI GPU.

NVIDIA is splashing down cash on next-gen HBM3e memory, where the AI GPU leader is securing enough stock of the new High-Bandwidth Memory for its upcoming Hopper H200 AI GPU and its next-gen Blackwell H200 AI GPU, which both arrive in 2024.

According to Korean media outlet Biz.Chosun, NVIDIA has placed orders for massive quantities of new HBM3e memory from both SK hynix and Micron. It was only yesterday that SK hynix announced its next-gen HBM4 memory has entered production, ready for 2024, with NVIDIA scooping up as much HBM3e memory as it can right now.

NVIDIA has reportedly pre-paid for around 700 billion to 1 trillion won for its HBM3e orders, which works out to a staggering $775 million USD. Remember: this is just the pre-payment and not the full amount... so we're talking an easy $1 billion (probably much more) in early HBM3e memory orders from NVIDIA alone.

As part of LG's "Zero Labor Home" vision, the company has announced a new cutting-edge robotic smart home Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that can move, learn, comprehend, and engage in complex conversations. Don't let the cute robotic animal look fool you; LG is collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies to develop this new AI agent as a smart solution to enhance "users' daily lives."

For something small and "cute," LG has opted not to refer to it as a robot or even give it a name. The press release refers to the new AI-powered technology as the 'LG smart home AI agent.' Perhaps this is a way to differentiate it from popular robotic pets like Sony's Aibo Robot Dog.

Even though the two-legged design with wheels is in line with robotic pets or companions we've seen in the past, LG's AI agent has the intelligence to interact with users while expressing itself through movements.

NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU is deployed across the world in countless data centers, supercomputers, and AI platforms... with over 3.5 million units expected to ship in 2024.

Market analysis source, Stock Talk, has published an estimated figure on the power consumption of all of these NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs in the wild. In the tweet, it said: "By next year, NVIDIA's ~3.5 million units of deployed H100 GPUs will consume a whopping 13,000 GWh of electricity annually, which is greater than the power consumption of some entire countries like Guatamela and Lithuania".

This is something we have heard before, where crypto mining installations were using as much power as countries, where I reported back in 2020 that one particular Bitcoin mining facility in Kazakhstan was using enough power for 180,000 homes. Another story in 2021 pointed to the fact that Bitcoin mining was using more electricity than countries like the Netherlands and Argentina.