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The Trump administration's reported moves against Anthropic are raising serious questions about the future of AI regulation in the United States. The bigger story may not be what happens to Anthropic, but who steps into the vacuum — whether that's OpenAI, Google, or overseas competitors less burdened by Washington's scrutiny.
Shifting gears to hardware, a modder has done something genuinely wild: converting a countertop ice machine into a cooling system for an RTX thirty sixty graphics card, using a beer fridge thermostat to hold it all together. The result is a sixty-two percent reduction in temperatures, with Cyberpunk twenty seventy-seven running at just twenty-two degrees Celsius. It leaks, apparently, but it works.
And for anyone watching their wallet ahead of Prime Day, Samsung's thirty-two inch Odyssey G fifty-five C gaming monitor has dropped forty-six percent to just one hundred eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. A one thousand R curved panel, one sixty-five hertz refresh rate, and AMD FreeSync support make this one of the more compelling budget monitor deals we've seen this year.
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