NVIDIA Delivers Day-1 Support For DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma Open Model Across RTX & DGX Platforms, 150 Tokens/s With DGX Spark

NVIDIA's entire RTX/DGX lineups are getting full support for Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma Open AI model.

The DiffusionGemma model is an open model designed to offer speedy text generation, and with its launch, NVIDIA is announcing support across its RTX and DGX lineups. What's even better is that while DiffusionGemma is fast, NVIDIA's optimizations for the model and its hardware make it even faster.

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Intel’s Project Firefly Takes The Best of Phones To Build Laptops In A Slim 12.9mm Metal Chassis With No Vents

Intel explains Project Firefly and why it matters for the mainstream market for users on a budget.

Team Blue has been doing amazing since the launch of Panther Lake, aka Core Ultra Series 3, but perhaps it's not the only processor stack the company is trying to expand to the mainstream market. It appears that Intel wants to target the "budget" segment where premium devices often appear missing, which is why the Wildcat Lake exists. The Wildcat Lake is essentially a downgraded Panther Lake stack where the processors are stripped

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Surreal 3D Platformer Bradley the Badger from Former Mario Rabbids and Red Dead Developers to be Published by Focus Entertainment

The Game Awards 2025 was packed with a bunch of show-stopping announcements and reveals across games we knew about and brand new titles we'd never seen before. From the latter category, the most intriguing game at the show was Bradley the Badger , a new game from former Mario Rabbids and Red Dead Redemption developers at a new studio called Day 4 Night . Though the game didn't have a publisher at the time, it does now, as Focus Entertainment picks up Day 4 Night's

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Apple’s New CoreAI Engine Barely Edges Out Its Own MLX Framework At Realistic 8B Model Sizes, Despite Being 2.47x Faster On Tiny Models

Apple has finally debuted CoreAI , which is a successor to its CoreML engine that had reigned supreme for around 9 years, bringing with it format-agnostic inferencing and support for large-model memory footprints. Even so, initial tests are painting a much more nuanced picture of Apple's new AI framework and, in turn, its on-device models.

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple launched its CoreML machine-learning framework back in 2017 to primarily run smaller, static

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Playground Games Debuts 30min of Fable Gameplay, Showing Off What Players can Expect as they Explore Albion

Hot off the heels of a new story trailer featuring the game's antagonist and a release date reveal , developer Playground Games has suddenly dropped a 30-minute gameplay demo for Fable . The demo takes players through the town of Silverbrook in the game's magical setting of Albion , and shows off a bit of how its morality and reputation system works based on your actions.

The demo mostly shows what it's like when you're trying to develop a character with a reputation for kindness, though narrators

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Resident Evil Veronica Producer Quashes Down First-Person Fears, Promises Claire’s Remake Will Mirror RE2’s Survival Loop

Following the unveiling of Resident Evil Veronica at the recent Summer Game Fest 2026, CAPCOM was also available to conduct media presentations about the game and answer questions from the press in a roundtable format. Wccftech attended one of those, where producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi clarified several newsworthy details about the highly anticipated remake of 2000's Code Veronica, which the studio regards in the same way as the numbered entries. The game will launch at some point in 2027 for PC, PlayStation 5,

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Siri AI Is Great For Apple To Maintain Competitiveness, But The Numbers Show That It Won’t Break Your Purchasing Decision

A torrent of complaints from the masses finally led to Apple bringing its revamped version of its voice assistant, Siri AI, to compatible models, but this decision was merely to remove an objective from its bucket list rather than rolling something out that would bolster its sales. Despite its usefulness, we doubt that the feature will play a pivotal role in deciding your next smartphone purchases, and the proof is in the numbers.

Due to regulatory obstacles, China isn’t going to be one of Apple’s first markets to

Siri AI won't make or break your future iPhone purchase

ASUS Zenbook A14 “Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme” Laptop Review – Shockingly Light-Weight With A Super-Fast CPU

Last year, Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs . These SoCs promised some big uplifts over the competition and the first-generation X Elite chips. With the first laptops rolling out in the market now, we decided to reach out to Qualcomm and ASUS to send us a 14" design to see if the laptop holds up to those claims.

In terms of specifications, the ASUS Zenbook A14 is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoC. This is the flagship processor within

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ProbablyMonsters’ Crimson Moon and Nekome Nazi Hunter Pick the two Busiest Release Windows in 2026 and 2027

Nekmoe: Nazi Hunter and Crimson Moon , two games from the independent developer and publisher ProbablyMonsters , now both have release windows following their appearance during Summer Game Fest 2026's Play Days event. While Crimson Moon is seemingly right around the corner, arriving at some point in September 2026 , which is quickly becoming the busiest month of the year for game releases, Nekome Nazi Hunter isn't faring any better with its early 2027 release window.

Beginning with Crimson Moon, a

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CAPCOM Reworks Dragon’s Dogma 2 Ahead of Dark Arisen Launch, Tackling Travel, Economy, and Years of Player Complaints

Today, CAPCOM released the first of two planned free updates for Dragon's Dogma 2 that will pave the road for the upcoming launch of the Dark Arisen expansion , set for October 9 (when the game also launches on Nintendo Switch 2 ). The patch introduces a wide-ranging set of improvements across travel, pawns, the interface, shops, and combat stability.

The biggest convenience feature is easily the addition of t he Eternal Ferrystone , which can now be obtained automatically after speaking with Brant during the quest Seat

A 'Title Update Overview' for 'Dragon's Dogma II' details improvements on June 9 and August with quality of life and system updates, ending with a launch on October 9.
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