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OpenAI says it has banned two AI-backed influence operations that spread geopolitical messages while hiding their origin: the Iranian one under the bylines of seven fake journalists, the Russian one behind a front think tank. A monitoring agent swallows this kind of source like any other: a byline is no substitute for checking who is behind it. openai.com/​index/​…

According to NVIDIA, PC applications are ready for RTX Spark, a single chip that brings together up to 128 GB of memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute (a quadrillion operations per second), whose laptops, announced last week by NVIDIA and Microsoft, go on sale on Friday, October 16. Windows PCs will be able to keep large open models in memory for their agents (see MXC, at the top of this issue). blogs.nvidia.com/​blog/​…

NVIDIA releases its whole Run:ai platform as open source, open to its customers, developers and partners. If you share graphics cards across several AI jobs, you can install it without a paid license; what remains paid is listed in the post. developer.nvidia.com/​blog/​…