Nvidia GPUs ascendant, Anthropic fights back, xAI in trouble + more!

Duration: 08:45

Timestamps:

0:00 why? is a good question

0:09 Nvidia GPU monopoly

2:04 Anthropic to fight Pentagon

4:51 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:04 Apple blocks ByteDance-owned apps

5:47 Apple Music adds AI music tags

6:18 Macbook Neo benchmarks

6:58 Wikipedia AI translation issues

7:37 Roblox AI re-phrases bad chats

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

RAKING IN THE GREEN

PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079686/pc-graphics-cards-are-now-nearly-100-percent-nvidia.html

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-secured-94-percent-aib-gpu-market-share-q4-25/

These numbers come from Jon Peddie Research: https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/q425-pc-graphics-aib-shipments-decreased-4-4-from-last-quarter-to-11-million-units-with-a-cagr-to-2029-of-5-9/

Image: https://www.jonpeddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AIB1.png

Intel Arc manages 1% https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/great-news-for-intel-it-now-owns-fully-1-percent-of-the-gaming-gpu-market/

G-ForceIMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436339/

G-Force Game on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/319170/Disney_GForce/

Steam Hardware Survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/#:~:text=AMD%20Radeon(TM,%2D0.91%25

New leaks show Nvidia may be planning GeForce RTX 5050 with 9GB memory and a refresh of the 5060 based on the GB502 GPU seen in the RTX 5070

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-plans-geforce-rtx-5050-with-9gb-memory-and-96-bit-bus

https://www.techpowerup.com/347046/nvidia-reportedly-preparing-9-gb-geforce-rtx-5050-variant-with-gddr7

Twitter post on the 5050

https://x.com/Zed__Wang/status/2029240918474408342

Twitter post for the 5060

https://x.com/Zed__Wang/status/2029241799429242971

Project Helix: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/xbox-project-helix-reveal-next-gen

HEATED R-AI-VALRY

Anthropic vows to sue Pentagon over supply chain risk label

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5g3z3xe65o

Hegseth’s initial post declaring them a supply chain risk: https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070

Quote about the supply chain risk part

Dario’s post from yesterday: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Quote about it being Legally unsound

Seems like most people are coming down on Anthropic’s side here

BBC Article Above

Senator Gillibrand Quote from the BBC Article about it being shortsighted

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-says-anthropics-products-can-remain-available-to-customers-after-security-risk-designation.html

Quote highlight about microsoft’s position.

Which is good news for Anthropic because According to Jensen he’s cutting off his babies - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-is-pulling-back-from-openai-and-anthropic-but-his-explanation-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/

https://gizmodo.com/the-100-billion-openai-nvidia-deal-is-not-happening-2000729749

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/musk-fails-to-block-california-data-disclosure-law-he-fears-will-ruin-xai/

The requirements of the law (passed in late 2024) are for AI companies to share their training data: https://www.dglaw.com/ai-legal-updates-californias-ai-training-data-transparency-law-takes-effect/

But Musk pushed back citing trade secrets, free speech and also that people would be bored:

Original Source: XAI’s Challenge: https://law-ai.org/xais-challenge-to-californias-ai-training-data-transparency-law-ab2013/

Quote showing first and fifth amendment

It wasn’t enough to convince Judge Jesus:

Quote from the ars technica article

Quote about him having to comply

QUICK BITS

ANOTHER APP BYTES THE DUST

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps

https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-apps-are-no-longer-available-in-us-app-stores/

Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/GgfuK

Geo blocking downloads - https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/05/apple-reportedly-geoblocking-downloads-and-updates-of-bytedance-owned-apps-in-the-us/

Archived article: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119060555/https://support.apple.com/en-us/121596?cid=mc-ols-bytedance-article_121596-os_ui-12132024

I BRAKE FOR CLANK-ETTES

Apple Music Rolling Out Disclosure Tags for AI-Made Songs

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/apple-music-ai-transparency-tags/

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-music-launches-ai-transparency-tags-but-only-if-labels-and-distributors-choose-to-declare-them/

Four different categories of AI Tags: https://www.billboard.com/pro/apple-music-introduces-ai-song-tagging/#:~:text=Below%20are%20the,and%20standalone%20videos.%E2%80%9D

ALL I’M OFFERING IS THE TRUTH…NOTHING MORE

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/macbook-neo-first-benchmarks/

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/macbooks/macbook-neo-benchmarks-leak-how-does-it-compare-to-iphone

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16884902

WIKI-SLOP-IA

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079595/wikipedia-has-an-ai-translation-problem.html

Wikipedia does have rules against this, but they keep using OKA anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Large_language_models

Its pretty bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1332393944&ref=404media.co

Spot checks section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive378?ref=404media.co#Spot_checks

They are gonna fact check the first AI, with another AI

https://lmg.gg/AIl9Z

MODER-AI-TION TYCOON

Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/roblox-launches-real-time-ai-chat-rephrasing-to-filter-out-banned-language/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-the-fork-robloxs-ai-to-replace-swearing-with-more-civil-language

Statement:

https://ir.roblox.com/news/news-details/2026/Roblox-Launches-Real-Time-Chat-Rephrasing-to-Maintain-Civility-and-Gameplay-Flow/default.aspx

Apparently, Roblox worked with their “Teen Council” to create this system, and it can do cool things like change “Hurry TF up!” to just plain old “Hurry up!”

Teen Council: https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/09/2026-roblox-teen-council

Hurry up quote: https://lmg.gg/ZJKE5