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After years of the US casting doubt on Huawei tech for alleged security threats, now China gets a turn. The country’s Cyberspace Administration reportedly called Nvidia execs in to explain “loopholes and backdoor” vulnerabilities in the H20 AI chips designed specifically to sell in China. It follows an antitrust investigation opened last year.

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready Driver today, designed to improve performance in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Valorant’s Unreal Engine 5 upgrade. Valorant is moving to Unreal 5 on July 29th, which Nvidia says will introduce “additional content and changes.”

Nvidia has created yet another Cyberpunk 2077 graphics card. A special edition RTX 5090 has a Cyberpunk 2077 theme and it’s being given away as part of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX summer event. As VideoCardz points out, this is at least the sixth time that Nvidia has created a Cyberpunk-themed GPU, with a custom RTX 2080 Ti first appearing in 2020 at the game’s launch. Nvidia has Cyberpunk’d every GPU generation since then.

The company has been “assured” by the US government that licenses to sell its H20 GPU will be granted, and hopes to resume deliveries “soon” — along with launching a new RTX Pro GPU for China too.

When Nvidia’s share price rose beyond $164 on Wednesday morning, it was the first company to have a market cap of over $4 trillion. It closed the day up 1.8 percent at $162.88, leaving its current total at $3.97 trillion, leading Microsoft ($3.7 trillion) and Apple ($3.1 trillion).

In a video posted by Nintendo, Huang highlights some of the capabilities brought to the Switch 2 through its custom Nvidia chip:

Too early to see whether the RTX 5060 review debacle will wake gamers up, but blackscreens and melting power cables didn’t have a huge impact — Nvidia just reported record gaming revenue of $3.76 billion in Q1 2026 (aka February thru April).

In a 22-minute video, Gamers Nexus talks about “Nvidia’s last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus [Multi Frame Generation] 4X pressure from the company” and how “Nvidia has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS.”

Its recent updates addressed a slew of problems that have emerged following the launch of Nvidia’s RTX-50 series cards in January. But today’s 576.40 driver just includes a fix for some Asus displays booting to black screens, a stutter on LG TVs with G-Sync enabled, and “random stability issues” in Monster Hunter Wilds.

YouTuber Geekerwan has obtained what appears to be a Switch 2 motherboard component for about $150 on Xianyu, which he describes as a Chinese eBay equivalent.

In response to US restrictions on chip exports, Chinese companies have been trying to develop their own hardware to power generative AI, but so far, have trailed behind. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Huawei is not only preparing to ship more of its existing Ascend 910B and 910C chips, but also to start testing a new 910D AI processor.

This week’s two big new RPG releases are now both available on Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud streaming service. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has been added to GeForce Now today, alongside Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Both are on PC Game Pass, so you can even access them on GeForce Now through Microsoft’s subscription service.

The US government told Nvidia on April 9th that the company would need a license to export its H20 AI chip to China, Reuters and CNBC report.

CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the first keynote for the expo, kicking off at 11PM ET on May 18th. Computex takes place in Taipei between May 20th and 23rd with the theme “AI Next,” a space that Nvidia has unquestionably dominated these last few years as global AI developers scramble to obtain its advanced training chips.

Just look at VideoCardz’s homepage right now.

Two sources speaking with NPR say that after that dinner, in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was in attendance, the White House put on hold additional restrictions to curb sales of Nvidia’s nerfed (but still powerful) H20 AI chips to China. In January, Bloomberg reported that the Trump Administration was exploring the restrictions but was just in the early stages.

If you’re quick, you might be able to snag an MSI-branded RTX 5070 graphics card before they eventually sell out. The two-fan Shadow 2X OC configuration costs $549.99, a price that’s delightful to see given that RTX 50-series cards of all sorts have become difficult to find in stock.

Nvidia’s latest GPU launch had PC gamers talking about a “paper launch” after limited quantities seemed to sell out instantly, but as PC World and Tom’s Hardware point out, there is one place you can grab a 5080 or 5090: this week’s GTC 2025 Conference.

After Apple promised last month to invest $500 billion in the US in the wake of Trump’s recent tariffs, Nvidia is matching suit. CEO Jensen Huang suggests he may be able to splash a few hundred billion on US manufacturing: