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NVIDIA Details How DLSS 5 Developer Controls Tame AI Over-Rendering

NVIDIA just published a new developer-focused blog post detailing how game makers can control DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering, and while most of the information in the post will be familiar to anyone who has been following DLSS 5 closely (and, indeed, to anyone who read our launch coverage) it offers a useful look at why NVIDIA gives developers so many knobs to control the technology in the first place.

As we covered ahead of launch, developers can select from multiple DLSS 5 models, adjust Structure Intensity and Tone Intensity, and use both semantic AI masking as well as engine-level masks to control where the effect is applied. DLSS 5 can also make use of richer input data such as ray-traced or path-traced lighting, which NVIDIA says produces substantially more accurate results. The one particularly interesting new tidbit in this latest developer post is that Visual Concepts apparently...

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Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI

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Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents

Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by Coatue, at a $4.8bn

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Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips

Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a tool that speeds up its

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AI shopping passes 50% of US consumers for the first time, NIQ says

Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the

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Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe

Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents

Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips

AI shopping passes 50% of US consumers for the first time, NIQ says