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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. My Spotify playlists are undergoing a British invasion this week. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m listening to: PinkPantheress, Lola Young and Evita in London.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump announced this week that two US chipmakers would tithe 15% of their revenue from sales in China to the US government. Paying for the license to sell to Chinese customers represents an unprecedented deal.<\/p>\n
My colleague Helen Davidson reports from Taipei:<\/p>\n
The chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenue from advanced chips sold to China in return for export licences to the key market.<\/em><\/p>\n The arrangement will lead to Nvidia giving 15% of its revenue from Chinese sales of its H20 chips, and AMD giving 15% of revenue from Chinese sales of its MI308 chips, according to reports citing US officials.<\/em><\/p>\n The H20 and MI308 chips were banned from sale to China in April, despite the lower-powered H20 being designed specifically to abide by restrictions introduced by the Biden administration.<\/em><\/p>\n Nvidia\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang, head of the most valuable company in the world at $4.44tn, has been lobbying the White House for months to open up sales in China, where the US still prohibits sales of Nvidia\u2019s most advanced chips over national security concerns. In July, Trump relaxed some restrictions imposed by Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n The deal with Nvidia and AMD seems as much about personally appealing to Trump as it does about generating revenue for the US government. The agreement has all the trappings of Trump entering into business with the chipmakers.<\/p>\n In a way, it\u2019s a version of a playbook other major tech companies have been trying out as Trump is dramatically changing the international business landscape. Apple announced a $100bn investment commitment in US manufacturing. CEO Tim Cook, who had made the journey to the White House himself, presented Trump with a glass trophy (including 24 karat gold base) designating the president a graduate of the Apple Manufacturing Academy, launched in Michigan the week prior.<\/p>\n During his meeting with Cook, Trump said he would levy a 100% tariff on semiconductor chips, which could set both Apple and Nvidia back billions. However, the president said: \u201cIf you\u2019re building in the United States of America, there\u2019s no charge.\u201d<\/p>\n Both Nvidia and Apple are likely to be exempted from the tariffs. Each appears to have paid for the privilege \u2013 Apple with its domestic investment, Nvidia with its revenue-sharing agreement.<\/p>\n <\/span> Photograph: VCG\/Getty Images<\/p>\n OpenAI launched the new version of the artificial intelligence that underpins ChatGPT last week. There are quite a few aspects of the release to consider to understand it fully \u2013 what the company is saying, where the AI race between tech giants stands, the model\u2019s new capabilities and pitfalls, the environmental impact \u2013 so I\u2019ve rounded up the Guardian\u2019s coverage of GPT-5 below.<\/p>\n OpenAI said GPT-5 has marked improved coding and writing capabilities over its predecessor. My colleague Dan Milmo reports:<\/p>\n OpenAI has claimed to have taken a \u201csignificant step\u201d towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT, but has admitted there are still \u201cmany things\u201d missing in its quest to create a system able to do humans\u2019 jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, called the model a \u201csignificant step forward\u201d to achieving the theoretical state of AGI, which the startup defines as a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work \u2013 or, in other words, can do their jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n Read the full story on the unveiling of GPT-5:<\/strong> OpenAI says latest ChatGPT upgrade is big step forward but still can\u2019t do humans\u2019 jobs<\/p>\n The race towards artificial general intelligence is running hot, with tech giants pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the technology, but like OpenAI, Google and Meta acknowledge they have not reached that goal yet. Dan Milmo and Dara Kerr report: \u201c[It is] missing something quite important, many things quite important,\u201d said Altman, such as the model\u2019s inability to \u201ccontinuously learn\u201d even after its launch. In other words, these systems are impressive but they have yet to crack the autonomy that would allow them to do a full-time job.<\/em><\/p>\n Last month, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook parent Meta, said development of superintelligence \u2013 another theoretical state of AI where a system far exceeds human cognitive abilities \u2013 is \u201cnow in sight\u201d. Google\u2019s AI unit on Tuesday outlined its next step to AGI by announcing an unreleased model that trains AIs to interact with a convincing simulation of the real world.<\/em><\/p>\n Read the full story: <\/strong>\u2018It\u2019s missing something\u2019: AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n How we know OpenAI\u2019s new model is not an omniscient presence that will lord over all humanity: GPT-5 is making some goofy mistakes. It struggles with maps in a way a 10-year-old might. Per my colleague Josh Taylor: when Guardian Australia asked the latest model of ChatGPT to identify the number of Rs in Australia\u2019s states and territories, it could identify those which did. But the AI also believed Northern Territory had just three Rs not five. When asked to produce it on a map, spelled the territory as \u201cNorthan Territor\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Read the full story: <\/strong>OpenAI unveils ChatGPT-5 and its hyped \u2018PhD level\u2019 intelligence struggled with basic spelling and geography<\/p>\n GPT-5 is a more powerful model than its predecessor, meaning it will consume more resources to answer each query. Here\u2019s what experts told Aisha Kehoe Down: \u201cA more complex model like GPT-5 consumes more power both during training and during inference. It\u2019s also targeted at long thinking \u2026 I can safely say that it\u2019s going to consume a lot more power than GPT-4,\u201d said Rakesh Kumar, a professor at the University of Illinois, currently working on the energy consumption of computation and AI models.<\/em><\/p>\n Given recent reports that ChatGPT handles 2.5bn requests a day, the total consumption of GPT-5 could reach the daily electricity demand of 1.5m US homes.<\/em><\/p>\n Read the full story: <\/strong>OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5\u2019s energy use. It could be higher than past models<\/p>\n <\/span>An AOL home page in Palo Alto, California, in May 2009.<\/span> Photograph: Paul Sakuma\/AP<\/p>\n Surprise: AOL, formerly known as America Online, was still offering dial-up internet service in 2025. My colleague Edward Helmore reports:<\/p>\n The hisses, pings and screeches that introduced millions of Americans to the nascent online world are to be formally retired when AOL\u2019s dial-up internet shuts down in late September.<\/em><\/p>\n At its peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL had over 23 million subscribers in the US, making it the dominant internet service provider at the time.<\/em><\/p>\n Currently, only a small fraction of US households \u2013 about 175,000 \u2013 still rely on dial-up for internet access and web browser platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2013, Pew Research found that just 3% of American households used dial-up internet. The 2025 figure represents less than 0.5% of the current population.<\/p>\n What once seemed ubiquitous in the US and UK is now a relic and only a partially important piece of the history of the internet. Many parts of the world that are now online never experienced \u2013 perhaps endured might be the more apt word \u2013 dial-up internet. They jumped straight to broadband, wifi or the mobile internet, a phenomenon known as technological leapfrogging. If you\u2019re feeling nostalgic for the early days of the internet, though, you can listen to the classic, grating sound of dialing into the web via Wikipedia\u2019s page on the subject.<\/p>\n Hello, and welcome to TechScape. My Spotify playlists are undergoing a British invasion this week. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m listening to: PinkPantheress, Lola Young and Evita in London. Privileges with the president Donald Trump announced this week that two US chipmakers would tithe 15% of their revenue from sales in China to the US government. 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End of an era: AOL to discontinue its dial-up internet service after 30 years<\/h2>\n
The wider TechScape<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"