Westworld For Real

Welcome to the tech we write home for Tuesday, 03/17/2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, all the headlines from NVIDIA's big event yesterday, can Apple make fetch happen with foldable phones? Because nobody else seems to be able to do it. One hour deliveries is the new screw it, we're doing five razor blades and the robots are really coming to Disney theme parks right now. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Nvidia held a big event yesterday and announced a whole bunch of things. For example, the Nvidia GRAC three LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 GRAC three LPUs, a a 125 gigabytes of SRAM, and 40 Pbps of SRAM bandwidth available in the second half of this year. Also, Nemo Claw, which combines the Open Claw agent platform with components of NVIDIA's agent toolkit to add privacy and security controls, also a liquid cooled server rack with 256 Verus CPUs, each of which features 88 custom Olympus cores, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Then there was this. Just months after announcing DLSS 4.5 at CES, NVIDIA has unveiled its next major upscaling technology for graphics, the DLSS five. The company is doubling down on AI for this next iteration claiming DLSS five, quote, infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials using a real time neural rendering model when it arrives this fall. Quoting and gadget. So what does this mean in practice? In an on stage demo at NVIDIA's GTC twenty twenty six keynote, CEO Jensen Huang showed off the technology with Resident Evil Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, and Starfield. DLSS five adds a noticeable amount of detail to a character's hair and skin tone, but it also appears it's being compared to those games without any DLSS features turned on. It's unclear how much of a difference it makes compared to DLSS 4.5 with path tracing and all of its features turned on. DLSS five takes a game's color and motion vectors for each frame as input and uses an AI model to infuse the scene with photo real lighting and materials that are anchored to source three d content and consistent from frame to frame, NVIDIA said in a blog post. The company also notes that the technology runs in real time and it works at up to four k, end quote. But, quoting Engadget, you can sum up the gamer response to Nvidia's DLSS five announcement with the ever relevant follow-up four meme. Everyone disliked that. Across social media and Reddit last night, I couldn't find anyone who's genuinely positive about the potential for DLSS five, which uses AI to add photorealistic lighting and materials to in game models and environments. Instead, it's mostly complaints about the feature being another avenue for AI slop. And you know what? I agree. It's not unusual to see gamers being reflexively angry about new technology on the Internet especially when it's being pitched by NVIDIA as the biggest breakthrough in computer graphics since …