Instagram to test ‘unskippable’ ads, Nvidia Announces Rubin AI for 2026

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Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling. - Link

Nvidia announces plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025, and Blackwell's successor, Rubin, for 2026 that will use HBM4. - Link

AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, and others. - Link

Raspberry Pi plans to sell shares at £2.60 to £2.80 each in its London IPO, aiming to raise ~£157M; shareholder Arm has agreed to buy $35M more worth of shares. - Link

AMD says its fifth-gen EPYC Turin 3nm data center chips will launch in H2 2024, based on its Zen 5 architecture and featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads. - Link

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