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Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: anthropic, volta, nvidia

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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: anthropic, volta, nvidia

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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Julie Bort | tags: nvidia, open secure ai alliance, huging face

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu

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The AI Demand Bubble (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View All | tags: nvidia, openai, anthropic

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: amd mi300x, deepseek v4, hbm3

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AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jason Ma | tags: amazon, ai hyperscalers, nvidia

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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-03 | by Julie Bort | tags: sequoia, valar atomics, small modular reactors

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Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Brad Bourque | tags: samsung, m80f, tizen

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In a troubling sign, Nvidia RTX 50 series prices jump up to 30% in South Korea — TSMC wafer hikes and $20 GDDR7 modules push RTX 5090 past $5,100 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: nvidia, rtx 50 series, tsmc

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U.S.-Iran talks, OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, Best Buy's new CEO and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Alex Harring | tags: hugging face, openai, nvidia

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Gaming on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT and GTX 1650 Super in 2026 — upscaling makes low-end GPUs viable for esports and internet cafes (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: amd rx 6500 xt, nvidia gtx 1650 super, rdna 4

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GPU prices keep surging in 2026 — Lack of sale discounts and rising VRAM costs keep current-gen prices sky-high (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: nvidia, amd, intel

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GPU prices for current-gen Nvidia and AMD: Price increases, why have the prices not dropped, and can you still buy a cheap GPU? (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: nvidia, amd, gpu prices

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Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gtx 1080 ti, nvidia, pascal architecture

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Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: nixos, dgx, nvidia

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SpaceXAI says it will remove all 69 of its unpermitted turbine power generators, but expects process to take a year — trailer-mounted generators to be replaced by 1.2GW power plant (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: spacexai, colossus data centers, nvidia h200

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RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5060 ti, brother zhang, short pcb

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HP’s HyperX Omen 15 isn’t quite the budget-friendly gaming laptop its predecessor was (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: hyperx omen 15, nvidia rtx 5050, ces

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Alienware 15 vs. LOQ Essential 15: I compared both budget gaming laptops - it was close (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: alienware, lenovo, nvidia

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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Graphics Cards Could Get Even More Expensive, and It’s Not Just Nvidia (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: nvidia, graphics cards, pc gaming

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Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech's AI buildout has ballooning price tag (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Annie Palmer Jordan Novet Lora Kolodny | tags: ai spending, amazon, alphabet

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Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: moonshot, kimi, nvidia

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Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: nvidia, alibaba, moonshot

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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: lumentum, indium phosphide, silicon photonics

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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Google plans to produce up to 15 million AI chips by 2028, rivaling Nvidia's total accelerator volume (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: google, nvidia, tpu

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update: Mid-2026 Edition (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060