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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter urging a slowdown in AI development over safety concerns, a stance OpenAI's Sam Altman and other industry leaders publicly backed over the weekend. The comments rattled markets Monday, sending shares of AMD, Nvidia, Intel and Sandisk lower in premarket trading and dragging down broader indices.
HP has begun taking orders for its ZGX Fury AI workstation, a system based on Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip pairing a Blackwell Ultra GPU with a 72-core Grace CPU. The machine offers 748GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, and ships alongside a new partnership between HP, Red Hat, and Nvidia to run Red Hat AI Factory software on the hardware.
Global markets sold off Monday after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other prominent tech figures publicly urged a slowdown in AI capability development. Chipmakers and hyperscalers bore the brunt: Samsung, SK Hynix, ASML, Nokia, Infineon, Micron, Intel and Nvidia all dropped sharply, while SoftBank fell 10% in Tokyo trading. The rout followed a heated online dispute sparked by a former Anthropic/OpenAI researcher's resignation over safety fears, which escalated when an Anthropic safety researcher estimated a greater than 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity within a decade.
NVIDIA showcased DLSS 5 at GTC using footage from Resident Evil Requiem and Starfield, but viewers noticed the upscaling gave characters smoothed, glossy skin resembling a beauty filter rather than photorealism. Artists including Karla Ortiz criticized the technology for overriding developers' intentional art direction, while Capcom reportedly didn't know its game was used in the demo. CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the criticism as 'completely wrong' during a GTC Q&A, further fueling online anger.
A modder known as dashdogy has released a workaround that unlocks Nvidia's DLSS Multi Frame Generation feature, normally exclusive to RTX 50-series cards, on older RTX 40-series and earlier GPUs. Tom's Hardware tested the mod in Cyberpunk 2077 and confirmed it genuinely boosts perceived smoothness beyond the officially supported 2X multiplier, complete with the same visual artifacts seen on official 50-series hardware.
A Reddit user acquired two old cryptocurrency mining rigs left in a basement, containing a total of 12 Zotac RTX 3070 graphics cards along with an MSI motherboard, a 1000W power supply, RAM and SSDs. Despite years of storage, the hardware showed only minor wear, including some silicone bleeding from aging thermal pads, but appeared largely salvageable.
Apple has re-entered TIME's World's Best Companies ranking at No. 3 with an overall score of 93.16, a year after being absent from the list entirely. The 2026 list is led by Nvidia at 97.51 and Cigna at 94.37, with scores based on employee satisfaction, three-year revenue growth, and sustainability transparency.
Dell Technologies stock surged 10% on Friday after RBC Capital Markets began coverage with an outperform rating and a $640 price target. The move adds to a rally that has already lifted Dell shares nearly 350% in 2026, driven by its growing role supplying Nvidia-based servers to cloud and enterprise customers building out AI infrastructure.
Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology, an established Chinese OEM/ODM, is listing a customized GeForce RTX 5090 with 96GB of memory—triple the stock 32GB—for $3,888 on Alibaba, undercutting the standard U.S. price by roughly 35%. The listing contains dubious specs like GDDR6X memory and 14 Gbps speeds, raising questions about accuracy, though the underlying GB202 chip used in Nvidia's 96GB RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell suggests such a memory configuration is technically feasible.
Jon Peddie Research reports desktop discrete graphics card shipments reached 12.5 million units in Q2 2026, the highest quarterly total since early 2022, even as prices climbed to record levels. Nvidia shipped about 11.25 million of those units for roughly 90% market share, while AMD shipped around one million cards for about 8%.
At the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang repeated the company's guidance that revenue could climb 70% year-over-year next year, building on roughly $400 billion expected this fiscal year to around $680 billion. He described Nvidia's GPU systems as massive, multimillion-dollar installations requiring airplanes to ship, and noted 27% month-over-month order growth for its combined Grace CPU-Blackwell GPU systems.
Brazilian YouTube channel TecLab modified a Galax HOF OC LAB RTX 5090 to run on three 8-pin Mini-Fit Jr. power connectors instead of Nvidia's dual 16-pin design, by rewiring the Sense 0 and Sense 1 pins to fool the card into recognizing the new configuration. The card still hit its full 575W TDP and ran stable at 3.4GHz across load tests up to 900W and 120A peak current, with temperatures staying around 35°C and no firmware changes needed.