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Walmart is selling a refreshed HP Omen 35L desktop with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU, an Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for $1,899.99. The same configuration lists for $3,639.99 on HP's own site, making the Walmart price over $1,700 cheaper.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the New York Times' Ezra Klein that AI companies unable to control the systems they build should cease operating, arguing developers already have the power to withhold unsafe products before release. He made the remarks amid pushes by OpenAI, Anthropic and others for tighter regulation of advanced models and autonomous agents, citing an incident in which an OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face, a platform Nvidia now owns.
A Show HN post introduces a tool that automatically generates, tests, benchmarks and refines CUDA GPU kernels from a workload description. It uses an LLM agent via LangGraph to propose code and launch-configuration changes, a C++/NVRTC harness to compile and run candidates, and Python to validate outputs against NumPy references, keeping only the fastest kernel that passes all correctness checks. The project was developed on Windows with an RTX 3060 Laptop GPU and requires Python 3.12+, CMake, a C++17 compiler and an OpenAI API key.
Korean outlet QuasarZone tested the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition running Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with DLSS 5 enabled, recording peak power draw near 650W and a 16-pin (12VHPWR) connector temperature of 91.7 degrees Celsius, higher than the GPU die itself. The RTX 5080 also showed a temperature rise with DLSS 5 on, though smaller in magnitude than the 5090's.
Tesla held an invite-only launch event in Sparks, Nevada, marking the start of high-volume production of its Tesla Semi truck, first unveiled as a concept in 2017. Vehicle engineering VP Lars Moravy confirmed the long-range version will travel roughly 500 miles per charge, with a standard version rated at about 325 miles. Elon Musk appeared only in a pre-recorded video, having skipped the event to attend a White House state dinner.
On the Ezra Klein Show, Huang was presented with a Chinese study of 26,000 students showing that AI use correlated with declining long-term exam performance and eroded basic math skills like long division and multiplication tables. When asked whether this cognitive decline matters, Huang did not offer reassurance and appeared to accept the tradeoff as acceptable.
In an interview with The New York Times' Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that if AI labs cannot contain their experiments and those experiments risk harming the world, the labs should be shut down. He argued the potential civil and criminal liabilities from uncontained AI testing would be too great for society to bear.
In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI will require heavy fossil fuel use in the near term because renewable energy capacity is insufficient, likening the resulting pain to surgery necessary to save a patient. He also criticized the US for not building enough fossil fuel plants to meet AI's energy demands.
Micron has marked its 2GB (16Gb) GDDR7 memory chips, in both 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps variants, as End of Life on its website, according to an X post from UNIKO's Hardware. The chips had only recently entered production and shipped on a limited number of Nvidia cards, including retail versions of the GeForce RTX 5060, with Samsung and SK Hynix supplying the bulk of GDDR7 for the RTX 50 lineup.
A 3D artist bought what they thought was an Asus 30th-anniversary edition RTX 5090 from a used marketplace, only to discover it carried Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's autograph instead. Rather than use the card, they sold it, and it is now consigned to Bonhams auction house, with bidding scheduled for Oct. 4-14, 2026 and an estimate of $10,000-$15,000.
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said slowing down AI development is unrealistic and downplayed fears that AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity, calling that risk extremely small. His stance was noted as aligning closely with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's view, which contrasts with more cautious warnings from the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI.
CyberPowerPC is offering pre-built gaming PCs containing Nvidia RTX 5070, 5080 and 5090 Founders Edition GPUs on Walmart, timed to Nvidia's GeForce Week promotion running September 21-27. The builds are discounted between roughly $580 and over $1,300 off their listed prices, though supplies are limited.