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Walmart is selling MSI's Gaming Trio GeForce RTX 5090 for $4,299 as part of its GeForce Week promotion, a price well below the $8,000+ third-party listings currently common for the card. The RTX 5090 remains Nvidia's top gaming GPU, still selling far above its original $1,999 MSRP due to scarce supply and demand from AI workloads.
An Android Authority writer detailed how his family, after briefly trying an iPad, ended up adopting Walmart's Onn tablet lineup, including the Onn Core 7-inch and Onn 11 Pro models. He found the devices, priced between roughly $97 and $388, offer aluminum builds and solid performance rarely seen in that budget range from other unbranded competitors.
In a Fortune commentary, Zocdoc founder and CEO Oliver Kharraz argues that Walmart's shuttered clinic network and IBM's sold-off Watson Health division both collapsed because they treated healthcare as a technology problem rather than a tangle of misaligned incentives and regulations. Walmart closed 51 clinics and its virtual care unit in 2024 after reimbursement and cost pressures made the business unsustainable, while IBM sold most of Watson Health in 2022 after sinking roughly $4 billion into it.
A group of U.S. senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether shopping bots and AI systems used by Walmart and Amazon are misrepresenting products as 'Made in America.' The request comes alongside other regulatory shifts, including a U.S. regulator giving tokenized stocks initial approval and credit card firms building AI agents to handle consumer purchases on shoppers' behalf.
Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott have asked the FTC to investigate whether Amazon's Alexa and Walmart's Sparky shopping chatbots adequately surface information about domestically made products. The request cites a Columbia University Center for Law and the Economy study finding both assistants initially struggled or declined to confirm US-origin claims, though they could answer questions about foreign-made goods and eventually provided US-made results after prompts were reworded.
In a Fast Company interview, Walmart U.S. President and CEO David Guggina described how the retailer is combining its extensive store footprint, supply chain infrastructure, e-commerce operations and customer data into one integrated system. He argued this convergence lets Walmart respond faster to shifting customer needs and extract greater value from its existing assets.
Walmart is rolling out AI-driven product recommendations, quicker delivery options and a broader selection of budget-friendly clothing to attract more online shoppers. The retailer says these changes are already showing results in customer engagement and sales growth. Executives frame the effort as part of a larger strategy to embed Walmart more deeply into everyday consumer habits.
Walmart is offering a $10 discount on physical preorders of Metroid Ravenous, the upcoming 2D side-scrolling entry in Nintendo's Metroid series for Switch 2, bringing the price down to $59.88 from $69.99. The game, a sequel following the events of Metroid Dread, is set to launch January 28th, 2027, though it's unclear how long the discounted preorder price will remain available.
Walmart is offering a $560 discount on CyberPowerPC's all-white Gamer Supreme desktop, bringing it down to $1,859.99. The build pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD, aimed at 1440p gaming.
Walmart CEO John Furner is leading an aggressive effort to embed AI and automation throughout the company's 5,200 U.S. stores, aiming to speed up operations and compete more directly with Amazon. The initiative was highlighted alongside a lavish company event featuring performers like Benson Boone, Shaboozey and Pink, underscoring Walmart's broader push to modernize its image and operations simultaneously.
Fast Company's latest coverage examines how major companies including Walmart, Meta, Anthropic, and Adidas are ramping up the pace at which they adopt and deploy AI tools across their operations. The piece follows an earlier editor's note describing executives as struggling to keep pace with AI-driven change, based on a CEO survey the publication conducted.
Walmart is offering the MSI Cyborg 15 gaming laptop for $1,049, a $250 discount from its regular price. The machine pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM and DLSS multi-frame generation with an eight-core Intel Core 5 210H processor, 16GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 512GB Gen 4 SSD. It also features a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate.