Hardware & Chips
NVIDIA RTX Spark Hits 6 OEMs, $2,899 Price Leak [2026]
NVIDIA and MediaTek have locked in the launch plan for RTX Spark, the AI-first chip platform set to reshape the Windows laptop market this fall. Six OEMs, ASUS,…
Tim Cook’s Last Day as Apple CEO: Ternus Takes Over [2026]
Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO is today, August 31, 2026, closing out a 15-year run that took the company from a $350 billion firm still mourning…
ASUS, MSI RTX Spark Laptops Sell Out, Order 100K More [2026]
ASUS and MSI have both burned through their first production runs of NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops before a single unit reached a retail shelf. According to a report…
DLSS 5 Craters to 4 FPS on RTX 30-Series GPUs [2026]
Leaked code for Nvidia’s next-generation upscaler is producing some of the ugliest frame-rate charts of the year, and this time the damage isn’t landing on old budget cards.…
OpenAI Buys, Anthropic Rents: Apple’s AI Server Pivot [2026]
OpenAI has spent the past several months buying tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information relayed by…
OpenAI Buys 10,000s of Macs as RTX Spark Sells Out [2026]
OpenAI has spent the past several months quietly buying up tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information,…
Nvidia Posts $96.2B Record Quarter as Rivals Circle [2026]
Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter of 2027 with $96.2 billion in revenue, more than double what it booked a year earlier, and the number landed at the…
DLSS 5 Modded to Run on RTX 4090, No Nvidia Fix [2026]
A leaked build of NVIDIA’s next-generation upscaler is running on hardware it was never meant to touch. Reports from TechPowerUp and GameGPU describe a patched DLSS 5 DLL,…
Nvidia Hikes AI Server Prices 15%+ on Memory Crunch [2026]
Nvidia has told the contract manufacturers that build its AI servers to expect price increases of more than 15% on systems shipping in early 2027, according to reports…
Nvidia Hub Deal Sparks Bias Fears at $12.9B Price [2026]
Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion move on Hugging Face has landed exactly the question the AI industry didn’t want to answer this week: can the world’s default home for…
