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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Is Official and Starts at $2,599
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Yesterday the Surface Laptop Ultra was a spec sheet Microsoft had confirmed nothing about. Today Microsoft put the machine on a stage in San Francisco and confirmed nearly all of it, along with the one number the leak never had. The entry configuration costs $2,599.
Microsoft calls this its first "builder class" PC, built for developers and AI researchers rather than for people who want a nice Windows laptop. At $2,599 to start, it sits well outside normal Surface territory. You do not buy this one because your old laptop got slow.
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Nearly Every Surface Laptop Ultra Spec Just Leaked
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Microsoft goes on stage tomorrow for a laptop whose spec sheet is already sitting on the internet. Most of it, anyway. The one number that decides whether any of it matters, the price, is still missing.
Windows Central's Zac Bowden has published what he describes as nearly all the remaining details on the Surface Laptop Ultra, sourced from people familiar with Microsoft's plans. Every figure below comes from that reporting, not from Microsoft. What Microsoft has actually confirmed is the event: October 7, in San Francisco, livestreamed, with Windows, Surface and Nvidia's RTX Spark on the agenda. It has not put its name to a single core count, memory tier or brightness number.
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Apple Reportedly Wants to Sell M8 Ultra AI Servers, and Nvidia May Be Wiring Them Together
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Rumors, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has not sold a server since the Xserve was discontinued in 2011. According to a report from The Information, it is thinking about going back, with a machine built for AI developers, businesses and governments. Apple has confirmed none of it, and the earliest anyone expects the thing to exist is 2029.
The report describes two configurations: a smaller one with two M8 Ultra chips clustered together, and a larger one with four. They would be built for inference, the running of trained models rather than the training of them. Apple has reportedly been at it for about a year, with backing from John Ternus while he was still running hardware engineering. He is CEO now. The report also says the project could be scrapped before it ships.
Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe. Lucid Built 18,378 Cars All Last Year.
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Bolt wants at least 25,000 driverless Lucid cars working European streets. Lucid built 18,378 cars in all of 2025: every model, every market, every customer on earth combined.
That is the deal the two companies announced Thursday morning. Lucid's stock went up on it.
NVIDIA Is Selling RTX 50 GPUs at MSRP at PAX West, If You Can Find the Right Guy
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The cheapest way to buy a GeForce RTX 5090 at $1,999 this weekend involves a PAX West badge, a walk through the Seattle Convention Center, and watching one Nvidia employee's X account closely enough to know which hallway he is standing in.
Nvidia is selling RTX 50-series Founders Edition cards at list price, in person, at PAX West right now. That's the RTX 5090 at $1,999, the RTX 5080 at $999, and the RTX 5070 at $549, while supplies last. That last clause is doing a lot of work.
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Ships September 3, and It Changes What the Artists Drew
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Every version of DLSS so far has been a clever way to draw the picture developers already designed. Render fewer pixels, let the AI fill in the rest, get your frame rate back. DLSS 5 is different. It reaches into the finished frame and adds detail that nobody at the studio put there.
It ships September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, it runs only on RTX 50-series cards, and Nvidia calls it 3D-guided neural rendering. The pitch is that it puts back what real-time budgets force studios to cut: light scattering under skin, light passing through hair and foliage, contact shadows, ambient occlusion. The reception so far has been rough. Early demos built on Resident Evil: Requiem and Starfield drew a pile of complaints about faces that landed square in the uncanny valley, and a leaked build that modders bolted onto older games made the criticism louder.
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DLSS 5 Leaked Out of NBA 2K27, and Modders Already Have It Running in Control
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Mods / Hacks, PC / Laptop, Video Games,
A basketball game is a strange place to find Nvidia's next graphics technology, and yet here we are. NBA 2K27 went into early access this week carrying a file called nvngx_dlssnr.dll, short for DLSS Neural Rendering. Developer Renan Maniero spotted it. Within hours, modders had pulled it out and forced it into games it was never meant to touch.
DLSS 5 has not launched. Nvidia announced it in March and said it would arrive this fall, and a library buried in a basketball build is not a release. What people are running today is an unfinished piece of software that escaped early, injected into titles with no official support for it, at settings nobody outside Nvidia fully understands yet.
OpenAI Built Its Own AI Chip, Jalapeño, and It’s Beating Nvidia on Power
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
You know that pause when you ask a chatbot something and the answer sits there, one word at a time, while you stare at it? That pause is inference, and it's the most expensive thing in AI right now. OpenAI just showed off a chip built to kill it.
The chip is called Jalapeño. OpenAI published its first benchmark numbers at the Hot Chips conference this week. Against Nvidia's Blackwell systems, OpenAI says Jalapeño does 1.5x to 1.9x more work per watt and responds 1.7x to 3.6x faster end to end.
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Nvidia’s Groq Chip Is in Full Production, and It Exists to Fix One Annoying Thing
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Artificial Intelligence,
When you hand an AI coding agent a task and it sits there for eleven seconds before doing anything, you're feeling a very specific bottleneck. Not training. Not raw compute. Token generation speed, which is how fast a model produces its answer one piece at a time. Nvidia just put a chip into full production that does almost nothing else.
Announced at Hot Chips 2026, the Groq 3 LPX is an inference accelerator that extends Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. It's also the first real product to emerge from Nvidia's $20 billion Groq acquisition, and Nebius is the first AI cloud signed up to run it.
Nvidia Just Paid $6 Billion for a Startup It Didn’t Buy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
Poolside spent three and a half years building AI coding models, then hit a wall that had nothing to do with talent. In a letter to shareholders reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the company says it had a six-week window at the end of last year to raise $2 billion for a 40,000-GPU cluster coming online in January. It missed the window. It lost the cluster.
Last week, Nvidia paid Poolside $6 billion. Not to buy the company. To license the software Poolside used to build its models, hire more than 100 of its engineers, and take a $1 billion stake at a $12 billion pre-money valuation.
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