NVIDIA is holding launch events around the world with partners for RTX Spark, a Windows PC platform it pitches at creators, gamers and AI agents. The launch is set for the day after the announcement.
TSMC posted a record quarter but cannot make chips for everyone. Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom and AMD are competing hard for its production capacity.
Signs of distress at AI cloud provider CoreWeave deepened on Thursday, with its credit default swaps reaching distressed levels as investors grow wary of AI-related debt.
A Frandroid journalist tested whether an AI model running entirely on a laptop with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip could replace ChatGPT during an 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Paris. It worked for answering questions, but not yet for everything else, and battery life was a constraint.
Nvidia has officially detailed its new RTX Spark platform, which aims to bring AI into the home and run it locally.
Cerebras argues that agentic workflows make speed a precondition for whole classes of AI applications. The chipmaker, which raised $5.5 billion in its May 2026 IPO, built its business on much faster processors.