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AMD is making a play for the mid-range gaming market, dropping the Radeon RX nine thousand seventy GRE to four hundred ninety-nine dollars at Newegg. The card was already a strong competitor at five forty-nine, and this nine percent price cut puts real pressure on Nvidia's foothold in the fourteen forty p gaming space.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, and the industry is quietly rethinking its obsession with bigger models. Customers are discovering that frontier-class systems from OpenAI and Anthropic are often overkill for everyday tasks like summarizing emails or drafting replies. Smaller, purpose-built models are proving cheaper, faster, and frankly more practical for most real-world workloads.
And in a story about the cost of building something genuinely different, Roli, the company behind the expressive Seaboard instrument, is fighting to avoid a second collapse. The London-based firm has long pushed the boundaries of what a musical instrument can be, but translating innovation into a sustainable business has proven as difficult as ever in the hardware world.
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