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Nvidia's Blackwell graphics cards just got a lot more expensive in the United States. Prices on Newegg for the RTX fifty seventy have jumped thirty six percent, with the RTX fifty sixty up twenty seven, and some models climbing as high as thirty nine percent. For PC builders already watching RAM and storage costs rise, the timing stings.
Shifting gears to a story about the internet itself changing shape — Cloudflare's chief financial officer Thomas Seifert is warning that human beings are becoming, in his words, a rounding error on the web. He predicts machine-generated traffic could outnumber humans by a factor of one thousand within five years. The company had previously flagged machines overtaking humans by twenty twenty seven, and that estimate is now running ahead of schedule.
And from the world of AI investment, the New Yorker is asking a pointed question about Leopold Aschenbrenner, the former OpenAI researcher who became something of a prophet for the AI acceleration movement. His recent stumbles are prompting fresh scrutiny of whether the AI bubble is showing its first real cracks, or whether this is simply the market sorting signal from noise.
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