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Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family built with MediaTek on TSMC 3, plus a DGX Station desktop that runs 1T-parameter models. Intel detailed its Crescent Island GPUs, MiniMax launched a coding model rivaling Opus 4.7 at 1/40th the price, and Anthropic bans AI in interviews.
- Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls "the most efficient PC chip ever built", made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek (The Verge)
- Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them "built for agentic AI" (Tom's Hardware)
- Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (SiliconAngle)
- Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (The Information)
- A look at Anthropic's hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense (Bloomberg)