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OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
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The Verge’s Hayden Field on how OpenAI president Greg Brockman has consolidated power as Sam Altman’s second-in-command.

Nilay Patel
Plaud is launching AI earbudsPlaud is launching AI earbuds
Jess Weatherbed
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Alienware’s flagship 5K OLED curved gaming monitor is now available for $1,099.

Alienware announced its fancy AW3926QW monitor back at Computex, and it’s now up for sale with an actual price. The 39-inch tandem OLED with a 165Hz refresh rate and 1500R curve uses an LG panel with RGB stripe subpixels for sharper text display. And it’s loaded with extras, like a KVM and a USB-C port with 90W passthrough power. All for a cool $1,099.

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<em>The front and rear of the AW3926QW.</em>
<em>Lots of ports, including video via HDMI 2.1 FRL, DisplayPort 2.1, and USB-C.</em>
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The front and rear of the AW3926QW.
Image: Alienware
Sleep score court is in sessionSleep score court is in session
Allison Johnson
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Is Nvidia buying Hugging Face?

Nvidia, which recently debuted “compute as an asset class” and definitely is not doing circular financing, is reportedly buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, according to The Information, which cites a single anonymous source. Almost an hour earlier, Business Insider reported that the two companies were in talks but had not yet reached a deal, also citing a single anonymous source.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Amazon’s adding another 2 million of Nvidia’s GPUs to its AWS data centers.

That’s on top of the 1 million Nvidia GPUs it was already planning to add, before demand “exceeded” expectations. The two companies doubled down on their partnership as Nvidia announced record revenue yet again, and Amazon says it’s planning to bring Nvidia’s Vera CPUs to AWS.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s more of Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.

Sony’s new trailer for The Social Reckoning features a few brief snippets of Strong’s performance. The voice is pretty uncanny. The film debuts in theaters on October 9th.