2026

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your next GPU is about to cost 30% more — and it has nothing to do with Nvidia

MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 6 min

A Google office building — one of several major tech companies announcing job cuts in early August 2026

Software

tech layoffs in 2026 have already beaten all of last year — and it's only August

Over 125,000 tech workers have lost their jobs so far this year, more than the entirety of 2025, as Zillow, TikTok, Etsy and Google all announced cuts within days of each other.

Priya Nair · Aug 13 · 5 min

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card standing upright against a dark background

Hardware

an RTX 5080 now costs more than an RTX 5090 did at launch. no, that's not a typo

Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min