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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion
0:07.7	dollar swings.
0:09.0	There's a money side to every story.
0:11.4	Get the money side of the story.
0:13.6	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:26.8	Welcome to the tech. We ride Home for Monday, June 1st, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:34.9	InVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark, an arm-based consumer chip family, plus a DGX station desktop that runs one trillion parameter models.
0:39.8	Minimax launched a coding model rivaling Opus 4.7 at 1.40th the price,
0:43.8	and Anthropic bans the use of AI in their own job interview process.
0:46.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
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1:33.6	do pp-e-l.com. That's d OPPEL.com. All of the sudden, today was a day of chip news. For example,
1:44.9	NVIDIA announced the RTS Spark, an arm-based consumer chip family that it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built.
1:52.8	It's made on TSM3 in partnership with Media Tech, quoting the verge.
1:58.1	The RTX Spark is effectively the same GB10 chip that's in the DGX Spark,
2:03.3	the tiny personal AI supercomputer that NVIDIA released last year, only now it's a family of chips
2:08.6	instead of just one. The flagship version appears to be spec-to-spec identical with 20 CPU
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