• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Similarly, there’s been reporting that AI giants are buying up cards and storing them in warehouses because there’s no data center with capacity. Ed Zitron is giving interviews saying he suspects that Nvidia is telling them that if the companies in question don’t buy up stock now, Nvidia will refuse to sell to them in the future.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Nvidia is telling them that if the companies in question don’t buy up stock now, Nvidia will refuse to sell to them in the future.

      He also points out that Nvidia saying so is really fucking illegal

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        5 hours ago

        When has that ever mattered? As long as a rich person isn’t affected it’s all good.

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      10 hours ago

      Can’t wait for all this to come down to nvidia doing illegal shit all along for the past 25 years, just so they get fined $1000 and we all move on

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    24 hours ago

    The pronoun game in this article made it really hard to follow. I’m still not sure if it’s EVGA or Nvidia that’s being referred to by “its” in several sentences.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s pretty hard to read. Journalism is so rough these days, and you don’t even know if you are reading a humans words anymore.