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The Second Source for the 5090 Rumour May Be the First One.

On Saturday we wrote that the RTX 5090 discontinuation story rested on a single leaker’s post and said we would report back either way. Three days on there is still no statement from NVIDIA, the card is still listed on its own product page, and the second leaker being cited may be the same person as the first. Meanwhile people are picking replacement cards today.

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One Post Says the 5090 Is Ending. Here Is What Would Actually Change.

NVIDIA is reportedly steering the GB202 die to its professional cards, which would leave the RTX 5080 as the top GeForce. Every outlet carrying it traces back to a single leaker’s post from this morning. The interesting question is not whether the card dies. It is what happens to the amount of VRAM a person can buy new.

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People Are Panic Downloading Models Before It Is Too Late. Here Is What Actually Deserves the Disk.

Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them.

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NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face. Hours Later, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok All Went Dark.

Two unrelated things happened on the same Thursday. The place almost every open model lives got acquired by the company that makes the chips, and the three biggest chatbots went down together because they share a cloud. Here is what we think it means for anyone running AI on their own machine, including the part where our own pipeline broke this morning.

The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 9, Open Weights Won the Traffic, So They Priced the Road

Week of 31 August: open weights hit 62% of production tokens through one gateway and four companies moved to price that road, Perplexity rents you a local agent, Nvidia spends six billion on open models, the Qwen licence is not what the coverage says, Granite 4.2 puts the thinking dial in your hands, and a song gets printed on paper.