11 October 2026

Nvidia reportedly stops selling GB202 chips for the GeForce RTX 5090 - they will go only to professional and data center cards

Nvidia has stopped selling GB202 chips for GeForce RTX 5090 cards to partners, including for the D variants for the Chinese market, and the chips will go exclusively to professional and data center cards, Tom's Hardware reports, citing a factory notice revealed by leaker @hongxing2020 and confirmed by @Zed__Wang; Nvidia did not comment. The top GeForce model will be the RTX 5080 24 GB, and the 16 GB version will be discontinued. The professional RTX Pro 5500 card has the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5090 (21,760), but 84 GB of memory instead of 32 GB, and costs much more.

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DeepMind model forecasts hurricanes a day earlier than other models on average

The WeatherNext Cyclones model developed by Google DeepMind predicts the track and intensity of tropical cyclones, as well as the extent of their winds, as accurately as leading operational models, but at least a day earlier on average, according to a paper published in Nature. Gizmodo honored it in its Science Fair 2026 competition. The model is used by the US National Hurricane Center and the UK Met Office, among others. The code is available on GitHub, and running the model doesn't require a supercomputer.

Gizmodo ↗ Nature ↗

SpaceX strikes deal to buy 800 MHz spectrum licenses and wants to become a major US mobile carrier

SpaceX announced a deal to buy nationwide 800 MHz spectrum licenses (up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum). This band is meant to let the Starlink Mobile network reach inside buildings. Once the FCC approves, the company wants to combine satellites that connect directly to phones with a terrestrial network and compete with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. The same week, the FCC approved the Gen2 constellation: 15,000 V2 Starlink Mobile satellites, which according to SpaceX will provide more than 100 times the capacity of the current generation.

SpaceX ↗ The Verge ↗

AI companies are rehearsing scenarios for the "day after" a catastrophic AI incident

Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately analyzing scenarios of public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI incident, most likely a cyberattack that cuts off access to financial services, the internet, or power or water, Axios reports, citing industry sources. Many of them expect such an event within 6-12 months; the preparations involve analyzing worst-case scenarios and educating members of Congress in order to influence the rules authorities will reach for after the first disaster. OpenAI confirmed it runs such exercises but "does not treat these scenarios as inevitable"; Anthropic declined to comment.

Axios ↗ Gizmodo ↗

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