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RAZER BLADE 18 GETS INTEL CORE ULTRA 9, PRICES UP $500

Razer has updated its Blade 18 gaming laptop with Intel's Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics. The base model starts at $4,000, a $500 increase from the comparable 2025 configuration.

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Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the comparable 2025 model (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at…

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Razer updates the Blade 18 with new chips, a specced-out model costs $7,000

The 2026 model adds the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor.

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Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (Lee Jaewoon/The Elec)

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec: Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nv…

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OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course (Cointelegraph)

Cointelegraph: OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they c…

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Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in "select regions", blaming "ongoing market conditions" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in…

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Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could…

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Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A CPUs, citing better supply than chips on older nodes (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A…

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