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Amazon is looking to sell roughly $8 billion worth of Nvidia chips to outside investors, according to a Financial Times report picked up by Reuters. The move suggests the company has secured more AI computing hardware than it currently needs and is seeking to share the cost and capacity burden with others.

A new video essay asks a provocative question for the AI era: what would computing look like if the industry moved away from GPUs, the chips that currently power most machine learning. The piece explores alternatives to GPU-based hardware and the economics of relying so heavily on a small number of chip suppliers. It is drawing attention on Hacker News, where readers are debating whether the GPU's dominance in AI compute is as secure as it seems.