The Haul: 1.44 Million GPUs, a Dead Sticker & a $20 Fortune Teller 🎙️ (NX Tech Tips #9)

September 25, 2026 — Max on NX Tech Tips. Five real tech tips wrapped in bad decisions and worse jokes.

Elon just bought 660,000 more GPUs. Meanwhile, you're pricing a twenty-dollar multimeter. 2026, everybody. Let's go.

1. Elon bought the shelf. All of it.

SpaceXAI is adding another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, bringing them to 1.44 million GPUs in operation — 1.1 million of them GB300s — with a 1.2-gigawatt power plant being built just to feed the herd. While you were refreshing Newegg at 3 a.m., one man bought the shelf. Your dream GPU didn't sell out — it moved to Texas and doesn't write home. Source: Tom's Hardware — Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year

2. The Copilot+ sticker died quietly

Microsoft's Surface chief confirmed the new Surface PCs aren't called Copilot+ PCs anymore — the label is being pulled across PC makers entirely. The features? All still there. The name? Gone without a forwarding address. Corporate breakup etiquette: kill the sticker, keep the subscription. Source: Windows Central — The Copilot+ PC brand is dead · TweakTown — ditching Copilot+ PC branding

3. Steam Deck 2 says "not really"

The entire PC industry is screaming about RAM prices — and Valve, asked directly by IGN whether the memory crisis changed Steam Deck 2 plans, answered with two words: "not really." Same performance target (a genuine leap, not a side-grade), no release date, and a price question Valve admits is "increasingly complicated." That's either supreme confidence or a company that hasn't looked at a price tag since 2019. Source: TechPowerUp — Steam Deck 2 plans haven't changed despite RAM crisis · VideoCardz — Valve: RAM crisis hasn't changed plans

4. Meta made a Tamagotchi that books flights

At Meta Connect, Zuckerberg unveiled the Muse Charm — a keychain-sized, always-on device that runs Meta's Muse AI. No phone. No glasses. It hears your entire day and then helpfully books your flights. A pet that files your taxes. It ships by December — just in time for maximum holiday surveillance. Source: TechCrunch — Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent · Axios — Meta debuts Muse Charm · CNET — Muse Charm keychain announcement

5. The silicon lottery has a scratch ticket now

HotHardware's Zak Killian tested whether a $20 multimeter can reveal your CPU's overclocking potential — before you even install it. Probe the chip, read the numbers, know your silicon lottery winnings in advance. In a year where RAM costs a kidney, the best tech news of the week costs twenty bucks. Source: HotHardware — $20 Multimeter Might Reveal Your CPU's Overclocking Potential

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The verdict: Musk has 1.44 million GPUs, Microsoft's sticker retired, Valve is whistling past the RAM aisle, Meta shrunk your new stalker onto a keychain — and the future officially costs twenty bucks at Canadian Tire.

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