Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs
speckx · hn · 2026-11-14
TechPowerUp reports that Nvidia allegedly funded AI startups with the expectation that they would buy its GPUs, artificially manufacturing the appearance of GPU scarcity. The story sparked heated debate on Hacker News over whether this amounts to manipulating supply-and-demand signals.
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