PC shipments fell 20.1% year-over-year in Q3 2026, dropping to 62.7 million units from 78.5 million in Q3 2025, as vendors faced excess inventory from early-year pull-in ahead of price hikes and elevated hardware costs dampened demand. IDC warns conditions could deteriorate further, with most major vendors including HP and Dell experiencing double-digit declines.
PC shipments declined 20.1% in Q3 2026, with HP and Dell experiencing the largest impacts. The market contraction reflects ongoing challenges in the personal computer sector.
Dell launches the XPS 16 Creator Edition laptop featuring Nvidia's RTX Spark platform with an 18-core N1X chip, 5,120 GPU cores, 32 GB unified memory, and a 16-inch 3.2K 120Hz OLED display. The device is priced at $3,799.99 and available for pre-order at Best Buy, competing with similar RTX Spark creator laptops from Asus and MSI for AI and creative workloads.
President Trump awarded the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology to six Big Tech executives including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella at a summit. The awardees have collectively donated nearly $6 billion to Trump-related efforts, though Microsoft was simultaneously suspended from the H-1B visa program.
President Trump awarded National Medals of Science and Technology to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella, and Michael Dell at a White House summit promoting a 'golden age' of American science. The event emphasized the importance of immigrant talent to U.S. innovation, even as the administration announced restrictions on foreign worker visa programs.
Jessica Rojas criticizes the U.S. Treasury's automatic "Trump Accounts" for children under 18 without parental consent, noting that the Dell family is funding $250 deposits for 25 million eligible children through a system involving Robinhood, BNY Mellon, and the Treasury. Additional posts discuss Zebec's real-time finance infrastructure and Robinhood's exploration of tokenized ETF products on its blockchain.
President Trump awarded the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology to six technology executives including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, and Satya Nadella. The ceremony highlighted Trump's close ties with Silicon Valley, occurring hours after the administration suspended Microsoft and other tech firms from the H-1B visa program over alleged fraud.
AI model evaluation platform Arena raised $200 million in a funding round, valuing the company at $3.1 billion—nearly double its January valuation. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Arena, which originated from UC Berkeley's Chatbot Arena project, operates a public leaderboard for large language models and achieved $100 million in annualized revenue as of June.
Trump Accounts, investment vehicles for children, have reached nearly 70 million accounts following automatic enrollment and Treasury rule changes permitting stock donations. The administration reports over $4.5 billion deposited and expects multimillion-dollar contributions from major philanthropists, with the new rules allowing individual stock holdings to attract wealthy donors seeking capital gains tax benefits.