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Nvidia
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s net worth falls below $200 billion mark as tech stocks drop
Nvidia and Oracle stock fell on Thursday afternoon after a report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue as of September was around $20 billion lower than prior estimates.
Nvidia says its new platform can prevent AI agents from going rogue
The company’s announcement of a new AI safety system comes amid its billionaire CEO’s rejection of AI slowdown and regulation pushes.
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Hugging Face would remain an “open platform for the entire AI ecosystem.”
A tiny startup helping Google take on Nvidia is now worth $18 billion
A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google’s plans to push its own AI chip. That’s helped it hit a $18 billion valuation and minted its founders as new billionaires.
Nvidia stock loses $130 billion in market value as firm reportedly enters $500 billion AI financing deal
The chip designer’s stock briefly fell more than 3% following a report it was partnering with Wall Street giants like BlackRock on the deal.
Nvidia and OpenAI in talks over $500 billion data centre, with funding from Japan
The development would become the world’s largest data center by power capacity.
Apple briefly unseats Nvidia as world’s largest company
The iPhone maker is once again the world’s largest company by market value.
Australia doesn’t need copyright change to win data centre billions, AI boss says
Copyright law has become the central flashpoint of Australia’s AI and data centre policy. Sharon AI chief executive James Manning says no changes are needed.
Nvidia has best trading day in months after revealing new Microsoft chip
The new line of Windows laptops and desktops will be the first ever to run solely on an Nvidia-made chip, the RTX Spark, as the AI giant looks to take on rivals Intel and AMD.