Nvidia

Nvidia is a technology company that specializes in the development and production of graphics processing units (GPUs) and other high-performance computing technologies. The company's key executives include CEO Jensen Huang, CFO Colette Kress, and CTO Michael Kagan. The company's competitors include other technology giants such as Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.

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Benchmark’s AI Pressure Test: High Prices, Smaller Stakes—and a Poached Star

By Natasha Mascarenhas · Oct 31, 2025 9:49am PDT · 2 comments

Last year, Benchmark, the storied venture capital firm, embarked on a lavish courtship of Brendan Foody, founder and CEO of Mercor, a startup that fills a lucrative niche in AI by hiring workers to train AI programs. First, General Partner Victor Lazarte chatted with Foody over Zoom. Then Peter Fenton, the firm’s longest-tenured active GP, took... Last year, Benchmark, the storied venture capital firm, embarked on a lavish courtship of Brendan...

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How Microsoft Escaped the AI Margin Squeeze; An FDE Boom

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 30, 2025 10:33am PDT

Microsoft shared some good and bad news with investors during its quarterly earnings call Wednesday: More customers have been using Microsoft’s suite of AI copilots, but many of them aren’t paying for it. Microsoft said more people are using Copilot Chat, which provides ChatGPT-like features to Office 365 subscribers for free (more advanced... Microsoft shared some good and bad news with investors during its quarterly earnings call...

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AI Leaders Get Practical; Gemini’s Ascent

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 30, 2025 7:00am PDT

At our Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference Wednesday, AI leaders from Microsoft, PagerDuty and Index Ventures got into the nitty gritty of what it’s like to invest in, develop, buy and use AI products. Our top takeaways.1. Not everyone’s a fan of vibe coding. Lucy Guo, the CEO of creator startup Passes and a cofounder of data labeling... At our Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference Wednesday, AI leaders from Microsoft, ...

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What Google, Meta and Microsoft Numbers Revealed

By Martin Peers · Oct 29, 2025 5:00pm PDT

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What Google, Meta and Microsoft Numbers Revealed

By Martin Peers · Oct 29, 2025 5:00pm PDT

Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI—again. And the cost is mounting. Meta Platforms reported Wednesday that its increased investment in AI, both for hiring star AI researchers and for investing billions in data centers, hurt its operating profit margins and squeezed its free cash flow by one-third in the third quarter. Since the end of last... Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI—again. And the cost is mounting. Meta Platforms reported...

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China Fast-Tracks Tech IPOs to Counter US AI Rivalry

By Juro Osawa and Qianer Liu · Oct 29, 2025 8:00am PDT

The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public in hopes of increasing investment in the tech sector. In recent months, securities regulators in China approved the public listings of two chip designers, MetaX and Moore Threads, in less than three months. Chinese... The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace...

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How Realistic is OpenAI’s 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 29, 2025 7:00am PDT

OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised agreement with Microsoft and corporate restructuring, and an hour-long livestream in which CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki answered questions from the public. (For more on the restructuring, check out this story from my colleagues.)On the... OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised...

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Nvidia and OpenAI Flood the Zone With AI News

By Martin Peers · Oct 28, 2025 5:00pm PDT

Where’s an AI agent when you need one? We got a flood of AI-related news today, including OpenAI’s revelation that it had completed its long-gestating restructuring into a near-normal company, one that can go public one day. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also was busy making news at the company’s GTC event in Washington, revealing the volume of orders... Where’s an AI agent when you need one? We got a flood of AI-related news today, including OpenAI’...

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What the OpenAI Restructuring Means

By Sri Muppidi and Aaron Holmes · Oct 28, 2025 1:54pm PDT · 1 comment

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What the OpenAI Restructuring Means

By Sri Muppidi and Aaron Holmes · Oct 28, 2025 1:54pm PDT · 1 comment

OpenAI on Tuesday completed a yearlong restructuring that will allow it to one day go public, when it could raise tens of billions of dollars to help fund its costly artificial intelligence. The company will continue to be effectively controlled by a nonprofit board of directors, although the restructuring has converted the investments made by... OpenAI on Tuesday completed a yearlong restructuring that will allow it to one day go public,...

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Profit Pressure Spurs Chip Deals

By Valida Pau · Oct 28, 2025 12:41pm PDT

Giant tech companies are wreaking havoc on chipmakers, outcompeting them or shifting to new suppliers, and that’s spurring a dealmaking spree in the industry. We broke news last night about the largest chip deal of the year, Skyworks Solutions buying rival chipmaker Qorvo for $10.6 billion. Both companies, which make radio frequency chips... Giant tech companies are wreaking havoc on chipmakers, outcompeting them or shifting to new...

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Qualcomm’s AI Hope

By Martin Peers · Oct 27, 2025 5:00pm PDT

Another day, another chip company-A deal. This time, it’s Qualcomm, best known for its mobile phone chips (such as the modem in most iPhones). What Qualcomm is not known for is selling chips for data center servers, despite its valiant attempts to do so in the past. Will this time be different? We’ll see. At least Qualcomm has a customer for its... Another day, another chip company-A deal. This time, it’s Qualcomm, best known for its mobile...

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Big Tech Earnings, Nvidia’s GTC Dominate Crowded Week

By Martin Peers · Oct 26, 2025 3:00pm PDT

This is our first of what we plan to be a regular Sunday evening Briefing, looking out at the coming week. And what a week this promises to be. Nvidia is holding one of its GTC events for developers and customers in Washington Monday through Wednesday—which leather jacket will Jensen Huang wear onstage this time? (For more on GTC, see below.) We... This is our first of what we plan to be a regular Sunday evening Briefing, looking out at the...

Vinod Khosla Talks AI, Power and Why Businesses Struggle With New AI Services

By Akash Pasricha · Oct 26, 2025 10:00am PDT · 2 comments

Vinod Khosla Talks AI, Power and Why Businesses Struggle With New AI Services

By Akash Pasricha · Oct 26, 2025 10:00am PDT · 2 comments

Vinod Khosla thinks companies which say they’re struggling to get a return on their spending on artificial-intelligence services may be doing it wrong. In an interview with The Information’s TITV this past week, he said “most enterprises who are executing AI are doing it with their people who are not qualified to execute.” In contrast, when... Vinod Khosla thinks companies which say they’re struggling to get a return on their spending on...

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AI Chip Startup SambaNova Explores Sale After Stalled Fundraising

By Valida Pau · Oct 25, 2025 7:34am PDT · 2 comments

Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The Palo Alto, Calif., startup was last valued at $5 billion in 2021. SambaNova and other AI chip startups have had difficulty growing sales in the face of... Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to...

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Our Smart Bed Future May Be a Nightmare

By Abram Brown · Oct 25, 2025 7:04am PDT

Welcome, Weekenders!Quickly, a programming note: The Briefing, the newsletter written by my colleague Martin Peers, is shifting to an altered schedule, and starting tomorrow, it’ll appear Sunday through Thursday. Martin on a Sunday evening—what a treat! Among other topics, he’ll be applying his inimitable powers of explanation to previewing tech... Welcome, Weekenders!Quickly, a programming note: The Briefing, the newsletter written by my...

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Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Midha to Establish Compute Firm

By Katie Roof · Oct 24, 2025 12:52pm PDT · 1 comment

Andreessen Horowitz’s artificial intelligence chip hunter is setting out on his own. Anjney Midha—an Andreessen general partner who helped the firm’s startups gain access to highly sought-after graphics processing units—told the firm’s staff on Friday that he was setting up an outside venture called AMP to “provide compute and... Andreessen Horowitz’s artificial intelligence chip hunter is setting out on his own. Anjney...

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Trump Opens Door for Crypto’s Offshore Giants

By Yueqi Yang · Oct 23, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment

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Trump Opens Door for Crypto’s Offshore Giants

By Yueqi Yang · Oct 23, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment

For crypto’s offshore giants these days, there’s nothing more important than figuring out their Trump playbook. Most are succeeding, as President Donald Trump’s pardon of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao today demonstrated. The pardon of Zhao, who was convicted of violating anti–money-laundering laws and served a four-month sentence last year,... For crypto’s offshore giants these days, there’s nothing more important than figuring out their...

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OpenAI’s New Browser War; Google’s College Developer Play

By Erin Woo and Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 22, 2025 7:00am PDT

Before we get to today’s column, we’d be remiss not to mention OpenAI’s release on Tuesday of its new web browser, news of which we first scooped almost a year ago. The new browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is yet another example of OpenAI expanding its reach into consumers’ online lives, just as other tech incumbents such as Google and Apple... Before we get to today’s column, we’d be remiss not to mention OpenAI’s release on Tuesday of its...

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Netflix’s Success Spotlights Warner’s Failure

By Martin Peers · Oct 21, 2025 5:00pm PDT

OpenAI continued its march to world domination, unveiling its long-anticipated Web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. It offers some snazzy features, including a split-screen view that allows you to ask ChatGPT questions related to the webpage you’re on without switching tabs. Given how difficult it is to change people’s ingrained habits, getting consumers... OpenAI continued its march to world domination, unveiling its long-anticipated Web browser, ...

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Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 21, 2025 7:05am PDT · 2 comments

Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Friday threw cold water on the idea that artificial general intelligence is around the corner. He also cast doubt on various assumptions about AI made by the industry’s biggest boosters, such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.The highly regarded Karpathy called ... Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Friday threw cold water on the idea...

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OpenAI’s Japanese Rival Sakana in Talks to Raise Capital at $2.5 Billion Valuation

By Stephanie Palazzolo, Juro Osawa and Katie Roof · Oct 20, 2025 8:57pm PDT

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OpenAI’s Japanese Rival Sakana in Talks to Raise Capital at $2.5 Billion Valuation

By Stephanie Palazzolo, Juro Osawa and Katie Roof · Oct 20, 2025 8:57pm PDT

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based developer of artificial intelligence, is in talks with U.S. and Japanese investors to raise $100 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion, up 66% from a financing a year ago, according to two people involved in the discussions. The funding talks come months after CEO David Ha said publicly that the company would operate... Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based developer of artificial intelligence, is in talks with U.S. and Japanese...