Three Billionaires Walk Into a Fried Chicken Restaurant
Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, and the leaders of Samsung and Hyundai staged a regular-folks outing in Seoul before announcing a business deal.
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Nvidia to supply South Korea with more than 260,000 Blackwell AI chips
Nvidia to supply more than 260,000 AI chips to South Korea’s government and some of the country’s biggest businesses US semiconductor leader Nvidia on Friday said it will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced AI chips to South Korea’s government and some of the country’s biggest businesses, including Samsung Electronics. The deal is … Read more
Trump tells Pentagon, US nuclear weapons testing to immediately resume
No nuclear power, other than North Korea, has carried out explosive testing in more than 25 years US President Donald Trump ordered the US military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while he was aboard … Read more
Cameo sues OpenAI over “Cameo” feature in Sora app
Sora’s “Cameos” feature enables users to create AI-generated video likenesses, including those of celebrities Cameo, the celebrity-video marketplace founded in 2017, has filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against OpenAI in a California federal court, alleging that OpenAI’s use of the term “cameo” in its newly launched Sora app feature confuses consumers and dilutes Cameo’s branding. The … Read more
Memory chip sales hit record high, Samsung amps up advanced chip output
Samsung to expand production of HBM chips, sharply increase capital spending next year to meet rising demand Samsung Electronics expects demand for memory chips for the global AI infrastructure build-out to far outstrip the company’s supply, and said on Thursday it will focus on mass producing its most advanced chips to capitalize on the boom. Samsung … Read more
Nvidia Is First Company to Top $5 Trillion in Market Value Amid AI Boom
The A.I. chip maker has become a linchpin in the Trump administration’s trade negotiations in Asia.
Alphabet Revenue Up 16% With Strong Cloud Sales
The internet company said profit for the quarter was up 33 percent, to just under $35 billion.
Meta Raises Its Spending Forecast on A.I. to Above $70 Billion
The Silicon Valley company projected more spending this year and said it would continue in 2026 as it hires A.I. researchers and builds data centers to power the technology.
G.M. Will Cut 1,750 Jobs in Electric Vehicle Business
The layoffs at factories in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee follow the elimination of a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric cars.
48 Hours Without A.I. – The New York Times
new video loaded: 48 Hours Without A.I. A.J. Jacobs went 48 hours without interacting with artificial intelligence. That meant more than just avoiding generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT – he did his best to not interact with any products that used any kind of machine-learning algorithms in their production, marketing or distribution. This was more … Read more