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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia announced its plans to construct a quantum computing research center on Tuesday, with the chip maker pledging to solve some of the field’s “most challenging problems" by coupling quantum hardware with supercomputers. The Nvidia Accelerated Quantum Research Center, or NVAQC, will pave the way for “accelerated quantum supercomputing," the company said.

Microsoft Corp., the biggest backer of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and BlackRock Inc., which has an executive on the artificial intelligence startup’s board, are joining forces with one of its chief rivals. Abu Dhabi’s MGX, Microsoft and BlackRock said Elon Musk’s xAI is joining their effort to build $30 billion worth of data centers and other artificial intelligence infrastructure. The AI chipmaker Nvidia Corp., which was already named as a technical adviser to the group when it was announced last year, is also formally joining, according to a statement on Wednesday that didn’t detail member commitments.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia is fighting to hang onto its command of artificial intelligence, as the technology evolves to chips outside of the data center. Major tech companies have been racing to build data centers, the facilities where AI models are trained and run globally—and where Nvidia’s AI chips dominate.

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang on Tuesday showcased cutting-edge chips for artificial intelligence and new applications for the technology, shrugging off talk of China's DeepSeek disrupting the market and dangers from US President Donald Trump's trade wars. Huang gave a hotly anticipated keynote presentation at Nvidia's annual developers conference that packed the SAP Center in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, home of the Sharks NHL hockey team. Billing the event as an AI «Super Bowl,» the Taiwan-born tech titan was greeted by an audience of more than 20,000 who sat through his two-hour-plus address announcing the company's latest updates.

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it is looking to drive growth as it faced tough questions from shareholders after its failure to ride an artificial intelligence boom made it one of the worst-performing tech stocks last year. The South Korean firm has been suffering from weak earnings and sagging share prices in recent quarters after falling behind rivals in advanced memory chips and contract chip manufacturing, which have enjoyed strong demand from AI projects. «I have never been to a Samsung AGM since I became its shareholder in 2000, but I wanted to see what executives have to say (this time) and what they will do,» a 65-year old shareholder who only gave his family name, Lee, told Reuters ahead of the meeting. «They should go all-in on the memory chip business, where they can excel, or do something about the foundry,» he said. In internal meetings, Samsung has acknowledged it has lost ground. This is particularly true in semiconductors, where it lags SK Hynix in high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that Nvidia and others rely on for AI graphic processing units.

BEIJING — Chinese electric car company Zeekr is releasing advanced driver-assistance capabilities to its local customers for free as competition heats up, Zeekr CEO Andy An told CNBC ahead of a launch event Tuesday.

Jensen Huang is expected to showcase cutting-edge chips for artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing on Tuesday, shrugging off talk of China's DeepSeek disrupting the market. Huang's keynote presentation at Nvidia's annual developers conference should pack the SAP Center in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, where the Sharks NHL hockey team plays. Industry watchers expect Huang to spotlight Nvidia's latest Blackwell line of graphics processing units (GPUs), including new updates in the works.

ChatGPT’s release in 2022 created an influx of artificial intelligence-focused creators on social media who started by testing and sharing chatbot capabilities. The cohort has grown, with software developers, engineers, researchers, and even elite AI scientists now breaking down the latest in GPUs, AI models, agents, and dev tools—often in bite-sized, viral content. They have amassed thousands of followers, locked in lucrative brand deals, and are reshaping the way technology giants like Nvidia, Adobe, Meta, Google, and a swarm of startups market their innovations. Some are pocketing anywhere from $5,000 to $60,000 per month through newsletters, masterclasses and sponsored content, as well as their own marketing agencies. Platforms like X and LinkedIn have become the go-to arenas for this AI gold rush. The booming space is beating traditional tech jobs by a mile.

Blackwell Ultra GB300 AI chip, developments in quantum computing, and new AI-driven innovations in robotics, autonomous systems, and data centers.

Samsung Electronics must adopt a «do-or-die» mindset, its chairman told executives, to confront the challenges posed by artificial intelligence that are upending the industry, Yonhap news reported Monday. South Korean giant Samsung has been struggling to meet Nvidia's requirements as rival SK hynix has become the US titan's main supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for its AI graphics processing units (GPU). The world's largest memory-chip maker already acknowledged in October that it was facing a «crisis», and admitted questions had arisen about its «fundamental technological competitiveness and the future of the company».

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia has barely started shipping its latest artificial intelligence chips, and everybody is already looking to hear about the next ones. For the world’s most valuable semiconductor company, that is a high-quality problem.

Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker came in at T$46.33 billion ($1.41 billion), missing analysts' average forecast of T$54.4 billion, according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.

artificial intelligence servers. Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker likely came in at T$54.4 billion ($1.65 billion), according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts, versus T$53.15 billion a year earlier. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia—the stock market’s AI darling—is not only cheap in historical terms, but it is notably less expensive than some other stocks you might not expect. Nvidia stock is one of, if not the most, frequently discussed artificial-intelligence trades on Wall Street.

Lip-Bu Tan may be one of the most powerful technology executives you've never heard of. As he steps into one of the highest-profile jobs on the planet, CEO of troubled, storied chipmaker Intel, his performance will be on full display. Tan, named Intel CEO on Wednesday, faces an enormous challenge in turning around the operations of a company that put the «silicon» in Silicon Valley. While little known to the public, his advantage is that virtually every one of Intel's former and potential customers knows him and has done business with him, either buying one of the many startups he backed or using software from a company he ran.

Tan told the Intel team his focus would be on engineering, saying it «won't be easy» to overcome challenges faced by the company. Tan, who was born in Malaysia, will start as Intel chief on March 18, according to the company.

Nvidia will stream the keynote free on its website.

The world's biggest social media company has begun a small deployment of the chip and plans to ramp up production for wide-scale use if the test goes well, the sources said. The push to develop in-house chips is part of a long-term plan at Meta to bring down its mammoth infrastructure costs as the company places expensive bets on AI tools to drive growth.

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