Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.
Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in ad…

Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators
Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall…

Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits
Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits

The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvi…

Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers
Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …

China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%
China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%

The gap between American and Chinese AI is closing fast. Chinese models narrowed the performance shortfall to a record-low 6% in June, down from 9% in May, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The research arm said the shift raises real questions about…

White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on Am…

Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school
Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school

Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of it…

Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.
Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China. On the same day, the chief executive of the company that powers the entire AI boom went the other way. The threat Bessent said the US will scrutinise Chinese open…

Databricks’ cofounder just raised $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute
Databricks’ cofounder just raised $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

The company came out of stealth on Tuesday. The founders built it at UC Berkeley, in the same lab that produced Spark, Databricks, and Anyscale. The team includes Zongheng Yang and Databricks co-founders Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. The star-studded c…

Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips
Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips

Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assembling Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips. T…