This week, Nvidia became the first company in history to be worth $4 trillion. It’s a number so large it’s almost meaningless, more than the entire economy of Germany or the United Kingdom. While Wall Street celebrates, the question for everyone else is simple: So what? The answer, according to Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, is that this is not just …
Read More »Nvidia CEO to hold media briefing in Beijing on July 16 Reuters Nvidia’s Huang Says China’s Military Unlikely to Use US AI Chips Bloomberg U.S. senators warn Nvidia CEO Huang about his upcoming China trip CNBC Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets Trump at White House as chipmaker hits $4 trillion milestone Times of India Nvidia CEO China trip alarms senators The Hill Source link
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Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a shakeup at X, Hugging Face’s new robot, new phones from Nothing and Samsung, and a whole lot more. Have a great weekend! Off to do something else: X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down this week after a tumultuous two-year tenure marked by advertiser …
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In her last public appearance as CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino sat down last month at the Cannes Lions advertising conference with tennis great Serena Williams. Along with touting Williams’ forthcoming X podcast, the pair found common ground in their experiences with the social media platform long known as Twitter. The exchange took on new resonance this week in light …
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Indeed and Glassdoor are laying off 1,300 people. The CEO of the parent company that owns both job-hunting platforms extolled the virtues of AI in the memo announcing the cuts. The companies have cut 3,200 jobs in the past two years. As if to underline just how unstable today’s job market is, job-hunting platform Indeed has instituted a series of …
Read More »US senators warn Nvidia CEO about upcoming China trip Reuters U.S. senators warn Nvidia CEO Huang about his upcoming China trip CNBC China’s AI Dreams Lead to Data Centers in Once-Restive West Bloomberg Nvidia’s Jensen Huang plans Beijing trip ahead of new China AI chip launch Financial Times Bipartisan senators press Nvidia CEO over China trip The Hill Source link
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It seems impossible that Tim Cook’s legacy as Apple’s spectacularly successful CEO could be in jeopardy. But in recent months, and especially in recent days, the impossible has become at least conceivable. The latest tremors came when Apple announced chief operating officer Jeff Williams would retire by yearend after 27 years. Just a day before, the company’s top AI executive, …
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We still don’t know why Linda Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of X on Tuesday. Her sudden abdication came off the back of a legendarily horrific freakout by the AI Grok, which saw the chatbot make a series of egregiously racist statements, claiming to be “MechaHitler” and praising Nazis over the course of a chaotic day. But if Yaccarino was …
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OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday. Mohan and the Windsurf employees will focus on agentic coding efforts at Google DeepMind and work largely on Gemini. Google will not …
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Unilever has appointed a new CEO to lead Ben & Jerry’s as its battle over the ice cream brand’s lefty politics heats up, according to a report Friday. Jochanan Senf, a Dutch Unilever executive who previously managed Ben & Jerry’s Europe business, will start in the new role this month after the British parent company abruptly axed former CEO David …
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