It’s hard to imagine Nvidia without Jensen Huang — and the CEO has repeatedly discussed his intention to work for as long as possible. Now, the question of succession has come into sharp focus after Huang admitted to having one affair, Nvidia’s board announced it’s investigating whether Huang was the target of a “foreign intelligence
While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia. And they weren’t exactly reacting constructively to the news. “Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us,” Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a
Asia’s technology stocks took another beating on Friday as a brutal sell-off in the AI trade swept across the region. Some of the chipmakers and technology companies that powered this year’s stock-market rally were among the hardest hit. South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index plunged 9% in early trading, triggering a trading halt. Japan’s Nikkei 225
Amazon is racing to secure AI hardware earlier than before, even as data center power shortages leave some GPU systems waiting in warehouses. Under a new Early Rack Receipt process, AWS expected to receive roughly $5 billion in Nvidia’s GB300 server racks at US facilities before final deployment, according to August internal emails reviewed by
Often used as shorthand for two opposing sides of America, California and Texas have finally found common ground — on data centers breaking ground. The two most populous US states announced limits on data center development on Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a package of new laws regulating data centers. The laws require
I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the company, saying that AI labs are “gambling with
