Nvidia sees ‘very strong’ demand for Blackwell chips — here’s what CEO Jensen Huang said

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday said the chipmaker is experiencing “very strong demand” for its newest, state-of-the-art Blackwell chips, which are designed to power the current Artificial Intelligence boom. Huang also noted that this increasing demand for Blackwell chips is translating into a growing appetite for wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Nvidia’s … Read more

Amazon inks $38 billion deal with OpenAI for Nvidia chips

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has signed a $38 billion deal to supply a slice of OpenAI’s bottomless demand for computing power. Amazon shares jumped. The ChatGPT maker will pay Amazon Web Services for access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units as part of a seven-year deal, the companies announced on Monday. … Read more

TCS’ $6.5 bn bet marks India’s push against tech colonisation

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has drawn up a $6.5 billion capital expenditure plan that goes beyond simply setting aside risk capital, Times of India reported. The move marks a deeper push to build long-term digital capabilities and potentially guard against what experts call “tech colonisation”. As India’s digital infrastructure demand surges, companies are turning to … Read more

AI AI Yo! Two desi lads in Silicon Valley become youngest self-made billionaires at 22

TOI correspondent from Washington: In a stunning testament to the boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI), three 22-year-old high school friends from Silicon Valley, including two Indian-Americans, have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, co-founders of the San Francisco-based AI recruiting platform Mercor, achieved the staggering feat after their company … Read more

chatgpt: The AI bubble: What it can & cannot do

AI startups are growing rapidly and attracting a growing share of market investment. With the AI hype reaching new heights, investors are putting large bets on its transformative abilities. The emergence of agentic AIs has further reinforced these hopes. While it is undeniable that large language models (LLMs) have become staple to many workplaces, the … Read more

AI infrastructure push: Nvidia, Microsoft join BlackRock-led group in $40 billion data center deal; computing power in focus

A consortium led by global asset manager BlackRock, along with chipmaker Nvidia and tech giant Microsoft, is set to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Australian financial services major Macquarie in a deal valued at around $40 billion.The acquisition underscores the tech sector’s escalating race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure — from chips and servers to … Read more

Is there an AI bubble? Financial institutions sound a warning

Lingering doubts about the economic promise of artificial intelligence technology are starting to get the attention of financial institutions that raised warning flags this week about an AI investment bubble. Officials at the Bank of England on Wednesday flagged the growing risk that tech stock prices pumped up by the AI boom could burst. “The … Read more