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US senators want to suspend Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and its intermediaries — bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept says that Huang’s claims of no chip diversion ā€˜were contradicted by reporting available’

The Hot Take: Uh oh, Ai king looks to be in trouble.

U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.

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Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models could hasten historically lengthy processes

The Hot Take: Green New agenda doesn't fit in with Ai replacement of the plebes for sure. So they push us to Solar & Wind while they get viable power options for a bot?

Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations.

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Nvidia admits one GPU to rule them all was a fairy tale

The Hot Take: Nvidia starting to feel the heat of competition and see those $ evaporate as they try other vendors.

Nvidia is preparing to launch a new chip designed to speed up AI responses, breaking with its long-running habit of flogging the same processor for every job. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is expected to unveil a chip focused on ā€œinferenceā€, meaning running models rather than training them. According to people familiar with the plans for GTC next week, the chip is the first new product to emerge from December’s $20bn deal to hire the founders of Groq, a start-up building ā€œlanguage processing unitsā€ tuned for high-speed answers to…

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Samsung union votes to strike, risking Nvidia HBM4 supply disruption

The Hot Take: Only going to shoot costs up on Ai accelerators and RAM or Samsung Chips.

Samsung Electronics' labor union has voted overwhelmingly to initiate dispute proceedings following a breakdown in wage negotiations, raising concerns over potential disruptions to the supply of HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation AI accelerators.

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