China approves Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance to order NVIDIA H200 chips after initial ban, balancing AI competition needs with semiconductor independence goals.

Weather is an area ripe for innovation from AI. According to Bloomberg, AI models that identify patterns in giant sets of atmospheric data are starting to supplant more conventional forecasting. Nvidia claims that AI-powered forecasting can save on compute time and costs, as well.

NVIDIA is writing another massive check to fuel the AI boom, dropping $2 billion into CoreWeave as the two companies push toward more than five gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030. The deal keeps CoreWeave at the front of the line for NVIDIA’s upcoming hardware,

Samsung Electronics Co. is getting close to securing certification from Nvidia Corp. for the latest version of its AI memory chip, called HBM4, making progress in narrowing the gap with rival SK Hynix Inc.

So while all three companies are trying to increase their penetration of the data center market, we shouldn't assume Nvidia is the only major maker of picks and shovels for the AI gold rush. Instead, analysts expect all three chipmakers to grow rapidly for the foreseeable future.

Shares of GPU titan Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) may have been stuck in a sideways channel for the past six months, but a lot has been going on behind the scenes amid the intense sideways action. Of course, Nvidia isn’t solely to blame for the recent consolidation.

The British AI video company has raised $200 million in fresh funding.

Next time you apply for a job, your initial interview and training sessions might be with a talking bot. That’s the vision of Synthesia, an artificial intelligence startup in London that creates digital humans for businesses.