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Just what is the 'Magnificent Seven' and why is everyone talking about them?

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 23, 2024
These seven tech companies have an outsize influence on the stock market.
The Magnificent Seven refers to seven tech companies that have an outsize influence on the stock market — and are named for the 1960 Western flick.
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Silicon Valley is feeling the AI boom on the ground

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 22, 2024
Real estate prices are getting unreal, thanks to the ripples of Nvidia's success.
San Francisco and much of the Bay Area real estate market are seeing a wave of luxury buying by tech workers who are cashing in their lucrative stock holdings.
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Nvidia goes up and down, a volatile week for the AI chipmaker

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 28, 2024
Has Nvidia reached its peak? Plus, get smarter on ballot initiatives. Subscribe to get the "Make Me Smart" newsletter every Friday!
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Why Nvidia reigns supreme in the market for AI chips

by Matt Levin
Jun 20, 2024
Nvidia has an estimated 75% to 90% of the chip market, and they're well-positioned to keep it that way.
It’s not easy for other chipmakers to compete against one of the richest companies in the world.
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Nvidia dominates in AI, but others are trying to chip away

by Meghan McCarty Carino
May 22, 2024
The chipmaker's early focus on graphics processing technology created an advantage that is paying off hugely this year.
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What can the dot-com bubble teach us about the future of AI?

by Matt Levin
Apr 18, 2024
In the 1990s, Wall Street was very enthusiastic about the internet — and lost a ton of money because of that enthusiasm.
The burgeoning field of artificial intelligence is often compared to the birth of the internet in the 1990s, when many tech companies did too much too quickly and collapsed.
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What you need to know about Nvidia and the AI chip arms race

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 8, 2024
NVIDIA’s share price has jumped several hundred dollars in the past year, rising from $242 to $875.
The burgeoning AI market has increased the demand for the hardware underpinning AI applications. Nvidia is the GPU market leader.
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Will chipmaker Nvidia's earnings report be blockbuster? Or super-blockbuster?

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 21, 2024
Nvidia reports its Q4 financial results after markets close on Wednesday. The chipmaker has forecast major revenue gains thanks to generative AI.
Nvidia forecast it would hit $59 billion in revenue for 2023 — double what it brought in in 2022.
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AI might not take your job after all

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jan 22, 2024
MIT researchers estimate that artificial intelligence would be cost-effective in less than a quarter of the work it could technically do.
Nvidia, a chipmaker with sought-after AI products, has done well on Wall Street, but that doesn't mean AI will steal all our jobs. Above, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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When one company dominates a market, there can be downsides

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Aug 24, 2023
Chipmaker Nvidia is the breakout sensation of the AI boom. But supply chain snarls have taught us the risks of having few sources.
Nvidia designs about 80% of the specialized chips needed to train complex artificial intelligence models. It makes a single-source product that's fabricated by only one company.
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