President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday as the US prepares to tee up tariffs on semiconductors, weighs the fate of a subsidy program and probes whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek skirted export controls to obtain the chipmakers’ products.
OpenAI is in talks for an investment round to raise nearly $40 billion that would value the AI startup at up to $340 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
SoftBank is in talks to lead a funding round for artificial intelligence robotics start-up Skild AI that would more than double its valuation to close to $4bn, as Masayoshi Son hunts for deals to match his vaunted ambitions for the sector.
The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia ( NVDA 4.43%) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7% Wednesday morning. At 12:32 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 4.1%.
Nvidia dipped 0.8% after initially gaining, following a nearly 17% plunge on Monday—its worst drop since the 2020 COVID crash.
Rebounding tech stocks drove U.S. indexes higher a day after they tumbled on doubts about the artificial intelligence frenzy.
The recovery came after US chipmaker Nvidia closed up 9 per cent on Tuesday, recouping some of the heavy losses that wiped $600bn off its market capitalisation at the start of the week, when investors fretted over the threat from China’s DeepSeek to the US supremacy in artificial intelligence.
US chipmaker Nvidia dived 17 per cent, wiping off nearly USD 593 billion in the biggest market capitalisation loss in history, following a wave of selling as China's DeepSeek developed a free AI assistant using lower-cost chips.
A major tech stock sell-off ensued Monday as the debut of DeepSeek rattled investors. Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft were among the biggest losers.
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and other chip stocks are gaining in premarket trading Tuesday, poised to recover some of the losses from Monday’s sharp sell-off.
Nvidia was falling early Friday as politicians and Big Tech firms comment on the effects of Chinese firm DeepSeek’s apparently low-cost AI.
Nvidia and other U.S. tech stocks are holding a bit steadier after tumbling the day before on doubts about whether the artificial-intelligence frenzy really needs all the dollars being poured into it