Plus, Microsoft and Palantir will sell AI software to U.S. defense and intelligence departments

In mid-June, chipmaking darling Nvidia $NVDA was at its peak, trading at record-highs and briefly surpassing Apple $AAPL and Microsoft $MSFT to become the world’s most valuable public company. Since then, Nvidia’s market value has tumbled $900 billion.
Earlier this week, Nvidia’s stock fell after a report that shipments of its highly-anticipated Blackwell AI platform are delayed due to design flaws.
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Earlier this year, Nvidia $NVDA became the first chipmaker to reach a $2 trillion market cap, shortly joined the $3 trillion market cap club, and then surpassed both Apple $AAPL and Microsoft $MSFT to become the most valuable public company in the world. Since then, its value has tumbled $900 billion.

U.S. national security missions will soon get a boost from cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools from Microsoft $MSFT and Palantir $PLTR.

Some tech leaders see virtual assistants as the next phase of generative artificial intelligence — but one startup working on the idea is having a hard time selling it.

Nvidia $NVDA might be a dominant force in the market for artificial intelligence chips, but it’s struggling to meet soaring demand, and reportedly turning to Samsung to supply a key part of its chipset.

Redditors uncovered the set of prompts Apple $AAPL is using to instruct its suite of AI tools, Apple Intelligence.

The generative artificial intelligence boom is driving new business and stock performance for a major telecommunications company.

The Biden administration has now invested in all five of the world’s major chipmakers with its latest Chips and Science Act funding recipient.

Less than a day after one OpenAI co-founder filed a lawsuit against the startup and key executives, its president announced a months-long sabbatical and co-founder John Schulman revealed he would be joining rival artificial intelligence firm Anthropic.

Ratings and analytics company S&P Global $SPGI is partnering with consulting firm Accenture $ACN to train its staff to use generative artificial intelligence.

Five of the U.S.’s top election officials on Monday asked X $TWTR owner and chief technical officer Elon Musk to ensure his artificial intelligence chatbot stuck to the facts after it spread false information regarding Vice President Kamala Harris.

AI chipmaking startup Groq — not to be confused with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, spelled Grok — announced Monday that it’s secured another $640 million from BlackRock $BLK, Cisco $CSCO, and other investors.