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King of Gluttony by Ana Huang

King of Gluttony by Ana Huang

Published by Jenni Sidey

When the sixth book in a hit romance series drops, the question is rarely whether readers will buy it. The question is whether the author can still surprise them. King of Gluttony by Ana Huang steps up to that challenge with a chef hero, a marketing executive heroine, and a forced collaboration that simmers across nine high-stakes months in New York and a few scorching detours along the way. This is the long-anticipated Sebastian Laurent and Maya Singh book, and longtime readers have been circling them since King of Sloth. Their dinner-table sniping, their bone-deep history, their shared appetite for winning at any cost: all of it has been brewing quietly in the background of the Kings of Sin universe. King of Gluttony by Ana Huang finally lets them off the leash, and the result is a book that mostly delivers, with a few hiccups that keep it from being a flawless meal. What the Story Cooks Up Maya Singh is the chief brand officer of Singh Foods, her family’s frozen-food empire. Sebastian Laurent runs …

Jensen Huang just put Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the trillion stratosphere

Jensen Huang just put Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere

Published by skeptic

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers — mostly of the technical variety — during his keynote Monday to kick off the company’s annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will be $1 trillion worth of orders for Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, a monetary reflection of a booming AI business. About an hour into his keynote, Huang noted that last year Nvidia saw about $500 billion in demand for its Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips through 2026. “Now, I don’t know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue,” he said. “Well, I’m here to tell you that right now where I stand — a few short months after GTC DC, one year after last GTC — right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion.” The Rubin computing chip architecture, which was first announced in 2024, has been described by Huang …

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Published by skeptic

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes. It could be that simple. While firms sometimes pile into companies until practically the eve of their public debut in search of more upside, Nvidia is minting money selling the chips that power both companies — it’s not like it needs to goose its returns by pouring even more money into either one. Nvidia, for its part, isn’t offering much elaboration. Asked for comment earlier today following Huang’s remarks, a spokesman pointed TechCrunch to a transcript from the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, where Huang said all of Nvidia’s investments are “focused very squarely, strategically on expanding and deepening our ecosystem reach,” a goal its earlier stakes in both companies have arguably met. Still, a few other dynamics might also explain the pullback, including the …

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

Published by skeptic

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production,” Huang said during a press event on Monday at the annual CES technology trade show in Las Vegas. Rubin will cut the cost of running AI models to about one-tenth of Nvidia’s current leading chip system, Blackwell, the company told analysts and journalists during a call on Sunday. Nvidia also said Rubin can train certain large models using roughly one-fourth as many chips as Blackwell requires. Taken together, those gains could make advanced AI systems significantly cheaper to operate and make it harder for Nvidia’s customers to justify moving away from its hardware. Nvidia said on the call that two of its existing partners, Microsoft and CoreWeave, will be among the first companies to begin offering services powered by Rubin chips later this year. Two major AI data centers that Microsoft is currently building in Georgia and Wisconsin …