Thursday, October 9, Nikkei 225, ASX

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open higher Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains as investors shrugged off concerns of an artificial intelligence bubble. Nvidia shares advanced Wednesday stateside after CEO Jensen Huang said that demand for AI computing is “substantially” up in the last six months. Stocks of CoreWeave also jumped after the AI cloud provider…

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CoreWeave CEO pushes back against circular investment concerns

In a interview Wednesday with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator brushed off concerns that the company’s deals with other artificial intelligence giants are circular investments, saying such a narrative is “fundamentally flawed.” “The reality of the situation is, really large, really important technology companies across the space are buying infrastructure to deliver it…

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Nvidia’s Huang surprised AMD offered 10% of company to OpenAI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that he’s surprised Advanced Micro Devices offered 10% of itself to OpenAI as part of a multibillion-dollar partnership announced earlier this week. “It’s imaginative, it’s unique and surprising, considering they were so excited about their next-generation product,” Huang said in an interview with “CNBC’s Squawk Box.” “I’m surprised that…

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‘At some point there’ll be too many’ AI data centers

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said Tuesday that while demand for computing power is “tremendous,” the production of artificial intelligence data centers will eventually top out. “I’m sure at some point there’ll be too many of these things built, but we don’t see any signs of that,” Dell said on “Closing Bell: Overtime.” The hardware…

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