Nvidia Hits Twelfth Dollar Market Cap

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Metropolitan Community College has a smart path forward. Nebraska High School students can graduate high school with college credits and knock out Gen Ed's early to wish him free. It's 10 AM in Kiv, it's a really loud night. A computer program is passing the bar exam and we are over here pretending not to be amazed by that. From the New York Times, it's the headline, story telling from serial productions in this American life. And some oil.

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?

Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.

Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

Today’s Guest:

Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.