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☆ Why Walmart's quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Michelle Castillo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

During a call with analysts after its February earnings, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon talked about the gen AI search capabilities in its app. As a technology company, Walmart has to experiment a lot, and in the case of adding generative AI search capabilities, there's a very low cost for failure, she said. AI and search, shopping business model shiftsIt's not only Walmart investing in this type of search in the retail sector. Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus lets people have a conversation with the platform about what they need rather than just looking for direct items. "Google is anxious is about search in general, and the question this raises is will it be a death by a thousand cuts for Google Search?"

Persons: Doug McMillon, McMillon, Marc Lore, Sucharita Kodali, Kodali, Sergey Brin, Brin, Rufus, Jacob Bourne, Bourne, it's Organizations: Google, Walmart, Amazon, Insider Intelligence, Ikea, Lowe's

☆ Rivian is slashing 10% of staff. Read the email it sent to its workers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite doubling its EV deliveries in 2023, Rivian reported a $5.4 billion loss for the year. In an email to Business Insider, Rivian did not specify exactly how many salaried staff members would be cut, but said that it has 16,700 total employees, including both salaried and hourly workers. Here's the full email that Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe sent out to staff on Wednesday, announcing that layoffs would be coming on Thursday. Tomorrow, we're reducing our salaried employees by approximately 10% along with a limited number of non-manufacturing hourly employees. Also, anyone impacted tomorrow will still be eligible for our FY'23 bonus.

Persons: Rivian, Claire McDonough, Jacob Bourne, Bourne, Tesla, Scaringe, RJ Scaringe Organizations: Bloomberg, Business, Intelligence, Ford, General Motors, Dealers

A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. But the red-hot market for AI chips is playing out in the context of vastly expanded U.S. export controls on what Nvidia can sell to China. Jacob Bourne, analyst at Insider Intelligence, said that those China-focused chips could consume vital research resources at Nvidia for products that could end up banned just like its first round of China market chips. Rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) had earlier touted the quantity of high-bandwidth memory on one of its competing AI chips. Chinese tech company Huawei's (HWT.UL) AI chip is also gaining traction from local firms as U.S. pressure makes it hard to access Nvidia chips.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Nvidia, Jesse Cohen, Colette Kress, Jacob Bourne, Bourne, Chavi Mehta, Max A, Stephen Nellis, Arun Koyyur, Sayantani Ghosh, Matthew Lewis Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Wall, Nvidia, LSEG, Insider Intelligence, Devices, Google, Microsoft, San, Thomson Locations: China, Israel, Gaza, United States, Bengaluru, Max, San Francisco

New York CNN —The stock market has boomed this year, and one big reason is a company without much name recognition — unless you’re a hard core video gamer. Nvidia (NVDA) has surged 222% this year, including a 3% bump Thursday following super impressive earnings. But Nvidia is by far the most sought-after AI stock. Revenue went from $6.7 billion in the second quarter last year to $13.5 billion this year. The results were even stronger than the $11.2 billion in revenue that Wall Street analysts expected.

Persons: it’s, Jacob Bourne, Raj Joshi Organizations: New, New York CNN, Nvidia, Meta, Nasdaq, Revenue, Wall, Federal Reserve, ”, Intelligence, Moody’s Investors Service Locations: New York, Santa Clara , California

☆ Nvidia's forecast lifts AI stocks and Nasdaq futures
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Noel Randewich | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

S&P 500 E-Mini futures rose 0.5% and Nasdaq E-Mini futures climbed 0.9%, suggesting Wall Street is likely to open with gains on Thursday. Investors this week had anticipated Nvidia's results report as a potential spark to reignite gains in a sluggish U.S. stock market. Nvidia's forecast added to investor optimism. Big Tech and AI-related stocks saw their stock market values increase by over $70 billion, on top of Nvidia's increased value, as their shares climbed following the report. Nvidia forecast third-quarter revenue of about $16 billion, plus or minus 2%.

Persons: Ann Wang, Jacob Bourne, Noel Randewich, Chavi Mehta, David Gregorio, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, Santa, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Intelligence, Big Tech, Microsoft, Google, Palantir Technologies, Devices, Broadcom, Marvell Technology, Micro, Refinitiv, Thomson Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, U.S, Santa Clara , California, Oakland, Calif, Bangalore

New York CNN —The artificial intelligence boom continues to fuel a blockbuster year for chipmaker Nvidia. Nvidia expects revenue to be even higher in the current quarter: forecasting revenue of $16 billion for its fiscal third quarter. Nvidia’s stock has climbed by just over 220% since the start of this year amid a surge in the popularity of and demand for artificial intelligence technology. The American chipmaker produces processors that power generative AI, technology that can create text, images and other media — and which forms the foundation of buzzy new services such as ChatGPT. Companies worldwide are transitioning from general-purpose to accelerated computing and generative AI,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement, adding that the company is working with “Leading enterprise IT system and software providers … to bring NVIDIA AI to every industry.”“The race is on to adopt generative AI,” he said.

Persons: Zakaria, ”, Colette Kress, Jensen Huang, Huang, Jacob Bourne, “, ” Kress Organizations: CNN, Intelligence, New, New York CNN, Nvidia, Santa, Wall, Companies, NVIDIA, ” Locations: New York, Santa Clara , California

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