Nvidia delivered another estimate-beating quarter, but regulatory setbacks and U.S.-China tensions are casting doubt over its core data center business even as Wall Street continues to demand more from the world’s most valuable public company. Revenue for the May–July quarter jumped 56 percent year-over-year to $46.7 billion, while net income climbed 59 percent to $26.4…
Serena Williams, the tennis legend turned businesswoman, has taken on a new role as global ambassador for Ro, the telehealth company best known for its weight loss treatments, including the increasingly popular GLP-1 injections. The partnership marks a high-profile breakthrough for the booming weight loss sector—and a family affair. Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is…
As if entering the workforce wasn’t daunting enough, the rise of generative A.I. is dampening the prospects of young workers across the U.S. Early-career workers aged 22 to 25 have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment across jobs most exposed to A.I., such as coding and customer service, according to a new Stanford…
It’s been a fiery few months for Starship, the 400-foot-tall SpaceX rocket at the heart of Elon Musk’s ambitions to colonize Mars. Several recent test flights ended in failure, with prototypes exploding or losing their upper-stage spacecraft. But at 7:30 p.m. ET last night (Aug. 26), SpaceX pulled off a stunning comeback, successfully completing its…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang finds himself in an increasingly difficult balancing act in China. After months of effort persuading President Trump to ease restrictions and allow the company to resume A.I. chip sales to the country, Huang was hit with an unexpected reversal: Last month, Chinese regulators moved to block Nvidia’s H20 chips, forcing the…
Perplexity AI, a startup that has previously come under fire from online publishers, is attempting to rebuild trust with media players through revenue-sharing agreements. But that effort hasn’t stopped complaints about how the company surfaces content. Its latest challenge comes from Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shumbun, which today (Aug. 26) filed a joint…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows a thing or two about spotting the next big wave. Back in the 2010s, when his company was still best-known for gaming hardware, he began steering it toward breakthroughs in A.I.—a gamble that transformed Nvidia into the world’s most valuable public company. Now, Huang has his sights set squarely on…
After a cooler-than-expected reception to GPT-5 and mounting pressure from rising training, compute and infrastructure costs, OpenAI is looking to India as a cornerstone of its global expansion strategy. On Friday, CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the company will open its first office in New Delhi later this year. He also said he…
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks, and Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of Elon Musk, make an unlikely duo. Their collaboration began in an even more unexpected setting: the annual Burning Man festival held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. It was there, in 2022, that Katzenberg first saw a light show by Musk’s drone entertainment…
This Q&A is part of Observer’s Expert Insights series, where industry leaders, innovators and strategists distill years of experience into direct, practical takeaways and deliver clarity on the issues shaping their industries. Twin sisters Shay and Shabnam Safarzadeh have built a career that defies easy categorization. Technologists, educators and philanthropists, they’ve made it their mission…
