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  1. Talk about a strong showing.
  2. During Nvidia's quarterly earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang offered a three-pronged argument to suggest that AI isn't a bubble.
  3. Asian chip stocks rose in early trading after American AI chip darling Nvidia beat earnings expectations in a strong sign for AI demand.
  4. Two months after announcing its blockbuster $100 billion agreement with OpenAI, Nvidia said in its quarterly report that an official deal is not guaranteed.
  5. The cybersecurity company said in July it would by Israeli cybersecurity provider CyberArk for $25 billion.
  6. Nvidia and xAI said a data center being built in Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips will count xAI as its first customer.
  7. Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving the company, marking an end of an era of pioneering computer science research at the Facebook parent.
  8. Block laid out long-term financial targets, projecting annual gross profit growth in the mid-teens through 2028.
  9. Kraken confidentially filed with federal regulators to go public in the U.S. after recently raising $800 million at a $20 billion valuation.
  10. ChatGPT for Teachers will be free to K-12 educators in the U.S. through June 2027