Business & Industry

Business and Industry covers the commercial adoption of artificial intelligence across corporate sectors and economic markets. Truncated covers enterprise deployments, industry investments, market trends, workforce impacts and regulatory compliance.

Monday 9 November

Meet Jensen Huang, Nvidia's founder and CEO

AI-generated summary The artificial intelligence boom has driven high demand for chips supplied by Nvidia, which is led by founder and CEO Jensen Huang. Jensen Huang entered Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people in 2024 as business for Nvidia reached new heights.

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David Ellison says AI could be the ‘biggest creative unlock in modern history’

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AI-generated summary During an earnings call, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison stated that artificial intelligence could become the largest creative unlock in modern history while comparing its potential impact to the introduction of CGI in the early nineties. Ellison claims the tools will help make budgets more digestible for original storytelling and announced that Paramount Skydance is developing its own tools while emphasizing that the technology will never replace artists.

BlackRock: an AI spending slowdown in 2027 would hurt markets but could also lower yields

AI-generated summary BlackRock says the easy phase of the artificial intelligence trade is over as the investment story enters a more nuanced period focused on demand and adoption. BlackRock states that a potential slowdown in artificial intelligence spending in 2027 could harm equities while easing competition for capital and lowering bond yields.

Microsoft patent describes turning idle gaming GPUs into paid AI training hardware

AI-generated summary Microsoft has filed a patent detailing a system that would enable PC gamers to share idle GPU processing power for artificial intelligence training. The patent application describes monitoring hardware resources to distribute tasks and potentially compensating participating users with credits or money.

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JPMorganChase Broadens Claude Code Use Beyond Engineering Teams

AI-generated summary Anthropic announced that JPMorganChase is expanding the use of Claude beyond engineering teams into product development, infrastructure, risk assessments, and asset and wealth management. Anthropic says the expansion pairs broader employee access with strict limits, pipeline gates, and required human approval for every production change.

Meta's forecasts show it must raise hundreds of billions as soon as fall 2026

AI-generated summary Meta Platforms disclosed in a securities filing that internal forecasts presented to its board in May showed the company may need to raise hundreds of billions of dollars beginning as early as fall 2026 to fund artificial intelligence growth. The filing states that management wanted a new class of non-voting shares available to secure capital before competitors such as Alphabet, SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI saturate various funding options.

Huang’s future raises questions for AI infrastructure industry

AI-generated summary Nvidia said its board launched an independent investigation after reports linked CEO Jensen Huang to a former executive at Megaspeed International who U.S. authorities reportedly suspected of working for China. Nvidia stated that the board had no reason to believe national security or proprietary information had been compromised, and a company spokesperson said Jensen Huang will continue to lead Nvidia without interruption.

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Amazon Connect Customer launches evaluation form templates - AWS

AI-generated summary Amazon Web Services announces that Amazon Connect Customer now provides evaluation form templates to reduce the time needed to deploy automated evaluations of human and artificial intelligence agent performance. The new templates cover customer service, inbound sales, and self-service scenarios while assessing agent behaviors and business outcomes such as customer satisfaction and attrition risk.