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Trump snubs Jensen Huang for his trip to China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regularly appeared at formal White House functions and trips overseas with Trump. Nvidia is eager to sell its H200 chips to China.

Jon Keegan

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did everything that President Trump asked him to do: he popped in to Mar-a-Lago on several occasions, he flew to the UK and donned a formal tux at a royal banquet with King Charles, he joined Trump’s elite tech council, and he appeared at events with Trump in Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

This week, Trump will travel to China for a high-stakes meeting flanked by Tesla’s Elon Musk, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, and a bevy of other tech executives. But Huang will not be making the trip.

Huang told CNBC last week that it would be a “great honor” to make the trip to China with Trump, but Reuters reports that Huang was not invited, citing a source that said the White House is “focusing more on agriculture and commercial aviation matters” on this trip.

Nvidia has a lot riding on China as a potential market for its advanced H200 GPUs. After lots of back-and-forth over the past year, the Trump administration finally announced an unusual licensing scheme to allow limited sales of the chips (and similar offerings from peers like Advanced Micro Devices) to approved buyers in China — with the government getting a 25% cut of all sales.

Nvidia was said to have been ramping up production of the chips in anticipation of the new market, estimated to be worth $54 billion, but Chinese officials have blocked the import of the H200s, leaving the chip designer in the lurch despite strong demand from Chinese AI companies. The Financial Times reported that Nvidia recently told partner TSMC to halt production of the H200 upon China sales uncertainty (though it said it had ample supply), in favor of its most advanced Vera Rubin chips.

China, like other countries, is eager to boost its own domestic AI industry. Its technology is beginning to close the gap with competitive AI models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and new data centers full of Alibaba’s own Zhenwu chips.

On Nvidia’s last earnings call, CFO Colette Kress said the company was not certain it would be able to sell any H200s in China.

Nvidia reports its first-quarter FY2027 earnings on May 20.

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Reuters report pours water on Tesla’s Texas Robotaxi expansion

Nearly a month after Tesla announced that its Robotaxis had expanded to Houston and Dallas, reporters from Reuters say the service is still in a “beta-testing phase.”

They reported long wait times — when the service was available at all — and drop-offs that were 15-minute walks from the intended destination. In one instance, a reporter waited nearly two hours for a Robotaxi to arrive to take a trip that should have been a 20-minute drive, and after that long pickup wait time, experienced a circuitous route and a drop-off distant from the intended destination.

When the service launched in Houston and Dallas, we observed it included just one driverless Robotaxi in each. (Notably, the company’s existing services in Austin and the Bay Area still have safety monitors present on most rides.) Now, data from Robotaxi Tracker still shows a single driverless vehicle available in the past week in Dallas, and three in Houston.

As we noted during Tesla’s most recent earnings report, the company has updated its language around the half dozen markets it had planned to expand to in the first half of this year to say that “preparations [are] underway.”

Robotaxis, of course, are central to Tesla’s value proposition, which has pivoted from vehicles to autonomy and AI.

Tesla’s robotaxi rollout features Texas-sized wait times

Robotaxis, of course, are central to Tesla’s value proposition, which has pivoted from vehicles to autonomy and AI.

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Amazon rolls out 30-minute delivery in 4 cities with plans to expand to dozens more

Amazon is officially escalating the logistics arms race with the rollout of Amazon Now, a new service promising 30-minute delivery on thousands of grocery items and household essentials — Amazon mentioned AirPods, laundry detergent, and toothpaste — across dozens of US cities. Currently live in Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, and Philadelphia, the service leverages a network of hyperlocal micro-fulfillment centers “strategically placed close to where customers live and work” to bypass traditional shipping delays.

For orders more than $15, Prime members pay a $3.99 delivery fee per order, while non-Prime members pay $13.99. By targeting the “need it right now” market, Amazon is directly challenging the dominance of local convenience stores and quick-commerce rivals like Walmart and Instacart, betting that customers will pay a premium to have their impulse buys arrive before they even have time to rethink them.

This might trigger flashbacks for those who remember the dot-com bubble startups Webvan, which scheduled same-day grocery delivery in 30-minute intervals, or Kozmo.com, which offered one-hour delivery on convenient store basics and DVDs. The difference? While Webvan and Kozmo.com built their delivery networks from scratch before there was demand, Amazon is simply layering speed onto its already massive logistics engine and customer base.

Amazon Rolls Out Amazon Now to Dozens of Cities Across the U.S., Providing 30-Minute Delivery to Millions of Customers

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OpenAI employees are cashing out their shares, dozens making $30 million each

OpenAI’s planned IPO later this year is expected to be one of the largest of all time. Employees who got equity early on are sure to reap a windfall when the company shares hit the public markets.

Often these pre-IPO shares can’t be cashed in until the company goes public, and many startups have longer lockup periods before employees can sell their shares.

But The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI has a relatively short two-year vesting period, and the company allowed employees to sell shares before the IPO via a tender offer, as long as they’ve reached the two-year mark.

According to the report, in October, more than 600 current and former OpenAI employees sold shares through this process, minting a cluster of new multimillionaires. The Journal said about 75 of those walked away with $30 million (the maximum sale amount for this offer).

How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom

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Apple’s pie

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How much Apple’s biggest contribution to the AI boom matters for its sales

Hint: it’s not Siri and it’s not much.

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Intel pops on reported Apple chip deal

Intel soared more than 14% on a Wall Street Journal report saying the company has reached a preliminary agreement with Apple to manufacture chips for the iPhone maker. Intel, already on a tear as of late, jumped earlier this week when Bloomberg first reported the two companies were in talks. It’s still unclear which chips Intel would manufacture for Apple, which has been facing supply constraints for its iPhone as well other products.

In any case, the deal could help Apple ease supply constraints that have hit some of its products and reduce its reliance on longtime partner TSMC, as it aims to bring more chip manufacturing stateside.