Wall St. Scrutinizes Nvidias Deal Machine

ImageAndrew here.Watch this space: Meta is said to be in talks to settle a major lawsuit over teens and social media.

The discussions, first reported by Bloomberg, come in the second week of a jury trial over whether Meta designed its platforms to be addictive to young people.The 29 states behind the suit are seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.Any settlement could be a watershed moment for tech, rewriting how social media companies interact with teenagers and younger people.

ImageInside the central bank of A.I.Wall Street will be paying close attention when Nvidia reports earnings on Wednesday, looking for clues about the future of the artificial intelligence boom.But beyond the quarterly numbers, investors will scrutinize Nvidia’s expanding portfolio of A.I.investments as skeptics question the company’s efforts to undergird the industry’s trillion-dollar ecosystem.

Sri Muppidi digs into the details.Nvidia has ramped up its investments in start-ups, money that could then be spent on its own chips.Those deals are made through its corporate development arm and a venture capital arm, NVentures.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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