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The Company Behind the A.I. Boom

December 29, 2025·24 min·2 clips

Jensen Huang screamed at the journalist who questioned his utopian AI vision, exposing a raw divide in Silicon Valley.

David Remnick interviews tech journalist Stephen Witt about NVIDIA's dominance in AI hardware, exploring its origins, CEO Jensen Huang's utopian vision, and the geopolitical tensions with China. The conversation delves into AI's potential to automate labor, ethical debates, and how it might transform creative industries like writing.

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