Summary: an AI Super Pac, Technological Gains and Taylor Swift

Mid -period clock … The Wall Street Journal reported That Andreessen Horowitz and Greg Brockman of OpenAi are among those who have helped to launch a new super pac network, called leading the future. The approach, of course, is ai.

Ultimately, this is not a surprise: on the one hand, the $ 100 million already mobilized to shape the policy and regulation of AI feels a lot at most, but that number eclipses absolutely the billions of millions of A16z and that Openai has raised. The entanglement of the new companies, the rise of the AI ​​and the federal government seems ready to continue, even accelerate in the coming years. The real question, for me, is who, in the middle of the period, will arise as the new wave of the largest Washington defenders in AI.

Technological gains … There were many of them this week, from HP’s beating with a strong PC demand to Crowdstrike coverage expectations, but seeing that your stock falls into a soft guide for the year. The event of great tickets, of course, was Nvidia. The chips giant exceeded expectations in the results, but the guide was cautious and there were no Chinese sales sales to speak. (Recently, Nvidia and AMD reached an agreement with the United States government to sell chips in China, giving the government 15% of that income in return. Nvidia says that the agreement has not been completed.

My assumption? We will see some Chips sales from China soon from Nvidia, which could translate billions in revenues. I wonder how long it will remain and how resistant the demand of China will be, a firm country about the control of its own technological destination.

The wedding of the century … In fact, I think it is still too early to call the wedding of the century. After all, who knows where we will be in 50 years? LLMS could be celebrities by then, for what I know. But so far, at least in the United States, it is difficult to imagine a larger wedding than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

And yes, I know, they simply committed, but the commitment was really a minstrel of social networks never seen before: According to goalIts Instagram publication announcing the commitment, with Swift shining in a dress by Ralph Lauren, saw a million reposts in just six hours, a new record. (That Ralph Lauren dress too He sold out almost immediately.) I have been joking because I think Taylor Swift marrying is a bull market indicator, but perhaps like any decent joke, it is quite serious.

So, if you had a long week, take it out and I will see you on Tuesday.

Allie Garfinkle
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Email: Alexandra.garfinkle@fortune.com
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