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▶ 15:25 · AI Hardware & Chip Architecture · Per-gigawatt revenue metric signals Nvidia's pricing power from performance-per-watt gains
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The Information

Inside Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Buy, Nvidia Q2 Sales Double to $96.2B, Salesforce Shares Jump

2026-08-28 · 15 company · 10 thematic
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ray wong

Technology analyst and CEO of Constellation Research; provides equity research-style analysis on AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and cloud computing.

valita pow

Covers M&A and venture capital deals for The Information; broke the Nvidia-Hugging Face acquisition story and SoftBank-1X deal.

jackson ader

Covers ~100 software companies; analyzes Q2 earnings, M&A landscape (sharks and minnows), and Salesforce's Agentforce trajectory.

laura bratton

Writes the Applied AI newsletter for The Information, reporting on enterprise AI adoption, coding agents, and frontier model competition.

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